Definition of down

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Down (adv.) In the direction of gravity or toward the center of the earth; toward or in a lower place or position; below; -- the opposite of up.

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Flat :: Flat (superl.) Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
Decumbent :: Decumbent (a.) Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.
Down :: Down (a.) Downright; absolute; positive; as, a down denial..
Landowning :: Landowning (n.) The owning of land.
Serricated :: Serricated (a.) Covered with fine silky down.
Pitch :: Pitch (n.) A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them..
Ram :: Ram (n.) A heavy steel or iron beak attached to the prow of a steam war vessel for piercing or cutting down the vessel of an enemy; also, a vessel carrying such a beak..
Downfall :: Downfall (n.) A sudden fall; a body of things falling.
Proponent :: Proponent (n.) One who makes a proposal, or lays down a proposition..
Milkweed :: Milkweed (n.) Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge..
Pilose :: Pilose (a.) Clothed thickly with pile or soft down.
Decline :: Decline (v. t.) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall..
Crouch :: Crouch (v. i.) To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear..
Lock-down :: Lock-down (n.) A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting; -- used by lumbermen.
Knockdown :: Knockdown (a.) Of force sufficient to fell or completely overthrow; as, a knockdown blow; a knockdown argument..
Rebuke :: Rebuke (v. t.) To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove; to admonish..
Piligerous :: Piligerous (a.) Bearing hair; covered with hair or down; piliferous.
Jolt :: "Jolt (v. t.) To cause to shake with a sudden up and down motion, as in a carriage going over rough ground, or on a high-trotting horse; as, the horse jolts the rider; fast driving jolts the carriage and the passengers..
Protractor :: Protractor (n.) A mathematical instrument for laying down and measuring angles on paper, used in drawing or in plotting. It is of various forms, semicircular, rectangular, or circular..
Trail :: Trail (v. t.) To tread down, as grass, by walking through it; to lay flat..
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