Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 92
Down (n.) (Bot.) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, as of the thistle.
Down (n.) The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
And the first down begins to shade his face. -- Dryden.
Down (n.) That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
When in the down I sink my head, Sleep, Death's twin brother, times my breath. -- Tennyson.
Thou bosom softness, down of all my cares! -- Southern.
Down tree (Bot.), A tree of Central America ({Ochroma Lagopus), the seeds of which are enveloped in vegetable wool.
Down (v. t.) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down. [R.] -- Young.
Down (n.) A bank or rounded hillock of sand thrown up by the wind along or near the shore; a flattish-topped hill; -- usually in the plural.
Hills afford prospects, as they must needs acknowledge who have been on the downs of Sussex. -- Ray.
She went by dale, and she went by down. -- Tennyson.
Down (n.) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep; -- usually in the plural. [Eng.]
Seven thousand broad-tailed sheep grazed on his downs. -- Sandys.
Down (n.) (pl.) A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war.
On the 11th [June, 1771] we run up the channel . . . at noon we were abreast of Dover, and about three came to an anchor in the Downs, and went ashore at Deal. -- Cook (First Voyage).
Down (n.) (pl.) [From the adverb.] A state of depression; low state; abasement. [Colloq.]
It the downs of life too much outnumber the ups. -- M. Arnold.
Down (adv.) In the direction of gravity or toward the center of the earth; toward or in a lower place or position; below; -- the opposite of up.
Down (adv.) Hence, in many derived uses, as:
From a higher to a lower position, literally or figuratively; in a descending direction; from the top of an ascent; from an upright position; to the ground or floor; to or into a lower or an inferior condition; as, into a state of humility, disgrace, misery, and the like; into a state of rest; -- used with verbs indicating motion.
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.
Down (adv.) In a low or the lowest position, literally or figuratively; at the bottom of a decent; below the horizon; of 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.
Down (adv.) From a remoter or higher antiquity.
Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. -- D. Webster.
Down (adv.) 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.
Note: 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 Her[`e] at Argos was burnt down. -- Jowett (Thucyd.).
Down, as well as up, is sometimes used in a conventional sense; as, down East.
Persons in London say down to Scotland, etc., and those in the provinces, up to London. -- Stormonth.
Down helm (Naut.), An order to the helmsman to put the helm to leeward.
Down on or Down upon (Joined with a verb indicating motion, as go, come, pounce), To attack, implying the idea of threatening power.
Come down upon us with a mighty power. -- Shak.
Down with, Take down, throw down, put down; -- used in energetic command, often by people aroused in crowds, referring to people, laws, buildings, etc.; as, down with the king! "Down with the palace; fire it." -- Dryden.
To be
down on, To
dislike and treat harshly. [Slang, U.S.]
To cry down. See under Cry, v. t.
To cut down. See under Cut, v. t.
Up and down, With rising and falling motion; to and fro; hither and thither; everywhere. "Let them wander up and down." -- Ps. lix. 15.
Down (prep.) [From Down, adv.] In a descending direction along; from a higher to a lower place upon or within; at a lower place in or on; as, down a hill; down a well.
Down (prep.) [From Down,
adv.] Hence:
Towards the mouth of a river; towards the sea; as, to sail or swim down a
stream; to sail down the sound.
Down the country, Toward the sea, or toward the part where rivers
discharge their waters into the ocean.
Down the sound, In the direction of the ebbing tide; toward the sea.
Downed (imp. & p. p.) of Down
Downing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Down
Down (v. t.) To cause to go down; to make descend; to put down; to overthrow, as in wrestling; hence, to subdue; to bring down. [Archaic or Colloq.] "To down proud hearts." -- Sir P. Sidney.
I remember how you downed Beauclerk and Hamilton, the wits, once at our house. -- Madame D'Arblay.
Down (v. i.) To go down; to descend. -- Locke.
Down (a.) Downcast; as, a down look. [R.]
