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Flossy :: Flossy (a.) Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, floss; hence, light; downy..

Proneness :: Proneness (n.) The quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward; as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man..

Down :: Down (prep.) A state of depression; low state; abasement.

Override :: Override (v. t.) To ride over or across; to ride upon; to trample down.

Outstare :: Outstare (v. t.) To excel or overcome in staring; to face down.

Flag :: Flag (v. i.) To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp..

Couch :: Couch (v. i.) To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie..

Decurrent :: Decurrent (a.) Extending downward; -- said of a leaf whose base extends downward and forms a wing along the stem.

Down :: Down (prep.) A bank or rounded hillock of sand thrown up by the wind along or near the shore; a flattish-topped hill; -- usually in the plural.

Browbeat :: Browbeat (v. t.) To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses..

Downweed :: Downweed (n.) Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium..

A- :: A- () A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofd/ne off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English

Drift :: Drift (n.) A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework..

Collapse :: Collapse (n.) A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.

Digastric :: Digastric (a.) Having two bellies; biventral; -- applied to muscles which are fleshy at each end and have a tendon in the middle, and esp. to the muscle which pulls down the lower jaw..

De- :: De- () A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it is equivalent to Latin dis-apart, away; or sometimes to de. Cf. Dis-. It is negative and opposite in derange, deform, destroy, etc. It is intensive in deprave, despoil, declare, desolate, etc..

Downsitting :: Downsitting (n.) The act of sitting down; repose; a resting.

Sympode :: Symploce (n.) The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses; as, Justice came down from heaven to view the earth; Justice returned to heaven, and left the earth..

Windfallen :: Windfallen (a.) Blown down by the wind.

Precipitate :: Precipitate (v. t.) To throw headlong; to cast down from a precipice or height.

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