DOWN
DOWN, noun1. The fine soft feathers of fowls, particularly of the duck kind. The eider duck yields the best kind. Also, fine hair; as the down of the chin.2. The pubescence of p...
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DOWN-BED
DOWN-BED, noun A bed of down.
DOWN-HAUL
DOWN-HAUL, noun In seamens language, a rope passing along a stay, through the cringles of the stay-sail or jib, and made fast to the upper corner of the sail, to haul it down.
DOWN-SITTING
DOWN-SITTING, noun The act of sitting down; repose; a resting.Thou knowest my down-sitting and my uprising. Psalms 139:1.
DOWNCAST
DOWNCAST, adjective Cast downward; directed to the ground; as a downcast eye or look, indicating bashfulness, modesty or dejection of mind.DOWNCAST, noun Sadness; melancholy look.
DOWNED
DOWNED, adjective Covered or stuffed with down.
DOWNFALL
DOWNFALL, noun1. A falling, or body of things falling; as the downfall of a flood.2. Ruin; destruction; a sudden fall; or ruin by violence, in distinction from slow decay or dec...
DOWNFALLEN
DOWNFALLEN, adjective Fallen; ruined.
DOWNGYVED
DOWNGYVED, adjective Hanging down like the loose cincture of fetters.
DOWNHEARTED
DOWNHEARTED, adjective Dejected in spirits.
DOWNHILL
DOWNHILL, noun Declivity; descent; slope.And though tis downhill all.DOWNHILL, adjective Declivous; descending; sloping.A downhill greensward.
DOWNLOOKED
DOWNLOOKED, adjective Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen; as jealousy downlooked
DOWNLYING
DOWNLYING, noun The time of retiring to rest; time of repose.DOWNLYING, adjective About to be in travel of childbirth.
DOWNRIGHT
DOWNRIGHT, adverb1. Right down; straight down; perpendicularly.A giant cleft downright2. In plain terms; without ceremony or circumlocution.We shall chide downright3. Completely...
DOWNRIGHTLY
DOWNRIGHTLY, adverb Plainly; in plain terms; bluntly.
DOWNTROD
DOWNTROD, DOWNTRODDEN, adjective Trodden down; trampled down.
DOWNTRODDEN
DOWNTROD, DOWNTRODDEN adjective Trodden down; trampled down.
DOWNWARD
DOWNWARD, DOWNWARDS, adverb [See Ward.]
DOWNWARDS
DOWNWARD, DOWNWARDS adverb [See Ward.]1. From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course, whether directly toward the center of the earth, or not; as, to tend downward; t...
DOWNWEED
DOWNWEED, noun Cottonweed, a downy plant.
DOWNY
DOWNY, adjective [See Down.]1. Covered with down or nap; as a downy feather; downy wings.2. Covered with pubescence or soft hairs, as a plant.3. Made of down or soft feathers; a...
DOWRY
DOWRY, noun [See Dower. This word differs not from dower. It is the same word differently written, and the distinction made between them is arbitrary.]1. The money, goods or est...
DOWSE
DOWSE, verb transitive To strike on the face. [Not in use.]
DOWST
DOWST, noun A stroke. [Not in use.]
DOXOLOGICAL
DOXOLOGICAL, adjective Pertaining to doxology; giving praise to God.
DOXOLOGY
DOXOLOGY, noun [Gr., praise, glory; to speak.] In Christian worship, a hymn in praise of the Almighty; a particular form of giving glory to God.
DOXY
DOXY, noun A prostitute.