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Conical, but having the apex downward; inversely conical.

Imbricated, with the overlapping ends directed downward.

Inversely ovate; ovate with the narrow end downward; as, an obovate leaf.

The act of turning toward or downward.

A bifurcated garment for a man, covering the body from the waist downwards, and consisting of breeches and stockings in one.

Inclined or hanging downwards, as a flower on a recurved stalk, or an ovule which hangs from the upper part of the ovary.

A falling, flowing, or rushing downward with violence and rapidity. The hurry, precipitation, and rapid motion of the water, returning . . . towards the sea. Woodward.

The act of turning the palm or palmar surface of the forefoot downward.

Headlong; running downward or headlong. "Down thither prone in flight." Milton.

The quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward; as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man.

point of suspension of the lower jaw. -- Pterygoid process (Anat.), a process projecting downward from either side of the sphenoid bone, in man divided into two plates, an inner and an outer. The posterior nares pass through the space, called the pterygoid fossa, between the processes.

f a plant which supports the cotyledons in the seed, and from which the root is developed downward; the stem of the embryo; the caulicle.

Reclined, as a leaf; bent downward, so that the point, as of a stem or leaf, is lower than the base.

Falling or turned downward; reclinate.

Reversed; set with the head downward; turned contrary to the natural position.

airs; a haunt; a resort. [R.] There the fierce winds his tender force assail And beat him downward to his first repair. Dryden.

Lying on the back; supine; hence, careless. Sir K. Digby. He spake, and, downward swayed, fell resupine, With his huge neck aslant. Cowper.

mediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards.

Bent backward or downward. -- Re*trorse"ly, adv.

Rolled backward or downward.