DEPTH, n. 1. Deepness; the distance or measure of a thing from the surface to the bottom, or to the extreme part downwards or inwards. The depth of a river may be ten feet. The depth of the ocean is unfathomable. The depth of a wound may be an inch. In a vertical direction, depth is opposed to highth.2. A deep place.3. The sea, the ocean.The depth closed me round about. Jonah 2.4. The abyss; a gulf of infinite profundity.When he set a compass on the face of the depth. Prov. 8.5. The middle or highth of a season, as the depth of winter; or the middle, the darkest or stillest part, as the depth of night; or the inner part, a part remote from the border, as the depth of a wood or forest.6. Abstruseness; obscurity; that which is not easily explored; as the depth of a science.7. Unsearchableness; infinity.O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God. Rom 11.8. The breadth and depth of the love of Christ, are its vast extent.9. Profoundness; extent of penetration, or of the capacity of penetrating; as depth of understanding; depth of skill.10. The depth of a squadron or battalion, is the number of men in a file, which forms the extent from the front to the rear; as a depth of three men or six men.11. Depth of a sail, the extent of the square sails from the head-rope to the foot-rope, or the length of the after-leech of a stay-sail or boom-sail. |
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