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A stroke made with a downward motion of the pen or pencil.

The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one side of a fault. See Throw, n.

Trodden down; trampled down; abused by superior power. Shak.

r 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.

er 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.

Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium.

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

Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs. "A downy feather." Shak. Plants that . . . have downy or velvet rind upon their leaves. Bacon.

Of or relating to a dower. [R.]

A woman entitled to dower. Bouvier.

A gift; endowment. [Obs.] Spenser.

To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse.

A divining rod used in searching for water, ore, etc., a dowsing rod. [Colloq.]

A dowse. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A dove. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Pertaining to doxology; giving praise to God. Howell.

To give glory to God, as in a doxology; to praise God with doxologies.

ed by the choir or the congregation. David breaks forth into these triumphant praises and doxologies. South.

A loose wench; a disreputable sweetheart. Shak.

Lit., a dean; the senior member of a body or group; as, the doyen of French physicians. "This doyen of newspapers." A. R. Colquhoun.