Down (a.) Downright; absolute; positive; as, a down denial. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Down (a.) Downward; going down; sloping; as, a down stroke; a down grade; a down train on a railway.
Down draught, A downward draft, as in a flue, chimney, shaft of a mine, etc.
Down in the mouth, Down at the mouth Chopfallen; dejected.
Down (adv.) Spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position; "don't fall down"; "rode the lift up and skied down"; "prices plunged downward" [syn: down, downwards, downward, downwardly] [ant: up, upward, upwardly, upwards].
Down (adv.) Away from a more central or a more northerly place; "was sent down to work at the regional office"; "worked down on the farm"; "came down for the wedding"; "flew down to Florida" [ant: up].
Down (adv.) Paid in cash at time of purchase; "put ten dollars down on the necklace".
Down (adv.) From an earlier time; "the story was passed down from father to son".
Down (adv.) To a lower intensity; "he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black" [ant: up].
Down (adv.) In an inactive or inoperative state; "the factory went down during the strike"; "the computer went down again".
Down (a.) Being or moving lower in position or less in some value; "lay face down"; "the moon is down"; "our team is down by a run"; "down by a pawn"; "the stock market is down today" [ant: up].
Down (a.) Extending or moving from a higher to a lower place; "the down staircase"; "the downward course of the stream" [syn: down(a), downward(a)].
Down (a.) Becoming progressively lower; "the down trend in the real estate market".
Down (a.) Being put out by a strikeout; "two down in the bottom of the ninth".
Down (a.) Understood perfectly; "had his algebra problems down" [syn: down, down pat(p), mastered].
Down (a.) Lower than previously; "the market is depressed"; "prices are down" [syn: depressed, down(p)].
Down (a.) Shut; "the shades were down".
Down (a.) Not functioning (temporarily or permanently); "we can't work because the computer is down".
Down (a.) Filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted" [syn: gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited].
Down (n.) Soft fine feathers [syn: down, down feather].
Down (n.) (American football) A complete play to advance the football; "you have four downs to gain ten yards".
Down (n.) English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896) [syn: Down, John L. H. Down].
Down (n.) (Usually plural) A rolling treeless highland with little soil.
Down (n.) Fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) [syn: down, pile].
Down (v.) Drink down entirely; "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They popped a few beer after work" [syn: toss off, pop, bolt down, belt down, pour down, down, drink down, kill].
Down (v.) Eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal" [syn: devour, down, consume, go through].
Down (v.) Bring down or defeat (an opponent).
Down (v.) Shoot at and force to come down; "the enemy landed several of our aircraft" [syn: down, shoot down, land].
Down (v.) Cause to come or go down; "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect"; "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet" [syn: down, knock down, cut down, push down, pull down].
Down (v.) Improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing" [syn: polish, refine, fine-tune, down].
Down (a.) Not operating. ?The up escalator is down? is considered a humorous thing to say (unless of course you were expecting to use it), and ?The elevator is down? always means ? The elevator isn't working? and never refers to what floor the elevator is on. With respect to computers, this term has passed into the mainstream; the extension to other kinds of machine is still confined to techies (e.g. boiler mechanics may speak of a boiler being down).
Down (a.) Go down v. i. To stop functioning; usually said of the system. The message from the console that every hacker hates to hear from the operator is ? System going down in 5 minutes?.
Down (a.) Take down, bring down v. t. To deactivate purposely, usually for repair work or PM. ? I'm taking the system down to work on that bug in the tape drive.? Occasionally one hears the word down by itself used as a verb in this vt. sense.
See crash; oppose up.
Down () Not operating. "The up escalator is down" is considered a humorous thing to say, and "The elevator is down" always means "The elevator isn't working" and never refers to what floor the elevator is on. With respect to computers, this term has passed into the mainstream; the extension to other kinds of machine is still hackish.
Down () "Go down" To stop functioning; usually said of the system. The message from the console that every hacker hates to hear from the operator is "System going down in 5 minutes".
