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Downfall :: Downfall (n.) A sudden fall; a body of things falling.

Downbear :: Downbear (v. t.) To bear down; to depress.

Tail :: Tail (n.) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.

Downsteepy :: Downsteepy (a.) Very steep.

Even :: Even (a.) Up to, or down to, an unusual measure or level; so much as; fully; quite..

Squelch :: Squelch (v. t.) To quell; to crush; to silence or put down.

Deposit :: Deposit (n.) To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich alluvium..

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

Mantilla :: Mantilla (n.) A kind of veil, covering the head and falling down upon the shoulders; -- worn in Spain, Mexico, etc..

Degradation :: Degradation (n.) A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc..

Collapse :: Collapse (n.) A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.

Abature :: Abature (n.) Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them.

Toy :: Toy (v. t.) A headdress of linen or woolen, that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; -- called also toy mutch..

Downstairs :: Downstairs (adv.) Down the stairs; to a lower floor.

Hyponastic :: Hyponastic (a.) Exhibiting a downward convexity caused by unequal growth. Cf. Epinastic.

Retardation :: Retardation (n.) The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards.

Ruin :: Ruin (n.) That which is fallen down and become worthless from injury or decay; as, his mind is a ruin; especially, in the plural, the remains of a destroyed, dilapidated, or desolate house, fortress, city, or the like..

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..

Seesaw :: Seesaw (n.) A play among children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down..

Swanskin :: Swanskin (n.) The act of a swan with the down or the feathers on.

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