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Downward :: Downward (a.) Descending from a head, origin, or source; as, a downward line of descent..

Demit :: Demit (v. t.) To lay down, as an office; to resign..

Mangrove :: Mangrove (n.) The name of one or two trees of the genus Rhizophora (R. Mangle, and R. mucronata, the last doubtfully distinct) inhabiting muddy shores of tropical regions, where they spread by emitting aerial roots, which fasten in the saline mire and eventually become new stems. The seeds also send down a strong root while yet attached to the parent plant..

Downsitting :: Downsitting (n.) The act of sitting down; repose; a resting.

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..

Denutrition :: Denutrition (n.) The opposition of nutrition; the failure of nutrition causing the breaking down of tissue.

Water Spider :: Water spider () An aquatic European spider (Argyoneta aquatica) which constructs its web beneath the surface of the water on water plants. It lives in a bell-shaped structure of silk, open beneath like a diving bell, and filled with air which the spider carries down in the form of small bubbles attached one at a time to the spinnerets and hind feet. Called also diving spider..

Obovate :: Obovate (a.) Inversely ovate; ovate with the narrow end downward; as, an obovate leaf..

Spike :: Spike (v. t.) To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks..

Cathetometer :: Cathetometer (n.) An instrument for the accurate measurement of small differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces of two columns of mercury or other fluid, or of the same column at different times. It consists of a telescopic leveling apparatus (d), which slides up or down a perpendicular metallic standard very finely graduated (bb). The telescope is raised or depressed in order to sight the objects or surfaces, and the differences in vertical height are th

Jiggle :: Jiggle (v. i.) To wriggle or frisk about; to move awkwardly; to shake up and down.

Devolution :: Devolution (n.) The act of rolling down.

Toboggan :: Toboggan (v. i.) To slide down hill over the snow or ice on a toboggan.

Cross-reading :: Cross-reading (n.) The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns, thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas..

Sagittate :: Sagittate (a.) Shaped like an arrowhead; triangular, with the two basal angles prolonged downward..

Writable :: Writable (a.) Capable of, or suitable for, being written down..

Windfall :: Windfall (n.) Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a tree, or the tree itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a violent wind, etc..

Drawbridge :: Drawbridge (n.) A bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal..

Depressor :: Depressor (n.) A muscle that depresses or tends to draw down a part.

Knockdown :: Knockdown (n.) A felling by a knock, as of a combatant, or of an animal..

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