[f. SUBSIDE v. + -ING2.] That subsides, in various senses of the verb.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 68. The subsiding powder dryed, retaines some magneticall vertue.
1694. Salmon, Bate’s Dispens. (1713), 353/1. Edulcorate the subsiding Pouder, by many affusions of fair Water.
1700. Dryden, Iliad, I. 711. With Terror trembled Heav’ns subsiding Hill.
1769. E. Bancroft, Guiana, 279. The liquor is decanted from the subsiding bread, and drank.
1779. Mirror, No. 66. Specifying … the subsiding state of her affections towards them.
1839. Darwin, Voy. Nat., xxii. 561. That class of widely-encircling reefs, which indicate a subsiding land.
1889. Ld. Lytton, Lett. to W. Ward, 25 Sept. The after effects of its subsiding eddies.
