The downright impossibilities charged upon it.
South.
Gloomy fancies which in her amounted to downright insanity.
Prescott.
-- Down"right`ly, adv. -- Down"right`ness, n.
Down"-share` (?), n. A breastplow used in paring off turf on downs. [Eng.] Knight.
Down"sit`ting (?), n. The act of sitting down; repose; a resting.
Thou knowest my downsitting and my uprising.
Ps. cxxxix. 2.
Down"stairs (?), adv. Down the stairs; to a lower floor. -- a. Below stairs; as, a downstairs room.
Down"steep`y (?), a. Very steep. [Obs.] Florio.
Down"stream` (?), adv. Down the stream; as, floating downstream.
Down"stroke` (?), n. (Penmanship) A stroke made with a downward motion of the pen or pencil.
Down"throw` (?), n. (Geol.) The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one side of a fault. See Throw, n.
{ Down"trod` (?), Down"trod`den (?), } a. Trodden down; trampled down; abused by superior power. Shak.
{ Down"ward (?), Down"wards (?), } adv. [AS. ad&?;nweard. See Down, adv., and -ward.] 1. From a higher 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.
2. From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery, humility, disgrace, or ruin.
And downward fell into a groveling swine.
Milton.
3. From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another in a descending line.
A ring the county wears,
That downward hath descended in his house,
From son to son, some four or five descents.
Shak.
Down"ward, a. 1. Moving or extending from a higher to a lower 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.