Down () "Take down", "bring down" To deactivate purposely, usually for repair work or PM. "I'm taking the system down to work on that bug in the tape drive." Occasionally one hears the word "down" by itself used as a verb in this sense.
See crash; opposite: up. [{Jargon File] (1994-12-07)
Downbear (v. t.) To bear down; to depress.
Downcast (a.) Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt.
Downcast (n.) Downcast or melancholy look.
Downcast (n.) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.
Downcome (n.) Sudden fall; downfall; overthrow.
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.
Downfall (n.) A sudden fall; a body of things falling.
Downfall (n.) A sudden descent from rank or state, reputation or happiness; destruction; ruin.
Downfallen (a.) Fallen; ruined.
Downfalling (a.) Falling down.
Downgyved (a.) Hanging down like gyves or fetters.
Downhaul (n.) A rope to haul down, or to assist in hauling down, a sail; as, a staysail downhaul; a trysail downhaul.
Downhearted (a.) Dejected; low-spirited.
Downhill (adv.) Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill.
Downhill (a.) Declivous; descending; sloping.
Downhill (n.) Declivity; descent; slope.
Downiness (n.) The quality or state of being downy.
Download (v. t.)【電腦】下載 (v.) Transfer a file or program from a central computer to a smaller computer or to a computer at a remote location [ant: upload].
Download (v. t.) To transfer data or (esp.) code from a far-away system (especially a larger host system) over a digital communications link to a nearby system (especially a smaller client system. Oppose upload.
Historical use of these terms was at one time associated with transfers from large timesharing machines to PCs or peripherals (download) and vice-versa (upload). The modern usage relative to the speaker (rather than as an indicator of the size and role of the machines) evolved as machine categories lost most of their former functional importance.
Downloadable (a.) 可下載的 (Of data) Able to be copied from one computer system to another or to a disk.
‘The illustrations are available as downloadable files from the website.’
Downlooked (a.) Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen. [R.] -- Dryden.
Downlying (n.) The time of retiring to rest; time of repose.
Downplay (v.) (v. t.) 將 …… 輕描淡寫；貶低；低估 Represent as less significant or important [syn: understate, minimize, minimise, downplay] [ant: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate].
Downplay (v.) Understate the importance or quality of; "he played down his royal ancestry" [syn: background, play down, downplay] [ant: foreground, highlight, play up, spotlight].
Downpour (n.) [C] 傾盆大雨，豪雨；（日光的）大量照射 A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.
Downpour (n.) A heavy rain [syn: downpour, cloudburst, deluge, waterspout, torrent, pelter, soaker].
Downright (adv.) 完全地，徹底地 Straight down; perpendicularly.
Downright (adv.) In plain terms; without ceremony.
We shall chide downright, if I longer stay. -- Shak.
Downright (adv.) Without delay; at once; completely. [Obs.]
She fell downright into a fit. -- Arbuthnot.
Downright (a.) 完全的，十足的；率直的，坦率的；直截了當的 Plain; direct; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way.
A man of plain, downright character. -- Sir W. Scott.
Downright (a.) Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as, downright atheism.
Syn: honest-to-goodness.
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.
Downright (adv.) Thoroughgoing; "he is outright dishonest".
Downright (a.) Characterized by plain blunt honesty; "a downright answer"; "a downright kind of person".
Downright (a.) Complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers; "absolute freedom"; "an absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem"; "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer stupidity" [syn: absolute, downright, out-and-out(a), rank(a), right-down, sheer(a)].
Down-share (n.) A breastplow used in paring off turf on downs.
Downsitting (n.) The act of sitting down; repose; a resting.
Downstairs (adv.) Down the stairs; to a lower floor.
Downstairs (a.) Below stairs; as, a downstairs room.
Downsteepy (a.) Very steep.
Downstream (adv.) Down the stream; as, floating downstream.
Downstroke (n.) A stroke made with a downward motion of the pen or pencil.
Downthrow (n.) The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one side of a fault. See Throw, n.
Downtrod (a.) Alt. of Downtrodden
Downtrodden (a.) 被蹂躪的；受抑制的 Trodden down; trampled down; abused by superior power.
