Definition of down

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Down (adv.) From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence; as, to boil down in cookery, or in making decoctions..

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Blank :: Blank (a.) Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror..
Drench :: Drench (v. t.) To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic..
Detrude :: Detrude (v. t.) To thrust down or out; to push down with force.
Lease :: Lease (v. t.) To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise; as, a landowner leases a farm to a tenant; -- sometimes with out..
Downright :: Downright (adv.) Straight down; perpendicularly.
Overthrow :: Overthrow (v. t.) To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down.
Level :: Level (v. t.) To bring to a lower level; to overthrow; to topple down; to reduce to a flat surface; to lower.
Downhearted :: Downhearted (a.) Dejected; low-spirited.
Depose :: Depose (v. t.) To testify under oath; to bear testimony to; -- now usually said of bearing testimony which is officially written down for future use.
Down-share :: Down-share (n.) A breastplow used in paring off turf on downs.
Staked :: Stake (v. t.) That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
Stoop :: Stoop (v. t.) To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor..
Undulation :: Undulation (n.) A motion to and fro, up and down, or from side to side, in any fluid or elastic medium, propagated continuously among its particles, but with no translation of the particles themselves in the direction of the propagation of the wave; a wave motion; a vibration..
Scatter :: Scatter (v. t.) To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order..
Ptilopaedic :: Ptilopaedic (a.) Having nearly the whole surface of the skin covered with down; dasypaedic; -- said of the young of certain birds.
Base :: Base (a.) To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower..
Outbrazen :: Outbrazen (v. t.) To bear down with a brazen face; to surpass in impudence.
Quell :: Quell (v. t.) To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
Taproot :: Taproot (n.) The root of a plant which penetrates the earth directly downward to a considerable depth without dividing.
Plyer :: Plyer (n.) A kind of balance used in raising and letting down a drawbridge. It consists of timbers joined in the form of a St. Andrew's cross.
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