Word Meanings - DOWN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool; esp.: The soft under feathers of birds. They have short stems with soft rachis and bards and long threadlike barbules, without hooklets.

Additional info about word: DOWN

1. Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool; esp.: The soft under feathers of birds. They have short stems with soft rachis and bards and long threadlike barbules, without hooklets. The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, as of the thistle. The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear. And the first down begins to shade his face. Dryden. 2. That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down When in the down I sink my head, Sleep, Death's twin brother, times my breath. Tennyson. Thou bosom softness, down of all my cares! Southern. Down tree , a tree of Central America , the seeds of which are enveloped in vegetable wool.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DOWN)

• Cast
• Hurl
• send down
• throw
• fling
• pitch
• impel
• project
• construct
• mold
• frame
• Lay
• Place
• establish
• deposit
• allay
• prostrate
• arrange
• dispose
• put
• spread
• set down
• Melancholy
• Gloomy
• sad
• dejected
• disconsolate
• dismal
• moody
• hypochondriacal
• cast down
• Oppress
• Burden
• grind
• weigh down
• persecute
• aggrieve
• maltreat
• abuse
• overbear
• constrain

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DOWN)

• Recal
• withdraw
• draw
• retract
• pull
• attract
• rebound
• recoil
• adduce
• revert
• rebate

Related words: (words related to DOWN)

• FLOODER
  One who floods anything.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• FLUXATION
  The act of fluxing.
• FLUXILITY
  State of being fluxible.
• FLORESCENT
  Expanding into flowers; blossoming. (more info) blossom, incho. fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See
• FLORA
  The goddess of flowers and spring.
• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• FLAUTIST
  A player on the flute; a flutist.
• FLORENTINE
  Belonging or relating to Florence, in Italy. Florentine mosaic, a mosaic of hard or semiprecious stones, often so chosen and arranged that their natural colors represent leaves, flowers, and the like, inlaid in a background, usually of black or
• FLOSSIFICATION
  A flowering; florification. Craig.
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• FLAXWEED
  See TOADFLAX
• FLIPPER
  A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.
• FLOTA
  A fleet; especially, a
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• GRINDSTONE
  A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed,
• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• DEPOSITOR
  One who makes a deposit, especially of money in bank; -- the correlative of depository.
• DEFLOURER
  One who deflours; a ravisher.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• SUPERFLUITY
  1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• DEFLUX
  Downward flow. Bacon.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• DEFLUOUS
  Flowing down; falling off. Bailey.
• WHITE FLY
  Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.