At the downlying, at the travail in childbirth. [Scot.]

Downpour
(Down"pour`) n. A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.

Downright
(Down"right`) adv.

1. Straight down; perpendicularly.

2. In plain terms; without ceremony.

We shall chide downright, if I longer stay.
Shak.

3. Without delay; at once; completely. [Obs.]

She fell downright into a fit.
Arbuthnot.

Downright
(Down"right`), a.

1. Plain; direct; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way.

A man of plain, downright character.
Sir W. Scott.

2. Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as, downright atheism.

The downright impossibilities charged upon it.
South.

Gloomy fancies which in her amounted to downright insanity.
Prescott.

Down"right`ly, adv.Down"right`ness, n.

Down-share
(Down"-share`) n. A breastplow used in paring off turf on downs. [Eng.] Knight.

Downsitting
(Down"sit`ting) n. The act of sitting down; repose; a resting.

Thou knowest my downsitting and my uprising.
Ps. cxxxix. 2.

Downstairs
(Down"stairs) adv. Down the stairs; to a lower floor.a. Below stairs; as, a downstairs room.

Downsteepy
(Down"steep`y) a. Very steep. [Obs.] Florio.

Downstream
(Down"stream`) adv. Down the stream; as, floating downstream.

Downstroke
(Down"stroke`) n. (Penmanship) A stroke made with a downward motion of the pen or pencil.

Downthrow
(Down"throw`) n. (Geol.) The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one side of a fault. See Throw, n.

Downtrod
(Down"trod` Down"trod`den) a. Trodden down; trampled down; abused by superior power. Shak.

Downward
(Down"ward Down"wards) adv. [AS. adnweard. See Down, adv., and -ward.]

Downlying
(Down"ly`ing) n. The time of retiring to rest; time of repose. Cavendish.


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