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A broad, thin, silvery marine fish (Selene vomer); -- called also lookdown, and silver moonfish.

A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound. [Obs.] Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem. Jer. vi. 6.

; a grimace; a mow. Counterfeit sad looks, Make mouths upon me when I turn my back. Shak. Down in the mouth, chapfallen; of dejected countenance; depressed; discouraged. [Obs. or Colloq.] -- Mouth friend, one who professes friendship insincerely. Shak. -- Mouth glass, a small mirror for inspecting the mouth or teeth.…

To cut down, as grass, with a scythe or machine.

Cut down by mowing, as grass; deprived of grass by mowing; as, a mown field.

f Central Asia. The upper canine teeth of the male are developed into sharp tusks, curved downward. The male has scent bags on the belly, from which the musk of commerce is derived. The deer is yellow or red-brown above, whitish below. The pygmy musk deer are chevrotains, as the kanchil and napu. -- Musk duck. (Zoöl.)…

A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle. Shak.

Woolly or villous surface of felt, cloth, plants, etc.; an external covering of down, of short fine hairs or fibers forming part of the substance of anything, and lying smoothly in one direction; the pile; -- as, the nap of cotton flannel or of broadcloth.

Having a nap or pile; downy; shaggy. Holland.

duce the diameter of (an object) near its end, by making a groove around it; -- used with down; as, to neck down a shaft. v. t. & i. To kiss and caress amorously. n. necking

Situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower part; having a lower position; belonging to the region below; lower; under; -- opposed to upper. 'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires. Milton. This darksome nether world her light Doth dim with horror and deformity. Spenser. All my nether shape thus grew tra…

The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.

nine pins, or pieces of wood, set on end, at which a wooden ball is bowled to knock them down; bowling.

ther or closed; to pinch; to close in upon. May this hard earth cleave to the Nadir hell, Down, down, and close again, and nip me flat, If I be such a traitress. Tennyson.

oart or top of anything. Like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down. Shak.

Curved so that the apex hangs down; having the top bent downward.

To set down in express terms; to state. [Obs.] Is it so noiminated in the bond Shak.

A failure to deposit or throw down.

To record in writing; to make a memorandum of. Every unguarded word . . . was noted down. Maccaulay.

sely now. [Obs.] "Why, even now now, at holding up of this finger, and before the turning down of this." J. Webster (1607). -- Now . . . now, alternately; at one time . . . at another time. "Now high, now low, now master up, now miss." Pope.