Vocabulary : Dowl to Downfall

Dowl : Same as Dowle.
Dowlas : A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, now nearly replaced by calico.
Dowle : Feathery or wool-like down; filament of a feather.
Down : Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool ;; The soft under feathers of birds. They have short stems with soft rachis and bards and long threadlike barbules, without hooklets. ;; The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, as of the thistle. ;; The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear. ;; That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down ;; To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down. ;; 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. ;; 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. ;; A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war. ;; A state of depression; low state; abaseme
Downbear : To bear down; to depress.
Downcast : Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt. ;; Downcast or melancholy look. ;; A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.
Downcome : Sudden fall; downfall; overthrow. ;; A pipe for leading combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned.
Downcomer : A pipe to conduct something downwards; ;; A pipe for leading the hot gases from the top of a blast furnace downward to the regenerators, boilers, etc. ;; In some water-tube boilers, a tube larger in diameter than the water tubes to conduct the water from each top drum to a bottom drum, thus completing the circulation.
Downed : of Down
Downfall : A sudden fall; a body of things falling. ;; A sudden descent from rank or state, reputation or happiness; destruction; ruin.
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