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Soft; pulpy. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Of or pertaining to the South Downs, a range of pasture hills south of the Thames, in England. Southdown sheep (Zoöl.), a celebrated breed of shortwooled, hornless sheep, highly valued on account of the delicacy of their flesh. So called from the South Downs where the breed originated.

Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. [R.] Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire. Shak.

r converting a current of high potential or pressure into one of low pressure; as, a step-down transformer.

The setting of the sun; sunset. "When sundown skirts the moor." Tennyson.

n it is too late to work; -- called also traveler and swagman (but not all swagmen are sundowners).

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

The act of touching the football down behind the opponents' goal . Safety touchdown. See under Safety.

Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house. [Colloq.]

Capable of being turned down; specif. (Elec.), designating, or pertaining to, an incandescent lamp with a small additional filament which can be made incandescent when only a small amount of light is required.

See Upsodown. [Obs. or Colloq.] Spenser.

Upside down. [Obs. or Colloq.] Wyclif. In man's sin is every manner order or ordinance turned upsodown. Chaucer.

A meadow, or piece of low, flat land, capable of being kept in a state of fertility by being overflowed with water from some adjoining river or stream.

husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband. "A poor widow." Chaucer. Grass widow. See under Grass. -- Widow bewitched, a woman separated from her husband; a grass widow. [Colloq.] Widow-in-mourning (Zoöl.), the macavahu. -- Widow monkey (Zoöl.), a small South American monkey (Calli…

See Whidan bird.

One who courts widows, seeking to marry one with a fortune. Addison.

One who makes widows by destroying husbands. [R.] Shak.

A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub (Cneorum tricoccon) found in Southern Europe.

A man who has lost his wife by death, and has not married again. Shak.

The state of being a widower.