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wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not 
fatisfied. Pfalm-Y\x. 15. 
DOWN, inter 7. An exhortation to deflrmftion or de¬ 
molition.—Go, home pull down the Savoy ; others to the 
inns of court: down with them all. Shake/peare.- —A con¬ 
temptuous threat.— Down, down to hell, and fay I fent 
thee thither. Shake/peare. 
DOWN, {To go.~] To be digefled ; to be received.—If 
he be hungry more than wanton, bread alone will down ; 
and if lie be not hungry, ’tis not fit he fhould eat. Locke. 
To DOWN, v. a. To knock ; to fubdue; tofupprefs; 
to conquer: 
The hidden beauties feem’d in wait to lie, 
To down proud hearts that would not willing die. Sidney. 
DOWN, or Down Patrick, a city of Ireland, in the 
county of Down, and fee of a bifhop, united with Con¬ 
nor, called the bifiiop of Down and Connor : twenty- 
five miles eaft of Newry. Lat. 54. iS. N. Ion. 5. 37. W. 
Greenwich. 
DOWN, a county of Ireland; bounded on the north 
by the county of Antrim and Belfad Lough, on the eafi: 
and fouth by the Irifli fea, and on the wed by the county 
of Armagh ; about forty miles in length from north-eaft 
to fouth-wed, and about twenty-five in breadth. The 
number of houfes is computed at 36,636, and of inhabi¬ 
tants 204,500. The furface is irregular, about the center 
mountainous, but mod parts fertile. An irregularity of 
ground, well watered, abounding in bleach-greens, and 
full of neat and cleanly habitations, with an orchard to 
almod every cottage, adbrd a mod cheerful and pleafing 
profpeft of the comfort and opulence of the inhabitants, 
who are chiefly employed in the linen bufmefs. In the 
rougher parts of the country they breed a great number 
of liorfes, with which the fairs of didant counties are 
fupplied. This county derives equal advantages from its 
maritime fituation, and its inland waters. A canal is con¬ 
tinued from Newry to the South Bunn, and fo into Lough 
Neagh. From this lake to Belfad, another canal has been 
lately cut, at the expence of the marquis of Belfad ; and 
the river Lagan, which feparates Down from Antrim, is 
alfo made navigable. Downpatrick, Bangor, Hill (borough, 
Killyleagh, Newtown, and Newry, are its principal towns. 
DOWN-BED, f. Bed of down.—If he loved too much 
to lie upon his own down-bed of eafe, his fubjedts had the 
pleafure, during his reign, of lolling and dretching upon 
theirs. Marquis of Halifax. 
DOWN-TROD,/)flrf. adj. Trodden down: 
But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer 
As high in th’ air as this ungrateful king. Shake/peare. 
DOWN'CAST, adj. Bent down; directed to the 
ground : 
My wily nurfe by long experience found, 
And fird difcover’d to my foul its wound ; 
’Tis love, faid die ; and then my downcajl eyes, 
And guilty dumbnefs, witnefs’d my furprize. Dryden. 
DOWNE, or Downs, a townfhip of the American 
States, in Cumberland county, New Jerfey. 
DOWN'FAL, f. Ruin; calamity; fall from rank or 
date.—We have feen fome, by the ways by which they 
had defigned to rife uncontroulably, to have directly pro¬ 
cured their utter downfal. South. 
Why dod thou fay king Richard is depos’d ? 
Dar’ft thou, thou little better thing than earth, 
Divine his downfal? Shake/peare. 
A fudden fall, or body of things falling: 
Each downfal of a flood the mountains pour 
From their rich bowels, rolls a (ilver dream. Dryden. 
Dedrudtion of fabrics: 
Not more aghad the matrons of renown, 
When tyrant Nero burn’d the imperial town, 
Shriek’d for the downfal in a doleful cry, 
For which their guiltlefs lords were doom’d to die, Dryd, 
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POWN'FALLEN, part. adj. Ruined; fallen.'—The 
land is now divorced by the downfallen deep cliff’s on the 
farther fide. Carew. 
