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Trodden down; trampled down; abused by superior power. Shak.

place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous. With downward force That drove the sand along he took his way. Dryden.

r place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards. "Looking downwards." Pope. Their heads they downward bent. Drayton.

Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium.

To weigh or press down. A different sin downweighs them to the bottom. Longfellow.

Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs. "A downy feather." Shak. Plants that . . . have downy or velvet rind upon their leaves. Bacon.

suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak.

The act of drowning. [R.]

One who, or that which, drowns.

To give a brown color to; to imbrown. Summer suns embrown the laboring swain. Fenton.

A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. [U.S.] Bartlett.

p. p. of Fly; -- often used with the auxiliary verb to be; as, the birds are flown.

Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul. Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled. Thackeray.

pleasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look. The frowning wrinkle of her brow. Shak.

In a frowning manner.

Frowning; scowling. [Obs.] Her frowny mother's ragged shoulder. Sir F. Palgrave.

Fully expanded, as a blossom; as, a full-bloun rose. Denham.

Having reached the limits of growth; mature. "Full-grown wings." Lowell.

A warehouse. [East Indies]

The ordinary outer dress of a woman; as, a calico or silk gown.