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- English Word Down Definition In a low or the lowest position, literally or figuratively; at the bottom of a decent; below the horizon; of the ground; in a condition of humility, dejection, misery, and the like; in a state of quiet.
- English Word Down Definition From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- English Word Down Definition From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence; as, to boil down in cookery, or in making decoctions.
- English Word Down Definition In a descending direction along; from a higher to a lower place upon or within; at a lower place in or on; as, down a hill; down a well.
- English Word Down Definition Hence: Towards the mouth of a river; towards the sea; as, to sail or swim down a stream; to sail down the sound.
- English Word Down Definition To cause to go down; to make descend; to put down; to overthrow, as in wrestling; hence, to subdue; to bring down.
- English Word Down Definition To go down; to descend.
- English Word Down Definition Downcast; as, a down look.
- English Word Down Definition Downright; absolute; positive; as, a down denial.
- English Word Down Definition Downward; going down; sloping; as, a down stroke; a down grade; a down train on a railway.
- English Word Down-share Definition A breastplow used in paring off turf on downs.
- English Word Downbear Definition To bear down; to depress.
- English Word Downcast Definition Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt.
- English Word Downcast Definition Downcast or melancholy look.
- English Word Downcast Definition A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.
- English Word Downcome Definition Sudden fall; downfall; overthrow.
- English Word Downcome Definition A pipe for leading combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned.
- English Word Downed Definition of Down
- English Word Downfall Definition A sudden fall; a body of things falling.
- English Word Downfall Definition A sudden descent from rank or state, reputation or happiness; destruction; ruin.
- English Word Downfallen Definition Fallen; ruined.
- English Word Downfalling Definition Falling down.
- English Word Downgyved Definition Hanging down like gyves or fetters.
- English Word Downhaul Definition A rope to haul down, or to assist in hauling down, a sail; as, a staysail downhaul; a trysail downhaul.
- English Word Downhearted Definition Dejected; low-spirited.
- English Word Downhill Definition Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill.
- English Word Downhill Definition Declivous; descending; sloping.
- English Word Downhill Definition Declivity; descent; slope.
- English Word Downiness Definition The quality or state of being downy.
- English Word Downing Definition of Down