Downward (adv.) Alt. of Downwards
Downwards (adv.) 向下；日趨沒落地；（時間）往後推移地 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.
Downwards (adv.) From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery, humility, disgrace, or ruin.
And downward fell into a groveling swine. -- Milton
Downwards (adv.) From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another in a descending line.
A ring the county wears, That downward hath descended in his house, From son to son, some four or five descents. -- Shak.
Downward (a.) 向下的，下降的 [B]；日趨沒落的；（時間）往後推移的 Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous.
With downward force That drove the sand along he took his way. -- Dryden.
Downward (a.) Descending from a head, origin, or source; as, a downward line of descent.
Downward (a.) Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected; as, downward thoughts. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Downward (adv.) Spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position; "don't fall down"; "rode the lift up and skied down"; "prices plunged downward" [syn: down, downwards, downward, downwardly] [ant: up, upward, upwardly, upwards].
Downward (a.) Extending or moving from a higher to a lower place; "the down staircase"; "the downward course of the stream" [syn: down(a), downward(a)].
Downward (a.) On or toward a surface regarded as a base; "he lay face downward"; "the downward pull of gravity".
Downweed (n.) Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium.
Downweigh (v. t.) To weigh or press down.
Downy (a.) Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs.
Downy (a.) Made of, or resembling, down. Hence, figuratively: Soft; placid; soothing; quiet.
Downy (a.) Cunning; wary.
Dowral (a.) Of or relating to a dower.
Dowress (n.) A woman entitled to dower.
Dowries (n. pl. ) of Dowry
Dowry (n.) 嫁妝 [C]；天賦；天資 [C]；【古】（寡婦應得的）亡夫遺產 [U] [C] A gift; endowment. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Dowry (n.) The money, goods, or estate, which a woman brings to her husband in marriage; a bride's portion on her marriage. See Note under Dower. -- Shak. Dryden.
Dowry (n.) A gift or presents for the bride, on espousal. See Dower.
Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give . . .; but give me the damsel to wife. -- Gen. xxxiv. 12.
Dowry (n.) Money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage [syn: dowry, dowery, dower, portion].
Dowry, () (mohar; i.e., price paid for a wife, Gen. 34:12; Ex. 22:17; 1 Sam. 18:25), A nuptial present; some gift, as a sum of money, which the bridegroom offers to the father of his bride as a satisfaction before he can receive her. Jacob had no dowry to give for his wife, but he gave his services (Gen. 29:18; 30:20; 34:12).
Dowse (v. t.) To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse.
Dowse (v. t.) To beat or thrash.
Dowse (v. i.) To use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc.
Dowse (n.) A blow on the face.
Dowser (n.) A divining rod used in searching for water, ore, etc., a dowsing rod.
Dowser (n.) One who uses the dowser or divining rod.
Dowst (n.) A dowse.
Dowve (n.) A dove.
Doxological (a.) Pertaining to doxology; giving praise to God.
Doxologized (imp. & p. p.) of Doxologize
Doxologizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Doxologize
Doxologize (v. i.) To give glory to God, as in a doxology; to praise God with doxologies.
Doxologies (n. pl. ) of Doxology
Doxology (n.) In Christian worship: A hymn expressing praise and honor to God; a form of praise to God designed to be sung or chanted by the choir or the congregation.
Doxies (n. pl. ) of Doxy
Doxy (n.) A loose wench; a disreputable sweetheart.
Doyly (n.) See Doily.
Dozed (imp. & p. p.) of Doze
Dozing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Doze
Doze (v. i.) To slumber; to sleep lightly; to be in a dull or stupefied condition, as if half asleep; to be drowsy.
Doze (v. t.) To pass or spend in drowsiness; as, to doze away one's time.
Doze (v. t.) To make dull; to stupefy.
Doze (n.) A light sleep; a drowse.
Dozen (n. pl. ) of Dozen
Dozens (n. pl. ) of Dozen