Downiness

State of being downy. Down'ing, ANDREW JACKSON, an eminent American landscape-gardener, B. at Newburg, New York, 1815. In early life he a isted his father in the prosecution of his busine as a nurseryman, and soon rendered himself familiar with the arts of gardening and horticulture, the science of botany, . In 1841, D. published his well-known Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. This work obtained great popularity, and elicited encomiums from such great English authorities as Loudon and Lindley. In succe ion appeared his Cottage Residences, Fruits and Fruit-Trees of America (which has run through 14 editions), Archi tecture for Country Houses, . D. was accidentally drowned, 1852. Down'ing's Mills, in New Hampshire, a former post-office of Str afford co. Down'ingsville, See DOWNINGVILLE. Down'ingsville, in Kentucky , a township of Grant co., about 10 miles W. of Williams town. Down'ingtown, in in Pennsylvania, a post-borough of Chester co., 33 miles W. of Philadelphia, on the E. branch of Brandy wine creek. Pop . (1897) about 2,500. Down'ington, in Ohio , a post-village of Meigs co., about 40 m. S.W. of Marietta. Down'ingville, in Ohio , a village of Carroll co. Downlooked, ( down'lookt ,) a. Having a dejected or sullen countenance. "Down look'd, and with a cuckoo on her fist." - Dryden. Down'lying, a. About to lie down, or be in travail of childbirth. -n. Time of repose; bed-time. dowry. Dow're , n. A woman entitled to dower. Dow'ry, n. [See DOWER.] A gift; a fortune given. (Law.) A word sometimes confounded with dower . It was formerly applied to mean that which a woman brings to her husband. Dowse, v . a . and n. See DOUSE. Dowse, n. A blow or slap in the face. (Vulgar.) Dowser, Dowsing-rod, n . ( Mining .) A miner's divining-rod. Dows'er, n. One who makes use of the divining-rod. Dows'ing-cheeks, n . pl . (Ship-building.) Pieces fayed acro the apron, and lapped on the knightheads or inside stuff above the upper deck. Doxological, ( dozs - o - lojik -al,) a. Pertaining or re- lating to doxology; rendering praise to God. Doxologize, v . a . [Gr. doxologein .] To praise God with doxologies. Doxology, n . [Gr. doxologia , praising, from doxologěō , to give glory to.] ( Eccl .) A form of praise, or giving glory to God; as in the concluding paragraph of the Lord's Prayer, - "Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever;" or the Hymn of the Angels (Luke ii. 14), - "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good-will to all men."-Two hymns used in the early Christian church were known as the greater and le er D. The greater D. was simply an expansion of the angelic hymn, and is now generally known by that name; it is sung in the Roman Catholic Church at the celebration of the Lord's Supper and at matins. The le er D. is the ordinary D. , "Glory be to the Father, and to the Son," ., repeated at the end of each psalm in the service of the Church of England. Doxy, ( doks'y,) n. A sweetheart or paramour. "Orthodoxy is any dozy." - Bishop War burton. -A prostitute; a woman of loose morals; as, a sailor's doxy.