1. The fine soft feathers of fowls, particularly of the duck kind. The eider duck yields the best kind. Also, fine hair; as the down of the chin. NWAD DOWN.2
2. The pubescence of plants, a fine hairy substance. NWAD DOWN.3
3. The pappus or little crown of certain seeds of plants; a fine feathery or hairy substance by which seeds are conveyed to distance by the wind; as in dandelion and thistle. NWAD DOWN.4
4. Any thing that soothes or mollifies. NWAD DOWN.5
Thou bosom softness; down of all my cares. NWAD DOWN.6
1. A bank or elevation of sand, thrown up by the sea. NWAD DOWN.8
2. A large open plain, primarily on elevated land. Sheep feeding on the downs. NWAD DOWN.9
1. Along a descent; from a higher to a lower place; as, to run down a hill; to fall down a precipice; to go down the stairs. NWAD DOWN.11
2. Toward the mouth of a river, or toward the place where water is discharged into the ocean or a lake. We sail or swim down a stream; we sail down the sound from New York to New London. Hence figuratively, we pass down the current of life or of time. NWAD DOWN.12
Down the sound, in the direction of the ebb-tide towards of the sea. NWAD DOWN.13
Down the country, towards the sea, or towards the part where rivers discharge their waters into the ocean. NWAD DOWN.14
1. In a descending direction; tending from a higher to a lower place; as, he is going down. NWAD DOWN.16
2. On the ground, or at the bottom; as, he is down; hold him down. NWAD DOWN.17
3. Below the horizon; as, the sun is down. NWAD DOWN.18
4. In the direction from a higher to a lower condition; as, his reputation is going down. NWAD DOWN.19
5. Into disrepute or disgrace. A man may sometimes preach down error; he may write down himself or his character, or run down his rival; but he can neither preach nor write down folly, vice or fashion. NWAD DOWN.20
6. Into subjection; into a due consistence; as, to boil down, in decoctions and culinary processes. NWAD DOWN.21
7. At length; extended or prostrate, on the ground or on any flat surface; as, to lie down; he is lying down. NWAD DOWN.22
Up and down, here and there; in a rambling course. NWAD DOWN.23
It is sometimes used without a verb, as down, down; in which cases, the sense is known by the construction. NWAD DOWN.24
Down with a building, is a command to pull it down, to demolish it. NWAD DOWN.25
Down with him, signifies, throw him. NWAD DOWN.26
Down, down, may signify, come down, or go down, or take down, lower. NWAD DOWN.27
It is often used by seamen, down with the fore sail, etc. NWAD DOWN.28
Locke uses it for go down, or be received; as, any kind of food will down; but the use is not elegant, nor legitimate. NWAD DOWN.29
Sidney uses it as a verb, To down proud hearts, to subdue or conquer them; but the use is not legitimate. NWAD DOWN.30
1. A falling, or body of things falling; as the downfall of a flood. NWAD DOWNFALL.2
2. Ruin; destruction; a sudden fall; or ruin by violence, in distinction from slow decay or declension; as the downfall of the Roman empire, occasioned by the conquests of the Northern nations; the downfall of a city. NWAD DOWNFALL.3
3. The sudden fall, depression or ruin of reputation or estate. We speak of the downfall of pride or glory, and of distinguished characters. NWAD DOWNFALL.4
And though tis downhill all. NWAD DOWNHILL.2
A downhill greensward. NWAD DOWNHILL.4
1. Right down; straight down; perpendicularly. NWAD DOWNRIGHT.2
A giant cleft downright. NWAD DOWNRIGHT.3
2. In plain terms; without ceremony or circumlocution. NWAD DOWNRIGHT.4
We shall chide downright. NWAD DOWNRIGHT.5
3. Completely; without stopping short; as, she fell downright into a fit. NWAD DOWNRIGHT.6
1. Directly to the point; plain; open; artless; undisguised; as downright madness; downright nonsense; downright wisdom; downright falsehood; downright atheism. NWAD DOWNRIGHT.8
2. Plain; artless; unceremonious; blunt; as, he spoke in his downright way. NWAD DOWNRIGHT.9
Thou knowest my down-sitting and my uprising. Psalm 139:2. NWAD DOWN-SITTING.2
1. From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course, whether directly toward the center of the earth, or not; as, to tend downward; to move or roll downwards; to look downward; to take root downwards. NWAD DOWNWARD.2
2. In a course or direction from a head, spring, origin or source. Water flows downward toward the sea; we sailed downward on the stream. NWAD DOWNWARD.3
