Down, down, s

the fine soft feathers of fowls, particularly of the duck kind; fine hair; a fine hairy substance, the pubescence of flowers; a fine feathery substance, by which seeds are wafted to a distance; anything that soothes, or a place of soft repose (Ice. dun). tract of naked hilly land used only for pasturing sheep. The Downs a well-known road for shipping in the English Channel near Deal. (A.S. dun, a hill.) lower place; toward the mouth of a river; from the capital of a country; from the head terminus ofa railway. Down the sound, in the direction of the ebb-tide toward the sea. Down the country, toward the sea or from the metropolis. the capital or the centre; on the ground; below the horizon; from a higher to a lower condition; into disrepute or disgrace; into smaller bulk; from earlier to later times; extended or prostrate on the ground or state. on any Up flat and surface down, here: a. and downcast there.: Down s. a depre ed with, to pull down or throw or take down. (A.S. dun, ahill.)