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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Turn :: Turn (v. i.) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery..
Dandle :: Dandle (v. t.) To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, as an infant..
Decubation :: Decubation (n.) Act of lying down; decumbence.
Badger :: Badger (v. t.) To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.
Flat :: Flat (superl.) Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
Traduce :: Traduce (v. t.) To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants..
Delapsion :: Delapsion (n.) A falling down, or out of place; prolapsion..
Couch :: Couch (v. i.) To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly.
Flocculent :: Flocculent (a.) Applied to the down of newly hatched or unfledged birds.
Slouch :: Slouch (v. t.) To cause to hang down; to depress at the side; as, to slouth the hat..
Flatlong :: Flatlong (adv.) With the flat side downward; not edgewise.
Depose :: Depose (v. t.) To lay down; to divest one's self of; to lay aside.
Saree :: Saree (n.) The principal garment of a Hindoo woman. It consists of a long piece of cloth, which is wrapped round the middle of the body, a portion being arranged to hang down in front, and the remainder passed across the bosom over the left shoulder..
Kneel :: Kneel (v. i.) To bend the knee; to fall or rest on the knees; -- sometimes with down.
Ninepins :: Ninepins (n. pl.) A game played with nine pins, or pieces of wood, set on end, at which a wooden ball is bowled to knock them down; bowling..
Sarsen :: Sarsen (n.) One of the large sandstone blocks scattered over the English chalk downs; -- called also sarsen stone, and Druid stone..
Crash :: Crash (n.) Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise..
Garter :: Garter (n.) A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg.
Dejecter :: Dejecter (n.) One who casts down, or dejects..
Tempering :: Tempering (n.) The process of giving the requisite degree of hardness or softness to a substance, as iron and steel; especially, the process of giving to steel the degree of hardness required for various purposes, consisting usually in first plunging the article, when heated to redness, in cold water or other liquid, to give an excess of hardness, and then reheating it gradually until the hardness is reduced or drawn down to the degree required, as indicated by the color produced on a polished p
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