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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…

Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill.

To weigh or press down. A different sin downweighs them to the bottom. Longfellow.

break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag. Then while I dragged my brains for such a song. Tennyson.

A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing.

e. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.

A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton.

take off sugars, rum, etc., to the merchantmen; also, a vessel for transporting lumber, cotton, etc., coastwise; as, a lumber drogher. [Written also droger.] Ham. Nar. Encyc.

.] I bought an excellent drollery, which I afterward parted with to my brother George of Wotton. Evelyn.

A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries. [U.S.]

A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds, and sometimes for men's clothing.

A coarse kind of unbleached cotton stuff. [Written also dungari.] [India]

Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water, or stowed among casks and other cargo to prevent their motion.

ocess or art of fixing coloring matters permanently and uniformly in the fibers of wool, cotton, etc.

The territory or dignity of an elector; electorate. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.

Degrees of elevation above us." Locke. His style . . . wanted a little elevation. Sir H. Wotton.

A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verse, or the like, intended as a moral lesson or meditation.

soul." Shak. Empress cloth, a cloth for ladies' dresses, either wholly of wool, or with cotton warp and wool weft. It resembles merino, but is not twilled.

ramed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto.

To describe by an epithet. [R.] Never was a town better epitheted. Sir H. Wotton.