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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Nether :: Nether (a.) Situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower part; having a lower position; belonging to the region below; lower; under; -- opposed to upper..
Upsodown :: Upsodown (adv.) Upside down.
Obversion :: Obversion (n.) The act of turning toward or downward.
Dismantle :: Dismantle (v. t.) To strip of furniture and equipments, guns, etc.; to unrig; to strip of walls or outworks; to break down; as, to dismantle a fort, a town, or a ship..
Place :: Place (n.) To attribute; to ascribe; to set down.
Couchant :: Couchant (v. t.) Lying down with head erect; squatting.
Coasting :: Coasting (n.) Sliding down hill; sliding on a sled upon snow or ice.
Bobstay :: Bobstay (n.) A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl.
Downtrod :: Downtrod (a.) Alt. of Downtrodde.
Abject :: Abject (a.) Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts..
Nicker :: Nicker (v. t.) The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.
Bluff-headed :: Bluff-headed (a.) Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.
Devolution :: Devolution (n.) The act of rolling down.
Annihilate :: Annihilate (v. t.) To destroy the form or peculiar distinctive properties of, so that the specific thing no longer exists; as, to annihilate a forest by cutting down the trees..
Seat :: Seat (v. i.) To rest; to lie down.
Vert :: Vert (n.) The color green, represented in a drawing or engraving by parallel lines sloping downward toward the right..
Mollipilose :: Mollipilose (a.) Having soft hairs; downy.
Downright :: Downright (adv.) In plain terms; without ceremony.
Retrorse :: Retrorse (a.) Bent backward or downward.
Slatting :: Slatting (n.) The violent shaking or flapping of anything hanging loose in the wind, as of a sail, when being hauled down..
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