Adown :: Adown (adv.) From a higher to a lower situation; downward; down, to or on the ground..

Adown :: Adown (prep.) Down.

Backdown :: Backdown (n.) A receding or giving up; a complete surrender.

Basedow''s Disease :: Basedow's disease () A disease characterized by enlargement of the thyroid gland, prominence of the eyeballs, and inordinate action of the heart; -- called also exophthalmic goiter..

Bay Window :: Bay window () A window forming a bay or recess in a room, and projecting outward from the wall, either in a rectangular, polygonal, or semicircular form; -- often corruptly called a bow window..

Breakdown :: Breakdown (n.) The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall..

Breakdown :: Breakdown (n.) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down..

Breakdown :: Breakdown (n.) Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time..

Caddow :: Caddow (n.) A jackdaw.

Catch-meadow :: Catch-meadow (n.) A meadow irrigated by water from a spring or rivulet on the side of hill.

Chuck-will''s-widow :: Chuck-Will's-widow (n.) A species of goatsucker (Antrostomus Carolinensis), of the southern United States; -- so called from its note..

Comedown :: Comedown (n.) A downfall; an humiliation.

Disendow :: Disendow (v. t.) To deprive of an endowment, as a church..

Disendowment :: Disendowment (n.) The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.

Disshadow :: Disshadow (v. t.) To free from shadow or shade.

Dormer Window :: Dormer window (n.) A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained..

Dow :: Dow (n.) A kind of vessel. See Dhow.

Dow :: Dow (v. t.) To furnish with a dower; to endow.

Dowable :: Dowable (v. t.) Capable of being endowed; entitled to dower.

Dowager :: Dowager (n.) A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease..

Dowager :: Dowager (n.) A title given in England to a widow, to distinguish her from the wife of her husband's heir bearing the same name; -- chiefly applied to widows of personages of rank..

Dowagerism :: Dowagerism (n.) The rank or condition of a dowager; formality, as that of a dowager. Also used figuratively..

Dowcet :: Dowcet (n.) One of the testicles of a hart or stag.

Dowdies :: Dowdies (pl. ) of Dowd.

Dowdy :: Dowdy (superl.) Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking.

Dowdy :: Dowdy (n.) An awkward, vulgarly dressed, inelegant woman..

Dowdyish :: Dowdyish (a.) Like a dowdy.

Dowel :: Dowel (n.) A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position..

Dowel :: Dowel (n.) A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may be nailed to it..

Dowel :: Dowel (v. t.) To fasten together by dowels; to furnish with dowels; as, a cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask..

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