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3. Without delay; at once; completely. [Obs.]

She fell downright into a fit.

Arbuthnot.

Down"right`, a. 1. Plain; direct; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way.

A man of plain, downright character.

Sir W. Scott.

2. Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as, downright atheism.

The downright impossibilities charged upon it.

South.

Gloomy fancies which in her amounted to downright insanity.

Prescott.

-- Down"right`ly, adv. -- Down"right`ness, n.

Down"-share` (?), n. A breastplow used in paring off turf on downs. [Eng.] Knight.

Down"sit`ting (?), n. The act of sitting down; repose; a resting.

Thou knowest my downsitting and my uprising.

Ps. cxxxix. 2.

Down"stairs (?), adv. Down the stairs; to a lower floor. -- a. Below stairs; as, a downstairs room.

Down"steep`y (?), a. Very steep. [Obs.] Florio.

Down"stream` (?), adv. Down the stream; as, floating downstream.

Down"stroke` (?), n. (Penmanship) A stroke made with a downward motion of the pen or pencil.

Down"throw` (?), n. (Geol.) The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one side of a fault. See Throw, n.

{ Down"trod` (?), Down"trod`den (?), } a. Trodden down; trampled down; abused by superior power. Shak.

{ Down"ward (?), Down"wards (?), } adv. [AS. ad&?;nweard. See Down, adv., and -ward.] 1. From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards. "Looking downwards." Pope.

Their heads they downward bent.

Drayton.

2. From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery, humility, disgrace, or ruin.

And downward fell into a groveling swine.