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The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear. And the first down begins to shade his face. Dryden.

A breastplow used in paring off turf on downs. [Eng.] Knight.

With the wind.

To bear down; to depress.

Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt. 'T is love, said she; and then my downcast eyes, And guilty dumbness, witnessed my surprise. Dryden. - Down"cast`ly, adv. -- Down"cast`ness, n.

Sudden fall; downfall; overthrow. Milton.

A sudden fall; a body of things falling. Those cataracts or downfalls aforesaid. Holland. Each downfall of a flood the mountains pour. Dryden.

Fallen; ruined. Carew.

Falling down.

Hanging down like gyves or fetters. [Poetic & Rare] Shak.

A rope to haul down, or to assist in hauling down, a sail; as, a staysail downhaul; a trysail downhaul.

Dejected; low-spirited.

Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill.

The quality or state of being downy.

Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen. [R.] Dryden.

The time of retiring to rest; time of repose. Cavendish. At the downlying, at the travail in childbirth. [Scot.]

A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.

Straight down; perpendicularly.

The act of sitting down; repose; a resting. Thou knowest my downsitting and my uprising. Ps. cxxxix. 2.

Down the stairs; to a lower floor. -- a.