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Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence. Especially:

To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down. Stand, or I'll fell thee down. Shak.

One who, or that which, fells, knocks or cuts down; a machine for felling trees.

A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation. [R.] Down to the lowest lees the ferment ran. Thomson. ferment oils, volatile oils produced by the fermentation of plants, and not originally contained in them. These were the quintessences of the alchenists. Ure.

Very hot; burning; boiling. The mounted sun Shot down direct his fervid rays. Milton.

A projection downward from the keel of a yacht, resembling in shape the fin of a fish, though often with a cigar-shaped bulb of lead at the bottom, and generally made of metal. Its use is to ballast the boat and also to enable her to sail close to the wind and to make the least possible leeway by offering great resista…

To change by fine gradations; as (Naut.), to fine down a ship's lines, to diminish her lines gradually. I often sate at home On evenings, watching how they fined themselves With gradual conscience to a perfect night. Browning.

To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp. As loose it [the sail] flagged around the mast. T. Moore.

irregularly spread upon the surface, or apparently applied at the top and allowed to run down the sides; -- said of pieces of Chinese porcelain.

he genus Phoenicopterus. The flamingoes have webbed feet, very long legs, and a beak bent down as if broken. Their color is usually red or pink. The American flamingo is P. ruber; the European is P. antiquorum.

Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright. Flat burglary as ever was committed. Shak. A great tobacco taker too, -- that's flat. Marston.

; 115), adv. With the flat side downward; not edgewise. Shak.

To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit.

With the flat side downward, or next to another object; not edgewise.

To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.

A butcher. A flesher on a block had laid his whittle down. Macaulay.

To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation. His horse started, flung him, and fell upon him. Walpole.

Down; fur. [Obs. or Eng.] J. Dyer.

A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.

Applied to the down of newly hatched or unfledged birds.