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blish; to ordain. This law we may name eternal, being that order which God . . . hath set down with himself, for himself to do all things by. Hooker.

To conceal; to hide; to screen. [R.] Let every soldier hew him down a bough. And bear't before him; thereby shall we shadow The numbers of our host. Shak.

to rid one's self of; -- generally with an adverb, as off, out, etc.; as, to shake fruit down from a tree. Shake off the golden slumber of repose. Shak. 'Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age. Shak. I could scarcely shake him out of my company. Bunyan. To shake a cask (Naut.), to knock a cas…

for a bed, as one made on the floor or on chairs; -- perhaps originally from the shaking down of straw for this purpose. Sir W. Scott.

A game like California Jack, except that the pack drawn from is turned face down.

To fall in drops; to pour. [Obs.] Such a rain down from the welkin shadde. Chaucer.

Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense. "A sheer impossibility." De Quincey. It is not a sheer advantage to have several strings to one's bow. M. Arnold.

commerce it is colored a straw color or a deep amber by mixing with it cheap wine boiled down. Sherry cobbler, a beverage prepared with sherry wine, water, lemon or orange, sugar, ice, etc., and usually imbided through a straw or a glass tube.

The part of a plow which projects downward beneath the beam, for holding the share and other working parts; -- also called standard, or post.

'T was such a shifter that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down. Milton.

f wood or iron, placed under the wheel of a loaded vehicle, to retard its motion in going down a hill.

An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artificial, in a stream, where the water rushes rapidly; esp., a channel, having a swift current, connecting the ends of a bend in the stream, so as to shorten the course. [Writ…

To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in Shak. Cshowers down greatness on his friends. Addison.

Long; large; extensive. [Obs. or Scot.] Shak. His gown had side sleeves down to mid leg. Laneham. Side action, in breech-loading firearms, a mechanism for operating the breech block, which is moved by a lever that turns sidewise. -- Side arms, weapons worn at the side, as sword, bayonet, pistols, etc. -- Side ax, an…

y; also, obliquely; askew. A fellow nailed up maps . . . some sideling, and others upside down. Swift.

Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates whose seed vessels contain a long, silky down; milkweed.

resplendent; white. "Silver hair." Shak. Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bathed Their downy breast. Milton.

To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken or the like) by passing it over a flame.

iarity. Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling down of the seeds yieldeth corn. Sir. W. Raleigh. I took notice of this little figure for the singularity of the instrument. Addison.

to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely. Let these sayings sink down into your ears. Luke ix. 44.