Part 3431

<blockquote>I remember how you <b>downed</b> Beauclerk and Hamilton, the wits, once at our house. <i>Madame D'Arblay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Down</h1> <Xpage=449>

<hw>Down</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To go down; to descend.</def>

<i>Locke.</i>

<h1>Down</h1> <Xpage=449>

<hw>Down</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Downcast; <as>as, a <ex>down</ex> look</as>.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Downright; absolute; positive; <as>as, a <ex>down</ex> denial</as>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Beau. & Fl.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Downward; going down; sloping; <as>as, a <ex>down</ex> stroke; a <ex>down</ex> grade; a <ex>down</ex> train on a railway.</as></def>

<cs><col>Down draught</col>, <cd>a downward draft, as in a flue, chimney, shaft of a mine, etc.</cd> -- <col>Down in the mouth</col>, <cd>chopfallen; dejected.</cd></cs> <-- = down at the mouth -->

<h1>Downbear</h1> <Xpage=449>

<hw>Down"bear`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To bear down; to depress.</def>

<h1>Downcast</h1> <Xpage=449>

<hw>Down"cast`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt.</def>

<blockquote>'T is love, said she; and then my <b>downcast</b> eyes, And guilty dumbness, witnessed my surprise. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

- <wordforms><wf>Down"cast`ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Down"cast`ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Downcast</h1> <Xpage=449>

<hw>Down"cast`</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Downcast or melancholy look.</def>

<blockquote>That <b>downcast</b> of thine eye. <i>Beau. & Fl.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(mining)</fld> <def>A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.</def>

<h1>Downcome</h1> <Xpage=449>

<hw>Down"come`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Sudden fall; downfall; overthrow.</def>

<i>Milton.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Iron Manuf.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Downfall</h1> <Xpage=449>

<hw>Down"fall`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A sudden fall; a body of things falling.</def>

<blockquote>Those cataracts or <b>downfalls</b> aforesaid. <i>Holland.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Each <b>downfall</b> of a flood the mountains pour. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>