DOWN'GYRED, adj. Let down in circular wrinkles: 
Lord Hamlet, with his dockings loofe, 
Ungarter’d, and downgyred to his ancles. Shake/peare. 
DOWN'HAM, a large town in the county of Norfolk, 
pleafantly fituated on the declivity of a hill, twelve miles 
from Lynn, thirteen from Witbeach, eighteen from Ely, 
and eighty-fix from London. Here is an ancient done- 
bridge over the river Ouze, which receives the Cam at 
Denver fluice, (a noble piece of done-work,) and the 
Neene at Salter’s Load fluice, and empties itfelf into_an 
arm of the German fea af Lynn. Hollingflied fays, that, 
in October 1563, there were taken at this bridge feven- 
teen mondrous fifhes, from twenty to twenty-feven feet 
long. It has two markets weekly, on Mondays and Sa¬ 
turdays ; and two fairs annually, on the 8th of May, and 
13th of November. Downham has been long famous for 
its trade- in butter. Formerly 2000 firkins have been 
brought to this market weekly; but now fcarcely 500 
are averaged. The butter-market is held by the water- 
fide ; the butter is fent to London by way of Cambridge, 
and thus acquires the name of Cambridge butter. 
DOWN'HAUL, J. [afea-term.] A rope tied to the 
upper corner of a fail to pull it down. 
To DOWN'HAUL, v. a. To pull down. 
DOWN'HILL,/. Declivity; defeent: 
Heavy the third, and diff, he finks apace ;. 
And tho’ ’tis downhill all, but creeps along the race. Dryd. 
DOWN'HILL, adj. Declivous; defeending.—And the 
fird deps a downhill greenfward yields. Congreve. 
DOWN'INGS, a pod-town of the American States, 
Pennfylvania, Chefter county, on the ead fide of Brandy¬ 
wine creek: thirty-three’miles wed by north of Phila¬ 
delphia, and near feven north-wed of Wedcheder, 
DOWN'LOOKED, adj. Having a dejeCted counte¬ 
nance ; gloomy ; fullen ; melancholy : 
Jealoufy, fuffus’d with jaundice in her eyes, 
Difcolouring all die view’d, in tawney drefs’d ; 
Downlook’d, and with a cuckoo on her fift. Dryden. 
DOWN'LYING, adj. About to be in travail of child¬ 
birth. 
DOWN'RIGFIT, adv. Straight or right down ; down 
perpendicularly-: 
A giant’s (lain in fight, 
Or mow’d o’erthwart, or cleft downright. Hudibras. 
In plain terms, without ceremony : 
Elves, away ! 
We {hall chide downright if I longer day. Shake/peare. 
Completely; wuthout flopping fliort.—This paper put 
Mrs. Bull in fuch a paffion, that (he fell downright into a 
fit. Arbuthnot. 
DOWN'RIGHT, adj. Plain; open; apparent; undif- 
guifed.—It is downright madnefs to (trike where we have 
no power to hurt. L’Efrange .—Diredtly tending to the 
point; plain; artlefs.—I would rather have a plain down¬ 
right w'lidom, than a foolifh and afledted eloquence. Ben 
jfonfon. —Unceremonious; honedly Curly.—When it came 
to the count to fpeak, old Fact fo dared him in the face, 
after his plain downright way, that the count was ftruck 
dumb. Addifon. —Plain; without palliation.—Religion 
1’eems not in danger from downright atheifm, fince rational 
men mud reject that for want of proof. Rogers. 
DOWNS, f. A bank or elevation of fand, which the 
fea gathers and forms along its fliores; and which ferves 
it as a barrier. The word is formed from the French 
dune, of the Celtic dum, a mountain. This name is par¬ 
ticularly applied to a well-known road for (hipping, in 
the Englidi channel, oppofite the eaflern coaff of the coun¬ 
ty of Kent, from Dover to the North Foreland; where 
both the outward and homeward-bound fliips frequently 
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