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To reduce the intensity or degree of; to tone down; to soften; as, to subdue the brilliancy of colors.

submit; expressing submission; as, a submissive demeanor. With a submissive step I hasted down. Prior.

To let down; to lower. [Obs.] Sometimes the hill submits itself a while. Dryden.

To tend downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink. "Heaven's subsiding hill." Dryden.

ive kings of Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer. Send the successive ills through ages down. Prior.

The act of cutting down, as of trees; the act of cutting off. [R.]

Characterized by a shaking motion, especially an up and down movement, and not merely tremulous oscillation; as, the succussive motion in earthquakes.

In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the sirup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; -- with the preposition off. [Local, U.S.]

A cloth which is placed over the top of an altar, and often hangs down a few inches over the frontal.

To trip up. [Obs.] "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton.

The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.

To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell. Every rebellion, when it is suppressed, doth make the subject weaker, and the prince stronger. Sir J. Davies.

To sink down by its weight; to sag. Sir H. Wotton. I swag as a fat person's belly swaggeth as he goeth. Palsgrave.

The down, or fine, soft feathers, of the swan, used on various articles of dress.

The act of a swan with the down or the feathers on.

Bent down, and hollow in the back; sway-backed; -- said of a horse. Shak.

To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste away without feeding the flame. [Written also swale.] Sir W. Scott.

Influence of power of a body put in swaying motion. The ram that batters down the wall, For the great swing and rudeness of his poise, They place before his hand that made the engine. Shak.

or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses; as, Justice came down from heaven to view the earth; Justice returned to heaven, and left the earth.

Inclined downward from opposite directions, so as to meet in a common point or line.