3. In a course of lineal descent from an ancestor, considered as a head; as, to trace successive generations downward from Adam or Abraham. NWAD DOWNWARD.4
4. In the course of falling or descending from elevation or distinction. NWAD DOWNWARD.5
1. Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place, as on a slope or declivity, or in the open air; tending towards the earth or its center; as a downward course; he took his way with downward force. NWAD DOWNWARD.7
2. Declivous; bending; as the downward heaven. NWAD DOWNWARD.8
3. Descending from a head, origin or source. NWAD DOWNWARD.9
4. Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected; as downward thoughts. NWAD DOWNWARD.10
1. Covered with down or nap; as a downy feather; downy wings. NWAD DOWNY.2
2. Covered with pubescence or soft hairs, as a plant. NWAD DOWNY.3
3. Made of down or soft feathers; as a downy pillow. NWAD DOWNY.4
4. Soft, calm, soothing; as downy sleep. NWAD DOWNY.5
5. Resembling down. NWAD DOWNY.6
1. The money, goods or estate which a woman brings to her husband in marriage; the portion given with a wife. NWAD DOWRY.2
2. The reward paid for a wife. NWAD DOWRY.3
3. A gift; a fortune, given. NWAD DOWRY.4
1. To slumber; to sleep lightly. NWAD DOZE.2
If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him. NWAD DOZE.3
2. To live in a state of drowsiness; to be dull or half asleep; as, to doze away the time; to doze over a work. NWAD DOZE.4
1. A strumpet; a prostitute. NWAD DRAB.2
2. A low, sluttish woman. [This seems to be the sense in which it is generally used in New England.] NWAD DRAB.3
3. A kind of wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans. Its bottom is shelving or inclining that the water may drain off. NWAD DRAB.4
1. A Grecian coin. Of the value of seven pence, three farthings, sterling, or nearly fourteen cents. NWAD DRACHMA.2
2. The eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains, or three scruples; a weight used by apothecaries, but usually written dram. NWAD DRACHMA.3
1. In astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere, containing according to Flamstead, eighty stars. NWAD DRACO.2
2. A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds. NWAD DRACO.3
3. A genus of animals of two species. [See Dragon.] NWAD DRACO.4
1. In botany, a plant, a species of Arum, with a long stalk, spotted like a serpents belly. NWAD DRACUNCULUS.2
2. In medicine, a long slender worm, bred in the muscular parts of the arms and legs called Guinea worm. These are troublesome in tropical climates, and are usually extirpated by the point of a needle. NWAD DRACUNCULUS.3
1. A drawing; as, this horse is good for draft. In this sense, draught is perhaps most common. NWAD DRAFT.2
2. A drawing of men from a military band; a selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or any part of it, or from a military post. Sometimes a drawing of men from other companies or societies. NWAD DRAFT.3
Several of the States had supplied the deficiency by drafts to serve for the year. NWAD DRAFT.4
These important posts, in consequence of heavy drafts, were left weakly defended. NWAD DRAFT.5
3. An order from one man to another directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange. NWAD DRAFT.6
I thought it most prudent to defer the drafts, till advice was received of the progress of the loan. NWAD DRAFT.7
4. A drawing of lines for a plan; a figure described on paper; delineation; sketch; plan delineated. [See Draught.] NWAD DRAFT.8
5. Depth of water necessary to float a ship. [See Draught.] NWAD DRAFT.9
6. A writing composed. NWAD DRAFT.10
1. To draw the outline; to delineate. NWAD DRAFT.12
2. To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial or a lease. NWAD DRAFT.13
3. To draw men from a military band or post; to select; to detach. NWAD DRAFT.14
4. To draw men from any company, collection or society. NWAD DRAFT.15
This Cohen-Caph-El was some royal seminary in Upper Egypt, from whence they drafted novices to supply their colleges and temples. NWAD DRAFT.16
1. To pull; to haul; to draw along the ground by main force; applied particularly to drawing heavy things with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing. John 21:8. NWAD DRAG.2
2. To break land by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; a common use of this word in New England. NWAD DRAG.3
3. To draw along slowly or heavily; to draw any thing burdensome; as, to drag a lingering life. NWAD DRAG.4
