Falling; subsiding; depressing; declining. sinking fund, in fiance, a fund created for sinking or paying a public debt, or purchasing the stock for the government.
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Sinking
Webster's Dictionary 1913
a. & n. from Sink.
Sinking fund
Encyclopedia Britannica
SINKING FUND. See National Debt, vol. xvii. p. 245.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 22, p. 94
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And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.