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Toward a distal part; on the distal side of; distally.

Toward a distal part.

- with from. The intention was that the two armies which marched out together should afterward be distinct. Clarendon.

ell as truth from falsehood. Watts. Nor more can you distinguish of a man, Than of his outward show. Shak.

s for a large district are collected to be assorted according to their destination and forwarded.

To diverge; to be divaricate. Woodward.

One who, or that which, dives. Divers and fishers for pearls. Woodward.

; separate. The word . . . is used in a sense very diverse from its original import. J. Edwards. Our roads are diverse: farewell, love! said she. R. Browning.

A kind of baize of which the ward is cotton and the weft woolen. Blakely.

wenty-eight years the same letters return in the same order. The dominical letters go backwards one day every common year, and two every leap year; e. g., if the dominical letter of a common year be G, F will be the dominical letter for the next year. Called also Sunday letter. Cf. Solar cycle, under Cycle, n.…

Toward the dorsum or back; on the dorsal side; dorsally.

On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad.

k; as, to sit dos-à-dos in a dogcart; to dance dos- à-dos, or so that two dancers move forward and pass back to back.

ent courses from the same original from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc.

Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking. -- Dow"di*ly, adv. -- Dow"di*ness, n.

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.

Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt. 'T is love, said she; and then my downcast eyes, And guilty dumbness, witnessed my surprise. Dryden. - Down"cast`ly, adv. -- Down"cast`ness, 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.

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

A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.