Part 3433

<hw>Down"ly`ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The time of retiring to rest; time of repose.</def>

<i>Cavendish.</i>

<cs><col>At the downlying</col>, <cd>at the travail in childbirth. <mark>[Scot.]</mark></cd></cs>

<h1>Downpour</h1> <Xpage=449>

<hw>Down"pour`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.</def>

<h1>Downright</h1> <Xpage=449>

<hw>Down"right`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Straight down; perpendicularly.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>In plain terms; without ceremony.</def>

<blockquote>We shall chide <b>downright</b>, id I longer stay. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Without delay; at once; completely.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>She fell <b>downright</b> into a fit. <i>Arbuthnot.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Downright</h1> <Xpage=449>

<hw>Down"right`</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Plain; direct; unceremonious; blunt; positive; <as>as, he spoke in his <ex>downright</ex> way</as>.</def>

<blockquote>A man of plain, <b>downright</b> character. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; <as>as, <ex>downright</ex> atheism</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>downright</b> impossibilities charged upon it. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Gloomy fancies which in her amounted to <b>downright</b> insanity. <i>Prescott.</i></blockquote>

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

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

<hw>Down"-share`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A breastplow used in paring off turf on downs.</def> <mark>[Eng.]</mark>

<i>Knight.</i>

<h1>Downsitting</h1> <Xpage=449>

<hw>Down"sit`ting</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of sitting down; repose; a resting.</def>

<blockquote>Thou knowest my <b>downsitting</b> and my uprising. <i>Ps. cxxxix. 2.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Downstairs</h1> <Xpage=449>

<hw>Down"stairs</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>Down the stairs; to a lower floor.</def> -- <def2><tt>a.</tt> <def>Below stairs; <as>as, a <ex>downstairs</ex> room</as>.</def></def2>

<h1>Downsteepy</h1> <Xpage=449>

<hw>Down"steep`y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Very steep.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>