Down

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DOWN, adv., prep. and v.1 Var. dial. uses in Sc. and Eng. Also in forms daan e.Lan.1; dahn w.Yks.; dain Chs.1 s.Chs.1; deawn Lan.1 e.Lan.1 m.Lan.1; doon Sc. Bnff.1 Nhb.1 Cum.1 Wm. n.Yks.2; doun Sc. (Jam.) Dur.1 [Sc. and n.Cy. dūn, w.Yks. dān, Lan. dēn, midl. daun, s.Cy. deun.] 1. adv. and prep.: Comb. with subst. adj., &c., meanings: (1) Down-alongs, small hills; (2) Down-bearing, (a) oppression; (b) the pangs of approaching parturition; (3) Down-bed, a bed on the floor; (4) Down-bout, a hard set-to; a tough battle; (5) Down-calving, in calf, and near the time of calving; (6) Down-cast, (a) a ‘trouble’ or dislocation of the strata or ‘fault’ by which a seam of coal and its associated beds are cast down to a lower level; (b) see Down-cast shaft; (7) Down-cast dike, see Down-cast (a); (8) Down-casting, (a) grieved, sorrowful; (b) depression; (9) Down-cast shaft, the shaft down which fresh air passes into a mine; (10) Down-come, (a) a heavy fall of rain, snow, &c.; (b) a descent, fall, gen. used fig. of a fall in the market or in social position, &c.; (c) a piece of luck; (d) of rain: to come down; (11) Down-comely, see Down-coming (b); (12) Down-comer, the spout or pipe which receives the collected eaves-drainage and conveys it down the side of a house to the ground; (13) Down-coming, (a) see Down-come (b); (b) ruinous, likely to fall; (14) Down-crying, disparaging, depreciating; (15) Down-dacious, audacious, impudent; (16) Down-dad, a puff of smoke coming into the room down the chimney; (17) Down-daggered, (18) Down-danted or Down-daunted, downcast, depressed, out of spirits; (19) Down-dap, ready money; (20) Down-digger, an expert or artful person; (21) Down-ding, sleet or snow; (22) Down-done, overcooked; (23) Down-drag, anything that brings a person down in the world: (24) Down-draught, (a) a blast down the chimney which sends the smoke into the room; (b) the swallowing process with liquids; (c) a drag, dead weight; also used fig.; (25) Down-draw, see Down-draught (c); (26) Down-drop, see Down-come (b); (27) Down-drug, see Down-draught (c); (28) Down-fall, (a) a fall of rain, snow, &c.; (b) a declivity in the ground, a slope; also used fig.; (c) the low parts around mountains where sheep retire for shelter in bad weather; (d) fig. a reverse, misfortune; (e) a disease in cows; (29) Down-fally, see Down-coming (b); (30) Down-fire, a fire on the hearth; (31) Down-gang, (a) a descending path; (b) a hatchway into a cellar; (c) a person who has a very large appetite; (32) Down-ganging, descending, going down; (33) Down-gate, see Down-gang (a, b); (34) Down-had, see Down-draught (c); (35) Down-hadden, repressed, kept down; (36) Down-hadding, repressing, holding down; (37) Down-haggard, disconsolate; (38) Down-head, fig. a pique, grudge; (39) Down-hearten, to feel disheartened; (40) Down-house, the back kitchen; the lower or downstairs apartment; (41) Down-kessen, downcast; (42) Down-lie, a grave, resting-place; (43) Down-ligging, (a) a lying-in, a confinement; (b) lying down, bedtime; (44) Down-ligging-time, (a) the time of childbirth; (b) see Down-ligging (b); (45) Down-lock, see below; (46) Down-look, a downcast, morose, displeased countenance; disapproval, displeasure; (47) Down-looking, (a) condescending, supercilious; (b) downcast, morose-looking; (c) ill-looking, having