Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DOWN'HILL – DOZ'ED
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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.
- Directly to the point; plain; open; artless; undisguised; as, downright madness; downright nonsense; downright wisdom; downright falsehood; downright atheism.
- Plain; artless; unceremonious; blunt; as, he spoke in his downright way.
DOWN'RIGHT, adv.
- Right down; straight down; perpendicularly. A giant cleft downright. – Hudibras.
- In plain terms; without ceremony or circumlocution. We shall chide downright. – Shak.
- 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.
- 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.
- Declivous; bending; as, the downward heaven. – Dryden.
- Descending from a head, origin or source.
- Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected; as downward thoughts. Sidney.
DOWN'WARD, adv. [Sax. duneweard. See Ward.]
- 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.
- In a course or direction from a head, spring, origin or source. Water flows downward toward the sea; we sailed downward on the stream.
- In a course of lineal descent from an ancestor, considered as a head; as, to trace successive generations downward from Adam or Abraham.
- In the course of falling or descending from elevation or distinction.
DOWN'WEED, n.
Cottonweed, a downy plant. – Barret.
DOWN'Y, a. [See Down.]
- Covered with down or nap; as, a downy feather; downy wings.
- Covered with pubescence or soft hairs, as a plant.
- Made of down or soft feathers; as, a downy pillow.
- Soft, calm, soothing; as, downy sleep.
- 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.]
- The money, goods or estate which a woman brings to her husband in marriage; the portion given with a wife. – Shak. Dryden.
- The reward paid for a wife. – Cowley.
- 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.]
- To slumber; to sleep lightly. If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him. – L'Estrange.
- To live in a state of drowsiness; to be dull or half asleep; as, to doze over a work. – Dryden. Pope.
DOZE, v.t.
- To pass or spend in drowsiness; as, to doze away one's time.
- To make dull; to stupefy. Dryden uses the participle dozed, “Dozed with his fumes.”
DOZ'ED, pp.
Slept lightly.