Down

down, n. the soft hair under the feathers of fowls the hairy covering of the seeds of certain plants anything which soothes or invites to repose. [From root of Ice. dunn Ger. dunst vapour, dust. See Dust Down, down, a bank of sand thrown up by the sea —pi a tract of hilly land, used for pasturing sheep. [A.S. dun a hill (cog. with tun, a lort), found in all the'L’eut. and Romance languages prob. from Celtdun, which found in many names of places, as Dunkeld