Definition of down

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Down (prep.) A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war..

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Depress :: Depress (v. t.) To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes..
Sheer :: Sheer (v. i.) Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular.
Sober :: Sober (v. i.) To become sober; -- often with down.
Stump :: Stump (n.) To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket..
Downsitting :: Downsitting (n.) The act of sitting down; repose; a resting.
Hail :: Hail (v. i.) To pour down particles of ice, or frozen vapors..
Landowning :: Landowning (n.) The owning of land.
Weight :: Weight (v. t.) To load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle..
Downhill :: Downhill (n.) Declivity; descent; slope.
Puberulent :: Puberulent (a.) Very minutely downy.
Grind :: Grind (v. t.) To wear down, polish, or sharpen, by friction; to make smooth, sharp, or pointed; to whet, as a knife or drill; to rub against one another, as teeth, etc..
Lop :: Lop (v. i.) To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
Lop :: Lop (v. t.) To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge..
Biffin :: Biffin (n.) A baked apple pressed down into a flat, round cake; a dried apple..
Rivet :: Rivet (n.) A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down the point so that it shall spread out and form a second head; a pin or bolt headed or clinched at both ends..
Couchant :: Couchant (v. t.) Lying down with head erect; squatting.
Outlook :: Outlook (v. t.) To face down; to outstare.
Stub :: Stub (n.) The stump of a tree; that part of a tree or plant which remains fixed in the earth when the stem is cut down; -- applied especially to the stump of a small tree, or shrub..
Decrial :: Decrial (n.) A crying down; a clamorous censure; condemnation by censure.
Lop :: Lop (v. t.) To let hang down; as, to lop the head..
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