Definition of downward

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Downward (adv.) Alt. of Downward.

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Prone :: Prone (a.) Headlong; running downward or headlong.
Deflux :: Deflux (n.) Downward flow.
Descent :: Descent (n.) Lowest place; extreme downward place.
Renverse :: Renverse (a.) Reversed; set with the head downward; turned contrary to the natural position.
Downward :: Downward (a.) Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous..
Duck :: Duck (v. t.) To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion.
Nod :: Nod (n.) A quick or slight downward or forward motion of the head, in assent, in familiar salutation, in drowsiness, or in giving a signal, or a command..
Down :: Down (a.) Downward; going down; sloping; as, a down stroke; a down grade; a down train on a railway..
Verge :: Verge (v. i.) To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north..
Dip :: Dip (v. i.) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip..
Circinate :: Circinate (a.) Rolled together downward, the tip occupying the center; -- a term used in reference to foliation or leafing, as in ferns..
Cata :: Cata () The Latin and English form of a Greek preposition, used as a prefix to signify down, downward, under, against, contrary or opposed to, wholly, completely; as in cataclysm, catarrh. It sometimes drops the final vowel, as in catoptric; and is sometimes changed to cath, as in cathartic, catholic..
Subside :: Subside (v. i.) To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink.
Descent :: Descent (n.) The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower..
Downcome :: Downcome (n.) A pipe for leading combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned..
Gradient :: Gradient (n.) A part of a road which slopes upward or downward; a portion of a way not level; a grade.
Metacromion :: Metacromion (n.) A process projecting backward and downward from the acromion of the scapula of some mammals.
Top-shaped :: Top-shaped (a.) Having the shape of a top; (Bot.) cone-shaped, with the apex downward; turbinate..
Drop :: Drop (n.) A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, the gallows itself..
Synclinal :: Synclinal (a.) Inclined downward from opposite directions, so as to meet in a common point or line..
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