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To cover with a skirt; to surround. Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold. Milton.

To put in or on some place with force and loud noise; -- usually with down; as, to slam a trunk down on the pavement.

A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood or metal; as, the slats of a window blind.

haking or flapping of anything hanging loose in the wind, as of a sail, when being hauled down.

s, a slender stem or stalk of a plant. "A slender, choleric man." Chaucer. She, as a veil down to the slender waist, Her unadorned golden tresses wore. Milton.

f any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.

Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel. The shivering urchin bending as he goes, With slipshod heels. Cowper.

Sloping. "Down the slope hills." Milton. A bank not steep, but gently slope. Bacon.

A hanging down of the head; a drooping attitude; a limp appearance; an ungainly, clownish gait; a sidewise depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.

Hanging down at the side; limp; drooping; without firmness or shapeliness; moving in an ungainly manner.

ugh constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery.

A rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat.

A large mass or avalanche of snow which slips down the side of a mountain, etc.

To become sober; -- often with down. Vance gradually sobered down. Ld. Lytton.

To make less glaring; to tone down; as, to soften the coloring of a picture.

nger, not considering the place as a permanent habitation; to delay; to tarry. Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there. Gen. xii. 30. Home he goeth, he might not longer sojourn. Chaucer. The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and there sojourned three days. Hayward.

Real; earnest; downright. [Obs. & R.] Frederick, the emperor, . . . has spared no expense in strengthening this city; since which time we find no solemn taking it by the Turks. Fuller.

the reducing power of certain sugars and sirups by the amount of red cuprous oxide thrown down. -- Heavy solution (Min.), a liquid of high density, as a solution of mercuric iodide in potassium iodide (called the Sonstadt or Thoulet solution) having a maximum specific gravity of 3.2, or of borotungstate of cadium (Kle…

Filthy; foul; dirty. [Obs.] A sordid god; down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean. Dryden.

erson; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt. [Obs.] outh. In Egypt oft has seen the sot bow down, And reverence some dOldham.