Downlying
(Down"ly`ing) n. The time of retiring to rest; time of repose. Cavendish.
At the downlying,
at the travail in childbirth. [Scot.]
Downpour
(Down"pour`) n. A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.
Downright
(Down"right`) adv.
1. Straight down; perpendicularly.
2. In plain terms; without ceremony.
We shall chide downright, if I longer stay.
Shak. 3. Without delay; at once; completely. [Obs.]
She fell downright into a fit.
Arbuthnot. Downright
(Down"right`), a.
1. Plain; direct; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way.
A man of plain, downright character.
Sir W. Scott. 2. Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as, downright atheism.
The downright impossibilities charged upon it.
South.
Gloomy fancies which in her amounted to downright insanity.
Prescott. — Down"right`ly, adv. — Down"right`ness, n.
Down-share
(Down"-share`) n. A breastplow used in paring off turf on downs. [Eng.] Knight.
Downsitting
(Down"sit`ting) n. The act of sitting down; repose; a resting.
Thou knowest my downsitting and my uprising.
Ps. cxxxix. 2. Downstairs
(Down"stairs) adv. Down the stairs; to a lower floor. — a. Below stairs; as, a downstairs
room.
Downsteepy
(Down"steep`y) a. Very steep. [Obs.] Florio.
Downstream
(Down"stream`) adv. Down the stream; as, floating downstream.
Downstroke
(Down"stroke`) n. (Penmanship) A stroke made with a downward motion of the pen or
pencil.
Downthrow
(Down"throw`) n. (Geol.) The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one
side of a fault. See Throw, n.
Downtrod
(Down"trod` Down"trod`den) a. Trodden down; trampled down; abused by superior power. Shak.
Downward
(Down"ward Down"wards) adv. [AS. adnweard. See Down, adv., and -ward.]