downcast ness

[Eng. downcast: -ne .] The state or condition of being downcast or dejected; sadne . "Your doubts to chase, your downcast ne to cheer." D. M. Moir. *downed, a. [Eng. down, s.; -ed .] Supplied or stuffed with down. "What pain to quit the world, just made their own; Their nest so deeply downed , and built so high!" Young: Night Thoughts , viii. 213, 214. dow ne-way, v . t . [Mid. Eng. doune , and way = weigh.] To weigh down; to counterbalance. ( Spen ser.) down-fall, *down-fal, s. [Eng. down , and fall (q. v.).] I. Literally : 1. A fall or falling downward, or to the ground. "Each downfal of a flood the mountains pour From their rich bowels, rolls a silver shower." Dryden: Indian Emperor , i. 2. *2. That which falls suddenly downward; a waterfall. 3. A declivity in ground, a slope, a precipice. "We wad be a great deal the better o' twa or three rigs B. As adverb: downrightly 1. Lit .: On a slope downward or descent. "Heavy the third, and stiff, he sinks apaсе: And though 'tis downhill all, but creeps along the race." Dryden: Ovid; Metamorphoses XV. 2. Fig .: Toward ruin or disgrace; as, He is going fast downhill. *down-lět, s. [English down , and sufl. -let .] A pa age down. "A down let to that bottomle pit."-Allestree: Forty Sermons, i. 137. *down-looked, a. [Eng.down ; look : -ed . Have ing a dejected look; dispirited, depre ed, gloomy, sad. "Men were they all of evil mien, Downlooked, unwilling to be seen." Scott: Lord of the Isles, iii. 19. down-ly-ing, a. & s. [English, down, and lying (q. v.).] A. As adjective : 1. Lit .: Lying on the ground or on a place of rest. 2. Fig .: About to be brought to bed or in travail of childbirth. B. As substantive: I. Literally: 1. The act of lying down or of taking repose. 2. The time of retiring to rest or of taking repose. "All these [servants] were daily attending down lying and uprising."-Cavendish: Life of Wolsey. II. Figuratively : 1. The act of giving birth to a child; childbirth; the time of parturition. "Mrs. Bal whidder was at the down lying with my eldest son."- Galt : Annals of the Parish , p. 91. 2. The act of sitting down or taking up a position before a fortified place in order to besiege it. "Perceiving what hurt the enemy was able to have done us, before our down tying ." - Monro: Expedition, pt. ii., p. 16.