Hills afford prospects, as they must needs acknowledge who have been on the downs of Sussex. Ray.

She went by dale, and she went by down. Tennyson.

Seven thousand broad-tailed sheep grazed on his downs. Sandys.

On the 11th [June, 1771] we run up the channel . . . at noon we were abreast of Dover, and about three came to an anchor in the Downs, and went ashore at Deal. Cook (First Voyage).

It the downs of life too much outnumber the ups. M. Arnold.

It will be rain to-night. Let it come down. Shak.

I sit me down beside the hazel grove. Tennyson.

And that drags down his life. Tennyson.

There is not a more melancholy object in the learned world than a man who has written himself down. Addison.

The French . . . shone down [i. e., outshone] the English. Shak.

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Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. D. Webster.

* Down is sometimes used elliptically, standing for go down, come down, tear down, take down, put down, haul down, pay down, and the like, especially in command or exclamation.

Down, therefore, and beg mercy of the duke. Shak.

If he be hungry more than wanton, bread alone will down. Locke.

Down is also used intensively; as, to be loaded down; to fall down; to hang down; to drop down; to pay down.

The temple of Herè at Argos was burnt down. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

Down, as well as up, is sometimes used in a conventional sense; as, down East.

Persons in London say down to Scotland, etc., and those in the provinces, up to London. Stormonth.

Down helm (Naut.), an order to the helmsman to put the helm to leeward. -- Down on or upon (joined with a verb indicating motion, as go, come, pounce), to attack, implying the idea of threatening power.

Come down upon us with a mighty power. Shak.

-- Down with, take down, throw down, put down; -- used in energetic command. "Down with the palace; fire it." Dryden. -- To be down on, to dislike and treat harshly. [Slang, U.S.] -- To cry down. See under Cry, v. t. -- To cut down. See under Cut, v. t. -- Up and down, with rising and falling motion; to and fro; hither and thither; everywhere. "Let them wander up and down." Ps. lix. 15.

Down the country, toward the sea, or toward the part where rivers discharge their waters into the ocean. -- Down the sound, in the direction of the ebbing tide; toward the sea.

I remember how you downed Beauclerk and Hamilton, the wits, once at our house. Madame D'Arblay.

Down draught, a downward draft, as in a flue, chimney, shaft of a mine, etc. -- Down in the mouth, chopfallen; dejected.