a bad expression; (48) Down-lying, see Down-ligging (a); (49) Down-moot, melancholy, in low spirits; (50) Down-most, lowest; (51) Down-old, broken down, of broken constitution; (52) Down-pin(s, (a) any one fallen down or brought low, esp. in phr. to feel like a or in the down pin(s; (b) those who are dead drunk in a carousal; (53) Down-richteous, downright; (54) Down-seat or Down-sit, a settlement, provision, esp. a settlement in marriage; (55) Down-set, (a) anything which produces great depression; (b) see Down-come (b); (c) a scolding by which one is rendered mute; a sarcastic rebuke which puts to silence; (56) Down-sett, a downward stroke; (57) Down-setter, a ‘settler,’ that which settles or puts an end to anything; (58) Down-sinking, depression, melancholy; (59) Down-sitting, (a) see Down-seat; (b) a location, home; (c) a sitting down to drink, a drinking bout, gen. in phr. at a down-sitting, all at once, straight off; (d) the session of a court; (60) Down-some, (61) Down-spirited, low-spirited, depressed, dismal; (62) Down-square, (63) Down-straight, honest, upright, straightforward; (64) Down-sway, a downward impetus or direction; (65) Down-tak, anything that enfeebles the body; (66) Down-throssen, see Down-thrussen; (67) Down-throw, (a) the dip or low side of a ‘hitch’ or ‘dike’ in a mine; (b) to overthrow, upset; (68) Down-thrussen, thrust down, put down by force; also used fig.; (69) Down-thrust or Down-thruch't, (a) a thrust down, pressure; (b) see Down-thrussen; (70) Down-thump, see Down-straight; (71) Down-(s-vein, a bed of stone in Swanage quarries used for pavements; (72) Down-weight, over-weight; (73) Down-writing, a mode of ‘slipping’ work by doing it only once instead of twice. (1) Dev. Grose (1790) MS. add. (M.) (2, a) Sc. Emptying their power and strength for the down-bearing of the Church of God, Thomson Cloud of Witnesses (1714) 346, ed. 1871. (b) Sc. (A.W.) (3) Sus.1 If he could put up with a down-bed he might stop all night (s.v. Dozzle). (4) e.An.1, Nrf.1 (5) w.Som.1 25 down-calving cows and heifers, Advt. of sale. (6, a) Nhb.1 Nhb., Dur. Greenwell Coal Tr. Gl. (ed. 1888). (b) Nhb., Dur. Greenwell Coal Tr. Gl. (ed. 1888). Dur. (J.J.B.) (7) Nhb., Dur. Nicholson Coal Tr. Gl. (1888). (8, a) Sc. Fleming Scriptures (1726). (b) Sc. You must not want your down-castings and desertions, Thomson Cloud of Witnesses (1714) 350, ed. 1871. (9) N.Cy.1, Nhb.1 Nhb., Dur. Nicholson Coal Tr. Gl. (1888). (10, a) Cai.1 Nhb.1 It's sic a doon-come as aa nivver saa i' me life. Wm. Ther'll be some down-come yet (B.K.). n.Yks.1, w.Yks.1 (b) Sc. I trow her pride got a down-come, Scott Bride of Lam. (1819) xxiv. Cai.1 Frf. Here was a bonnie dooncome to Whitesheaf's fancied severance o' the twa lovers, Willock Rosetty Ends (1886) 151, ed. 1889. Per. It'll be a doon-come tae him, a'm judgin', Ian Maclaren K. Carnegie (1896) 242. Fif. Tam speired hoo she liked the journey [in the balloon].... She replied, ‘Fine, Tammas; but the quick dooncome was the warst o't,’ McLaren Tibbie (1894) 15. Lth. O, waefu' was the douncome, waefu' was the fa'; Credit lost, ─ a bankrupt, Lumsden Sheep-head (1892) 82. Edb. As things now gang They'll [ ? there'll] be a down-come or it's lang, Macneill Bygane Times (1811) 29. Slk. As we get ower hee, we'll get a downcome in our turn, Hogg Tales (1838) 295, ed. 1866. N.Cy.1 Nhb.1 Gen. applied to reduced circumstances. ‘He's had a sair doon-come, poor body.’ Cum.1 n.Yks.1 She's had a sair down-come, she hev. Yance she war ower-mich set oop t'mak' her ain meat: she'll mebbe be matched t'come by't noo. w.Som.1 Zomebody zeed the squire's son out t'Australia, zome place, a loadin of a dung-butt. Well! nif that idn a down-come vor he, then tell me! (c) n.Cy. (Hall.) (d) Som. I warn' in afore it downcome (W.F.R.). (11) n.Lin.1 My hoose is a doon-cumly ohd plaace. (12) n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2 (13, a) Rnf. There'll be a fine tumble ere lang; I would glory to see their doun-comin', Barr Poems (1861) 115. n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2 (b) sw.Lin.1 It's a strange down-coming old place. (14) Lth. Her skeel in a' there's nae doun-cryin', Lumsden Sheep-head (1892) 151. (15) Wil. Slow Gl. (1892); Wil.1 Her's a right downdacious young vaggot, that her is! Dor. Gl. (1851); Dor.1 Som. Sweetman Wincanton Gl. (1885). w.Som.1 A [daewn-dae·urshus] young ozeburd. (16) Nhb.1 (17) Som. W. & J. Gl. (1873). Som., Dev. In allusion to an exercise called sword and dagger, Grose (1790) MS. add. (M.) (18) Dev.3 Pluck up like a man, dawnt be downdanted cuz yü can't marry she. There's plenty more wimmen in the wordle. Cor.1 ‘He's dreadfully down-daunted, daunted,’ regularly down in the mouth; Cor.2 (19) w.Som.1 Neef aay du buy· un muy·n, aa·l paa·y vaur-n daewn-daap· [If I buy it, mind, I will pay ready money for it]. (20) Bdf. Batchelor Anal. Eng. Lang. (1809) 131. (21) Fif. (Jam.) (22) Lin.1 That sirloin was prime, but it was down-done. (23) Bnff.1 That loss, it he hid wee's freen, wiz a gey sair doondrag till 'im. (24, a) Ayr. There was sic a doon dracht in the lum that the swurl of the reek made Robin hoast and beigh tremendeously, Service Dr. Duguid (ed. 1887) 251. n.Yks.2 (b) n.Yks.2 ‘They all had a desperate doon-draught,’ they had a great propensity to drunkenness. (c) Dmb. A doundraught to the Kirk ─ a reproach to religion, Cross Disruption (1844) xxxi. Rnf. Wives, and wives' friends,... are at least a damned down-draught, If they be poor, McGilvray Poems (ed. 1862) 70; We yield To nae downdraught but perfect eild, Picken Poems (1813) I. 68. Slk. Twa men on ae dowg [in swimming] 's a sair doundraucht, Chr. North Noctes (ed. 1856) II. 12. (25) Rnf. 'Neath Poortith's sair down-draw Some o' ye fag your days awa, Picken Poems (1813) I. 81. Rxb. A profligate son is said to be ‘a down-draw in a family’ (Jam.). (26) n.Lin. He maade ă oot-o'-th'-waay do-ment when hĕ got married, bud he's hed a doon-drop wi' her runnin' off wi' a tinkler (M.P.). (27) Bnff. Sae love in our hearts will wax stranger and mair Thro' crosses and down-drug, N. Antiq. (1814) 429 (Jam.). (28, a) Cai.1 Bnff.1 We've hid an unco doon-fa' o' snaw this winter. Kcd. There followed a doonfa' The like o' which, sin' Noah's flood, The warl’ never saw, Grant Lays (1884) 2. Lakel. Penrith Obs. (Dec. 28, 1897). Cum.1, Wm. (B.K.), n.Yks.2, w.Yks.1 w.Yks.2 w.Yks.3 w.Yks.4 Lan. A sawp o' deawnfo 'ud do a seet o' good just neaw, Waugh Sketches (1855) Grislehurst Boggart, 209; Lan.1, n.Lan.1, m.Lan.1 Chs.1 We mun have some sort of a dainfaw afore it's any warmer; Chs.3 s.Chs.1 Th)klaaydz bin lóo·kin ver·i laaw·ŭri: ah daayt it)s fŭr sùm ky'eynd ŭ daay·nfau· [Th' claïds bin lookin' very lowery: ah daït it's for some keind