Word Meanings - DOWNY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs. "A downy feather." Shak. Plants that . . . have downy or velvet rind upon their leaves. Bacon. 2. Made of, or resembling, down. Hence, figuratively: Soft; placid; soothing; quiet. "A downy
Additional info about word: DOWNY
1. Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs. "A downy feather." Shak. Plants that . . . have downy or velvet rind upon their leaves. Bacon. 2. Made of, or resembling, down. Hence, figuratively: Soft; placid; soothing; quiet. "A downy shower." Keble. "Downy pillow." Pope. Time steals on with downy feet. Young. 3. Cunning; wary. Latham.
Related words: (words related to DOWNY)
- FEATHERNESS
The state or condition of being feathery. - BACON
The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's - BACONIAN
Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - FEATHER-FEW
Feverfew. - COVERLET
The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser. - FEATHER-VEINED
Having the veins diverging from the two sides of a midrib. - PLACID
Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay. - VELVETBREAST
The goosander. - PUBESCENCE
1. The quality or state of being pubescent, or of having arrived at puberty. Sir T. Browne. 2. A covering of soft short hairs, or down, as one some plants and insects; also, the state of being so covered. - FEATHER-FOIL
An aquatic plant , having finely divided leaves. - COVERCLE
A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne. - FEATHER-EDGED
Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge of which is made as thin as practicable. - COVERT BARON
Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill. - FEATHERED
Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog. (more info) 1. Clothed, covered, or fitted with feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow. Rise from the ground like feathered - PLACIDNESS
The quality or state of being placid. - FEATHER-HEADED
Giddy; frivolous; foolish. G. Eliot. - QUIETER
One who, or that which, quiets. - SOOTHNESS
Truth; reality. Chaucer. - VELVETEEN
A kind of cloth, usually cotton, made in imitation of velvet; cotton velvet. - RECOVER
To cover again. Sir W. Scott. - DISQUIETTUDE
Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp. - DISQUIETLY
In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman. - HEREHENCE
From hence. - WHENCEFORTH
From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser. - UNQUIET
To disquiet. Ld. Herbert. - PINFEATHERED
Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed. - THENCEFROM
From that place.