Bested and Down

noun

• Soft fine feathers.
  • synonyms: down feather
• American football. ( a complete play to advance the football)
  • usage: "you have four downs to gain ten yards"
• English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896.
  • synonyms: John L. H. Down
• Usually plural. ( a rolling treeless highland with little soil)
• Fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs.
  • synonyms: pile

verb

• Drink down entirely.
  • usage: "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They popped a few beer after work"
  • synonyms: toss off, pop, bolt down, belt down, pour down, drink down, kill
• Eat immoderately.
  • usage: "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
  • synonyms: devour, consume, go through
• Bring down or defeat (an opponent. )
• Shoot at and force to come down.
  • usage: "the enemy landed several of our aircraft"
  • synonyms: shoot down, land
• Cause to come or go down.
  • usage: "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect"; "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet"
  • synonyms: knock down, cut down, push down, pull down
• Improve or perfect by pruning or polishing.
  • usage: "refine one's style of writing"
  • synonyms: polish, refine, fine-tune

adjective

• Being or moving lower in position or less in some value.
  • usage: "lay face down"; "the moon is down"; "our team is down by a run"; "down by a pawn"; "the stock market is down today"
• Extending or moving from a higher to a lower place.
  • usage: "the down staircase"; "the downward course of the stream"
  • synonyms: downward
• Becoming progressively lower.
  • usage: "the down trend in the real estate market"
• Being put out by a strikeout.
  • usage: "two down in the bottom of the ninth"
• Understood perfectly.
  • usage: "had his algebra problems down"
  • synonyms: down pat, mastered
• Lower than previously.
  • usage: "the market is depressed"; "prices are down"
  • synonyms: depressed
• Shut.
  • usage: "the shades were down"
• Not functioning (temporarily or permanently. )
  • usage: "we can't work because the computer is down"
• Filled with melancholy and despondency .
  • usage: "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"
  • synonyms: gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited

adverb

• Spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position.
  • usage: "don't fall down"; "rode the lift up and skied down"; "prices plunged downward"
  • synonyms: downwards, downward, downwardly
• Away from a more central or a more northerly place.
  • usage: "was sent down to work at the regional office"; "worked down on the farm"; "came down for the wedding"; "flew down to Florida"
• Paid in cash at time of purchase.
  • usage: "put ten dollars down on the necklace"
• From an earlier time.
  • usage: "the story was passed down from father to son"
• To a lower intensity.
  • usage: "he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black"
• In an inactive or inoperative state.
  • usage: "the factory went down during the strike"; "the computer went down again"

• (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.
• (n.) That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
• (a.) Downcast; as, a down look.
• (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.
• (v.t.) To cause to go down; to make descend; to put down; to overthrow, as in wrestling; hence, to subdue; to bring down.
• (a.) Downward; going down; sloping; as, a down stroke; a down grade; a down train on a railway.
• (n.) The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
• (n.) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, as of the thistle.
• (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.) 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.
• (n.) The soft under feathers of birds. They have short stems with soft rachis and bards and long threadlike barbules, without hooklets.
• (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.
• (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.) Hence: Towards the mouth of a river; towards the sea; as, to sail or swim down a stream; to sail down the sound.
• (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.
• (v.i.) To go down; to descend.
• (adv.) From a remoter or higher antiquity.
• (v.t.) To cover, ornament, line or stuff with down.
• (a.) Downright; absolute; positive; as, a down denial.
• (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.
• (n.) Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool.