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Deflected :: Deflected (a.) Bent downward; deflexed.

Descension :: Descension (n.) The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation.

Upsidown :: Upsidown (adv.) See Upsodown.

Buck :: Buck (v. i.) To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule..

Coasting :: Coasting (n.) Sliding down hill; sliding on a sled upon snow or ice.

Quash :: Quash (v. t.) To beat down, or beat in pieces; to dash forcibly; to crush..

Hagdon :: Hagdon (n.) One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus; esp., P. major, the greater shearwarter, and P. Stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater; -- called also hagdown, haglin, and hag. See Shearwater..

Down :: Down (adv.) Hence: Towards the mouth of a river; towards the sea; as, to sail or swim down a stream; to sail down the sound..

Droop :: Droop (v. i.) To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline..

Pricksong :: Pricksong (v. t.) Music written, or noted, with dots or points; -- so called from the points or dots with which it is noted down..

Decline :: Decline (v. i.) To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend..

Chop :: Chop (v. t.) To sever or separate by one more blows of a sharp instrument; to divide; -- usually with off or down.

Pilose :: Pilose (a.) Clothed thickly with pile or soft down.

Cathetometer :: Cathetometer (n.) An instrument for the accurate measurement of small differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces of two columns of mercury or other fluid, or of the same column at different times. It consists of a telescopic leveling apparatus (d), which slides up or down a perpendicular metallic standard very finely graduated (bb). The telescope is raised or depressed in order to sight the objects or surfaces, and the differences in vertical height are th

Abased :: Abased (a.) Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield..

Lodged :: Lodged (a.) Lying down; -- used of beasts of the chase, as couchant is of beasts of prey..

Subside :: Subside (v. i.) To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink.

Declivous :: Declivous (a.) Descending gradually; moderately steep; sloping; downhill.

Wedge-shaped :: Wedge-shaped (a.) Broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down to the base; as, a wedge-shaped leaf..

Feather :: Feather (n.) One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down..

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