4. To draw along in contempt, as unworthy to be carried. NWAD DRAG.5
He drags me at his chariot-wheels. NWAD DRAG.6
To drag one in chains. NWAD DRAG.7
5. To pull or haul about roughly and forcibly. NWAD DRAG.8
In seamens language, to drag an anchor, is to draw or trail it along the bottom when loosened, or when the anchor will not hold the ship. NWAD DRAG.9
1. To hang so low as to trail on the ground. NWAD DRAG.11
2. To fish with a drag; as, they have been dragging for fish all day, with little success. NWAD DRAG.12
3. To be drawn along; as, the anchor drags. NWAD DRAG.13
4. To be moved slowly; to proceed heavily; as, this business drags. NWAD DRAG.14
5. To hang or grate on the floor, as a door. NWAD DRAG.15
1. Something to be drawn along the ground, as a net or a hook. NWAD DRAG.17
2. A particular kind of harrow. NWAD DRAG.18
3. A car; a low cart. NWAD DRAG.19
4. In sea-language, a machine consisting of a sharp square frame of iron, encircled with a net, used to take the wheel off from the platform or bottom of the decks. NWAD DRAG.20
5. Whatever is drawn; a boat in tow; whatever serves to retard a ships way. NWAD DRAG.21
1. A kind of winged serpent, much celebrated in the romances of the middle ages. NWAD DRAGON.2
2. A fiery, shooting meteor, or imaginary serpent. NWAD DRAGON.3
Swift, swift, ye dragons of the night! That dawning may bear the ravens eye. NWAD DRAGON.4
3. A fierce, violent person, male or female; as, this man or woman is a dragon. NWAD DRAGON.5
4. A constellation of the northern hemisphere. [See Draco.] NWAD DRAGON.6
In Scripture, dragon seems sometimes to signify a large marine fish or serpent, Isaiah 27:1. Where the leviathan is also mentioned; also Psalm 74:13. NWAD DRAGON.7
Sometimes it seems to signify a venomous land serpent. Psalm 91:13. The dragon shalt thou trample under foot. NWAD DRAGON.8
It is often used for the devil, who is called the old serpent. Revelation 20:2. NWAD DRAGON.9
1. A little dragon. NWAD DRAGONET.2
2. A fish with a slender round body, colored with yellow, blue and white; the head is large and depressed at the top and has two orifices, through which it breathes and ejects water, like the cetaceous tribe. NWAD DRAGONET.3
Dragons Head and Tail, in astronomy, are the nodes of the planets, or the two points in which the orbits of the planets intersect the ecliptic. NWAD DRAGONS-HEAD.2
1. To persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers. NWAD DRAGOON.3
2. To enslave or reduce to subjection by soldiers. NWAD DRAGOON.4
3. To harass; to persecute; to compel to submit by violent measures; to force. [This is the more usual sense.] NWAD DRAGOON.5
The colonies may be influenced to any thing, but they can de dragooned to nothing. NWAD DRAGOON.6
1. To filter; to cause to pass through some porous substance. NWAD DRAIN.2
Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth, hath become fresh. NWAD DRAIN.3
2. To empty or clear of liquor, by causing the liquor to drop or run off slowly; as, to drain a vessel or its contents. NWAD DRAIN.4
3. To make dry; to exhaust of water or other liquor, by causing it to flow off in channels, or through porous substances; as, to drain land; to drain a swamp or marsh. NWAD DRAIN.5
4. To empty; to exhaust; to draw off gradually; as, a foreign war drains a country of specie. NWAD DRAIN.6
1. To flow off gradually; as, let the water of low ground drain off. NWAD DRAIN.8
2. To be emptied of liquor, by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain; let the cloth hand and drain. NWAD DRAIN.9
1. The male of the duck kind. NWAD DRAKE.2
2. [L., dragon.] A small piece of artillery. NWAD DRAKE.3
3. The drake-fly. NWAD DRAKE.4
1. Among druggists and physicians, a weight of the eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains. In avoirdupois weight, the sixteenth part of an ounce. NWAD DRAM.2
2. A small quantity; as no dram of judgment. NWAD DRAM.3
3. As much spirituous liquor as is drank at once; as a dram of brandy. Drams are the slow poison of life. NWAD DRAM.4
4. Spirit; distilled liquor. NWAD DRAM.5
At Riga in 1204 was acted a prophetic play, that is, a dramatized extract from the history of the Old and New Testaments. NWAD DRAMATIZE.2
1. Clothwork; the trade of making cloth. NWAD DRAPERY.2
2. Cloth; stuffs of wool. NWAD DRAPERY.3
3. In sculpture and painting, the representation of the clothing or dress of human figures; also, tapestry, hangings, curtains, etc. NWAD DRAPERY.4