(a.) Downright; absolute; positive; as, a down denial.
(a.) Downward; going down; sloping; as, a down stroke; a down grade; a down train on a railway.
(n.) Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool
(n.) The soft under feathers of birds. They have short stems with soft rachis and bards and long threadlike barbules, without hooklets.
(n.) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, as of the thistle.
(n.) The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
(n.) That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down
(v. t.) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with 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.
(prep.) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep; -- usually in the plural.
(prep.) A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war.
(prep.) A state of depression; low state; abasement.
(adv.) In the direction of gravity or toward the center of the earth; toward or in a lower place or position; below; -- the opposite of up.
(adv.) From a higher to a lower position, literally or figuratively; in a descending direction; from the top of an ascent; from an upright position; to the ground or floor; to or into a lower or an inferior condition; as, into a state of humility, disgrace, misery, and the like; into a state of rest; -- used with verbs indicating motion.
(adv.) In a low or the lowest position, literally or figuratively; at the bottom of a decent; below the horizon; of the ground; in a condition of humility, dejection, misery, and the like; in a state of quiet.
(adv.) From a remoter or higher antiquity.
(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.
(adv.) In a descending direction along; from a higher to a lower place upon or within; at a lower place in or on; as, down a hill; down a well.
(adv.) Hence: Towards the mouth of a river; towards the sea; as, to sail or swim down a stream; to sail down the sound.
(v. t.) To cause to go down; to make descend; to put down; to overthrow, as in wrestling; hence, to subdue; to bring down.
(v. i.) To go down; to descend.
Example Sentences:
Downy
Definition:
(a.) Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs.
(a.) Made of, or resembling, down. Hence, figuratively: Soft; placid; soothing; quiet.
(a.) Cunning; wary.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have used bulked segregant analysis to identify three random amplified polymorphic DNA markers in lettuce linked to a gene for resistance to downy mildew.
(2) Downie holds that there is nothing to distinguish the doctor or lawyer from other occupations in terms of the criteria of self-interest and altruism.
(3) Of the three main groups of pesticides (insecticides, fungicides and herbicides), fungicides have probably the longest history, dating back to the accidental discovery in 1882 of Bordeaux mixture and the value of copper-based preparations for the control of vine downy mildew disease.
(4) Babesia moshkovskiiwas found in the blood of 6 of 30 downy (D) Prairie Falcons and in none of 5 adults (A) from Wyoming.
(5) A population of Arabidopsis thaliana growing locally in a suburb of Zürich called Weiningen was observed to be infected with downy mildew.
(6) John Downie, director of public affairs at SCVO, said: "We know that the top 20% of income earners are the most likely to vote, and as many as half of people in the bottom 20% don't vote.
(7) Downie concluded that the clamp-down was making it more difficult for the press to hold government accountable for its actions.
(8) In his report, Downie chronicled the Obama administration's use of the 1917 Espionage Act to prosecute leakers, and its development of a programme that requires government employees in every department to help prevent leaks to the press by monitoring the behaviour of their colleagues.
(9) John Downie, the SCVO's director of public affairs, said it welcomed Labour's plans to increase the powers and independence of local councils but said the party was resisting "the radical changes which are desperately needed to meet the aspirations of the Scottish people".
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Common loon ( Gavia immer ) with downy young riding on back, in a Matanuska Valley lake, Alaska.
(11) Rod Downie, polar expert at WWF-UK said: "With the speed of change we are now witnessing in the Arctic, the UK government must show national and global leadership in the urgent transition away from fossil fuels to a low carbon economy.
(12) CPJ’s critical appraisal of the NSA’s mass surveillance comes hard on the heels of a special report it published last October in which the former Washington Post editor Leonard Downie accused the Obama administration of blasting a chill through US journalism through its aggressive pursuit of official leakers.
(13) The colony texture of these mutants was downy and their mycelium sterile.
(14) #AustinJacksonStirkesOut 11.50pm BST Athletics 3 - Tigers 3, top of the 6th And then Reddick grounds out to second and that's shut-downy enough for Tigers fans who give him an ovation as his night is most likely over.
(15) Goats that have been selected for production of this fine, downy undercoat are referred to as "Cashmere" goats.
(16) According to Sky Sports News reporter Keith Downie , who is at Sunderland's training ground , John O'Shea just drove out of the car-park, rolled down his window and shouted "WES BROWN TO REAL MADRID!"
(17) All the canvases feature babies: gurgling smiles, downy hair, chubby wrists.
(18) Ellie Downie, from Nottingham, was only nine when her sister, Becky, a gymnast, made her Olympic debut in Beijing in 2008.
(19) A random cDNA clone was identified as distinguishing near-isogenic lines for downy mildew resistance in lettuce.
(20) The NSW party president, Chris Downy, is the chief executive officer of the Australian Wagering Council which lobbies on behalf of the online gambling industry.