Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DOWN'HILL, a.

Declivous; descending; sloping. A downhill greensward. – Congreve.

DOWN'HILL, n.

Declivity; descent; slope. And though 'tis downhill all. – Dryden.

DOWN'LOOK-ED, a.

Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen; as, jealousy downlooked. – Dryden.

DOWN'LY-ING, a.

About to be in travail of childbirth. – Johnson.

DOWN'LY-ING, n.

The time of retiring to rest; time of repose. – Cavendish.

DOWN'RIGHT, a.

1. Directly to the point; plain; open; artless; undisguised; as, downright madness; downright nonsense; downright wisdom; downright falsehood; downright atheism.
2. Plain; artless; unceremonious; blunt; as, he spoke in his downright way.

DOWN'RIGHT, adv.

1. Right down; straight down; perpendicularly. A giant cleft downright. – Hudibras.
2. In plain terms; without ceremony or circumlocution. We shall chide downright. – Shak.
3. Completely; without stopping short; as, she fell downright into a fit. – Arbuthnot.

DOWN'RIGHT-LY, adv.

Plainly; in plain terms; bluntly. – Barrow.

DOWN'-SIT-TING, n.

The act of sitting down; repose; a resting. Thou knowest my down-sitting and my up-rising. – Ps. cxxxix.

DOWN'TROD, or DOWN'TROD-DEN, a.

Trodden down; trampled down. – Shak.

DOWN'WARD, a.

1. Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place, as on a slope or declivity, or in the open air; tending toward the earth or its center; as, a downward course; he took his way with downward force. – Dryden.
2. Declivous; bending; as, the downward heaven. – Dryden.
3. Descending from a head, origin or source.
4. Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected; as downward thoughts. Sidney.

DOWN'WARD, adv. [Sax. duneweard. See Ward.]

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 downward; to look downward; to take root downward.
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.
3. In a course of lineal descent from an ancestor, considered as a head; as, to trace successive generations downward from Adam or Abraham.
4. In the course of falling or descending from elevation or distinction.

DOWN'WEED, n.

Cottonweed, a downy plant. – Barret.

DOWN'Y, a. [See Down.]

1. Covered with down or nap; as, a downy feather; downy wings.
2. Covered with pubescence or soft hairs, as a plant.
3. Made of down or soft feathers; as, a downy pillow.
4. Soft, calm, soothing; as, downy sleep.
5. Resembling down.

DOW'RY, n. [See Dower. This word differs not from dower. It is the same word differently written, and the distinction made between them is arbitrary.]

1. The money, goods or estate which a woman brings to her husband in marriage; the portion given with a wife. – Shak. Dryden.
2. The reward paid for a wife. – Cowley.
3. A gift; a fortune given. – Johnson.

DOWSE, v.t. [Sw. daska.]

To strike on the face. [Not in use.] – Bailey.

DOWST, n.

A stroke. [Not in use.] – Beaum.

DOX-O-LOG'IC-AL, a.

Pertaining to doxology; giving praise to God. – Howell.

DOX-OL'O-GIZE, v.i.

To give glory to God, as in doxology.

DOX-OL'O-GIZ-ING, ppr.

Giving glory to God.

DOX-OL'O-GY, n. [Gr. δοξολογια; δοξα, praise, glory, and λεγω, to speak.]

In Christian worship, a hymn in praise of the Almighty; a particular form of giving glory to God.

DOX'Y, n. [Qu. Sw. docka, a baby, doll or plaything.]

A prostitute. – Shak.

DOZE, v.i. [Dan. döser, to stifle, suppress or quiet; to make heavy, sleepy, or drowsy; dysser, to lull to sleep. The Saxon has dwæs, dwes, dull, stupid, foolish, D. dwaas. The Saxon dysig is rendered foolish or dizzy. See Dote, and Class Ds, No. 1, 3.]

1. To slumber; to sleep lightly. If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him. – L'Estrange.
2. To live in a state of drowsiness; to be dull or half asleep; as, to doze over a work. – Dryden. Pope.

DOZE, v.t.

1. To pass or spend in drowsiness; as, to doze away one's time.
2. To make dull; to stupefy. Dryden uses the participle dozed, “Dozed with his fumes.”

DOZ'ED, pp.

Slept lightly.