Part 505

It will be rain to-night. Let it come down.

Shak.

I sit me down beside the hazel grove.

Tennyson.

And that drags down his life.

Tennyson.

There is not a more melancholy object in the learned world than a man who has written himself down.

Addison.

The French . . . shone down [i. e., outshone] the English.

Shak.

(b) In a low or the lowest position, literally or figuratively; at the bottom of a descent; below the horizon; on the ground; in a condition of humility, dejection, misery, and the like; in a state of quiet.

I was down and out of breath.

Shak.

The moon is down; I have not heard the clock.

Shak.

He that is down needs fear no fall.

Bunyan.

3. From a remoter or higher antiquity.

Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation.

D. Webster.

4. From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence; as, to boil down in cookery, or in making decoctions. Arbuthnot.

Down is sometimes used elliptically, standing for go down, come down, tear down, take down, put down, haul down, pay down, and the like, especially in command or exclamation.

Down, therefore, and beg mercy of the duke.

Shak.

If he be hungry more than wanton, bread alone will down.

Locke.

Down is also used intensively; as, to be loaded down; to fall down; to hang down; to drop down; to pay down.

The temple of Herè at Argos was burnt down.