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To whisper. [obs.] Gower. Another rouned to his fellow low. Chaucer.

see Roun. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Wearing a coarse gown or shaggy garment made of rug. Beau. & Fl.

The quality or condition of being sallow. Addison.

A gown or frock with short sleeves, formerly worn by mariners. Shak.

Of a rich dark brown color, like the fur of the fur seal after it is dyed.

The humbling of a person by act or words, especially by a retort or a reproof; the retort or the reproof which has such effect.

for a bed, as one made on the floor or on chairs; -- perhaps originally from the shaking down of straw for this purpose. Sir W. Scott.

Quality or state of being shallow.

Owner of a ship or ships.

p. p. of Show.

The quality or state of being slow.

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.

p. p. of Sow.

To sound. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

Bearing a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned building.

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

p. p. of Strow.

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