o' daïnfaw]. Not. (J.H.B.), s.Not. (J.P.K.) n.Lin.1 There'll be doon-fall afoore long; all th' baacon's ton'd as weet as muck. sw.Lin.1 I doubt we shall have some downfall. Rut.1 Theer'll be soom downfall of soom sort ere long. Lei.1 Theer'll be a downfall o' soom sort to-noight. War.3 Shr.1 It's despert coud; we sha'n a a down-fall afore lung. Brks.1, e.An.1 w.Som.1 I zim we be gwain to zee a downvall vore long, the wind tokenth vor't. (b) Sc. Ale, being thicker than water, Should in my throat get easy downfal, Pennecuick Tinklarian (ed. 1810) 5. Slk. We wad be a great deal the better... for a bit downfa' to the south, Hogg Perils of Man (1822) I. 63 (Jam.). (c) Peb. The proprietors of hill land pasturages... have obtained... the right of winter downfall for their sheep upon low lying contiguous arable lands belonging toother proprietors, Agric. Surv. 127 (Jam.). Cum.1 (d) Cai.1 Lnk. It's weel for us whiles that we get a doonfa'; we wadna ken pleasure if we never fan' pain, Lemon St. Mungo (1844) 32. n.Lin.1 (e) n.Lin.1 Dev. w.Times (Apr. 22, 1886) 2, col. 2. [These will be liable to the downfall either in the udder or foot, Lowson Mod. Farrier (1844) 217.] (29) n.Lin.1 (30) Sus. These ‘fire-backs’ are plates of iron placed behind our ‘down’ fires or fires on the hearth, Egerton Flks. and Ways (1884) 103. (31, a) n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2, m.Yks.1 (b) n.Yks.2 (c) Cai.1 A person with a great appetite is said to have a ‘geed doongyang.’ (32) n.Yks.2 ‘That doonganging geeat,’ the downward road of the Scriptures. (33) n.Yks.2 (34) n.Sc., Fif. It is said of a puny child, who has not grown in proportion to its years, ‘Illness has been a greit downhad’ (Jam.). (35) Ayr. I canna say that I was sairly doonhadden at hame, Service Dr. Duguid (ed. 1887) 30. (36) Per. Aften 'twad break frae the doun haudin po'er, Edwards Strathearn Lyrics (1889) 62. Fif. (Jam.) (37) Wil. Slow Gl. (1892); Wil.1 (38) Ayr. She took a doon-head at Merryhigen, an' cuist glamour on his kye, Service Dr. Duguid (ed. 1887) 218. (39) Wil.1 A be vurry bad, but I don't down-hearten about un. (40) N.Cy.1, Nhb.1 Cum. On one side of this entry is the door leading into the down-house or kitchen, where they brew, bake, &c., Clarke Lakes (1787) 20. Wm. The down house had no second story, and was open to the rafters, which were left naked.... Here the baking, brewing, washing, and such like, of the wealthier class of yeomanry was performed, Lonsdale Mag. (1822) III. 249; This apartment was not always separated from the hallan; but formed one common kitchen with it. In some houses we find a second story over the down house, LONSDALE Mag. 251; An out-house or down-house with set-pot, and a huge porch, completed the accommodation, Ferguson Hist. Wm. (1894) 292. n.Yks.2 (41) n.Yks. Thoo leeaks desprit doon-kessen, Tweddell Clevel. Rhymes (1875) 84, ed. 1892; n.Yks.2 (42) ne.Sc. A couthie doon-lie it maun hae been for ony corp amang sae mony hamely kent folks, Grant Keckleton, 28. (43, a) Cum.1 Wm. She's net far of her time o' doon liggin (B.K.). n.Yks.1, w.Yks.1 w.Yks.3, n.Lin.1 (b) n.Lin.1 Fra doon-liggin' to up-risin' I scarcelins cloäs'd my ees, I've been that pestered wi' faace-aache. (44) n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2 (45) Yks., Lan. Men engaged on canal-boats on their return journey to Liverpool from Leeds, or from any intermediate station, are said to be engaged on the back passage or down lock, Gl. Lab. (1894). (46) Bnff.1 He hiz a wile doonleuk, yon fabrick; he canna be the berry. Abd. 'Twas not for gear that I my fouks forsook, And ran the hazard of their sair downlook, Ross Helenore (1768) 92, ed. 1812. Rnf. These down-looks o' yours are standing yevidences against you, Magopico (ed. 1836) 34. (47, a) Lnk. A wheen o' yer doun-leuking dominie sinners, Watson Poems (1853) 47. (b) Bnff.1 (c) w.Som.1 U wuz au·vees u daew·n-lèok·een oa·zburd ─ aay bee vuur·ee glad tu yuur-z u-kaech· tu laa·s [He was always a bad-looking rascal; I am very glad to hear he is caught at last]. (48) Cai.1 Ayr. His wife was at the doon-lying, Service Dr. Duguid (ed. 1887) 121; The second Mrs. Balwhidder was at the downlying with my eldest son, Galt Ann. Parish (1821) viii. n.Cy. Grose (1790); N.Cy.1, Nhb.1, Dur.1 Lan. And she expecting her down-lying every day, Gaskell M. Barton (1848) ix; Lan.1 Hoo's just at th' deawn-lying; poor body! e.Lan.1 s.Not. She were just at 'er down-lyin' (J.P.K.). e.An.1 (49) Bnff.1 (50) Cai.1 Frf. The twa doonmaist panels o' the door were charred hauf through, Willock Rosetty Ends (1886) 88, ed. 1889. Per. They take the downmost road, Sandy Scott (1897) 50. (51) s.Not. 'E's a down-old man; 'e wain't last long I doubt (J.P.K.). (52, a) Nrf. My husband he felt like a downpin, Cozens-Hardy Broad Nrf. (1893) 41. e.Suf. He seems in the down pin (F.H.). w.Mid. To a child that has fallen down, ‘Hullo! There's a down-pin(s) Also said of any one who is lying on a couch or in bed, through illness. ‘You're a regular down-pin(s) to-day, poor old chap!’ (W.P.M.) (b) e.An.1 (53) Rnf. In my case I'd say that was doonrichteous greed, Neilson Poems (1877) 54. (54) Sc. You have a bein down-set. There's three thousand and seventy-five acres of as good sheep-walk as any in the whole countryside, Marriage (1818) I. 20 (Jam.). ne.Sc. Folks warna slack to say that I took him for the sake o' a comfortable doonsit, Grant Keckleton, 10. Bnff.1 ‘He ga's sin a gueede doon-sit, fin he pat 'im in o' that fairm.’ Very often employed to signify settlement in marriage; as, ‘She's gotten a braw doon-sit.’ Ayr. The downseat of the Craiglands was an almous deed to the best-tochered lass at the time, either in Carrick, Coil [Kyle], or Cunningham, Galt Sir A. Wylie (1822) lxxxvii. (55, a) Sc. ‘A downset of work,’ such work as overpowers with fatigue (Jam.). (b) Sc. He has gotten a dreadful downset (JAM.). (c) Bnff.1 (56) Fif. To bring his wappen down wi' beir [force], And cleeve their heads fram ear to ear, Wi' terrible down-sett, Tennant Papistry (1827) 46. (57) Slk. ‘Was not yon an awfu' speech?’ ‘Ay, it was a downsetter,’ Hogg Tales (1838) 346, ed. 1866. (58) Edb. Some expressing their fears and inward down-sinking, Moir Mansie Wauch (1828) ii. (59, a) Sc. There were girls enough... who would think it a fine down-setting to become Mrs. John Campbell, Keith Prue (1895) 209. Fif. She'll marry him for the position an' the good doon-sittin', an' no for his guid looks, Robertson Provost (1894) 38. Ayr. I doutna she will grip like a drowning creature at any comfortable down-sitting, Galt Lairds (1826) xxxix. Lth. I could wush a' my bairns as desirable a doonsittin', Swan Carlowrie (1895) vi. Gall. To be in danger of missing a down-setting after all, Crockett Bog-Myrtle (1895) 204. N.Cy.1 She wed him just for a down-sitting. (b) Rnf. I find my new dounsittin, In mony ways, a change richt joyous, Young Pictures (1865) 168. Lth. Sam's run plenty in his time To prize a cosh dounsittin', Lumsden Sheep-head (1892) 73. Nhb.1 Esp. applied to a place likely to prove of permanent comfort. ‘He's getten a canny doon-sittin.’ (c) Sc. (Jam.); They drank out the price at ae downsitting, Scott Old Mortality (1816) iii. Ayr. Who, like him, could... do so much justice to the ‘Tappit hen’ at a down-sitting, Ballads and Sngs. (1847) II. 10. (d) Sc. Mr. Gillespie came home at our first downsitting, Baillie Lett. (1776) 261; Sunday... before the downsitting of the General Assembly, Spalding Hist. Sc. (1796) I. 87 (Jam.). (60) e.Dev. I just looked in at the Bush, because my heart was downsome, Blackmore Perlycross (1894) viii. (61) n.Yks. She's doon-sperrited, poor thing, Linskill Haven Hill (1886) xii; He... leeakt az doon sperritted az a fella weel kud deea, Tweddell Clevel. Rhymes (1875) 84, ed. 1892. w.Yks.3 (62) Dev. A down-square man in your own position of life, Mortimer Tales Moors (1895) 21; I'm down-square, anyways. I don't deceive you with a lot of pious talk, MORTIMER Tales Moors 23. (63) nw.Dev. (R.P.C.) (64) Fif. To break the downsway of his fall, Tennant Anster (1812) 75, ed. 1871. (65) Sc. (Jam.) (66) Yks. ‘He's a nap [a cheat] heaped up an' down-throssen.’ The simile is taken from goods heaped up and pressed down in a measure so as to make it hold as much as possible (T.K.). (67, a) Nhb.1 Nhb., Dur. Nicholson Coal Tr. Gl. (1888). (b) Per. Tak' tent ye dinna gi'e the deil Occasion to dounthrow ye, Haliburton Horace (1886) I. (68) Nhb.1, n.Yks.2 w.Yks. He's a roague up met an' daan thrussen, Prov. in Brighouse News (Sept. 14, 1889); w.Yks.5 Shoo said he wur a rascal uphēaped and downthrussen, 4. (69, a) n.Yks.2 ‘Give it a doonthrust,’ push it well down. (b) Lan. Pile't up an' deawn-thruch't, Waugh Tattlin' Matty 22. (70) Cum. He's a varra decent doon thump keynd ov a chap, Mary Drayson (1872) 8; Cum.1 (71) Dor. (C.W.) (72) Frf. He aye taen care to gie him doon weicht when he bocht guids, Willock Rosetty Ends (1886) 141, ed. 1889. Wgt. The weight by which they sell... is by the stone of Wigton;... of this they will give you down weight, Fraser Wigtown (1877) 89. (73) w.Yks. (E.W.) 2. with Comb. advb. and prep. meanings: (1) Down-along, (a) downwards, down the street or road, some little distance off; (b) in the West country; (2) Down-along-folk, the inhabitants of Dorset and the West country as opposed to ‘up-along-folk’ in Surrey, Sussex, &c.; (3) Down-bank, (4) Down-brae, (5) Down-broo, downwards, downhill; also used fig.; (6) Down-by(e, (a) along, near by; (b) down below, down beside; (c) yonder, down the way, street, &c.; (7) Down-cast, in a downward direction; (8) Down-dap, quickly; also used as v.; (9) Down-gate, down the river; (10) Down-hill, (a) of the wind: in a south or south-westerly direction; (b) of a line: on the downward slope; (11) Down-house, downstairs; (12) Down-over, see below; (13) Down-right, immediately, straight off; (14) Down-souse, plainly, frankly; (15) Down-straight, straightforward; (16) Down-street, (a) on the lower level; (b) the opposite direction in the main road through a village from ‘up-street’; (17) Down-through, in the low or flat country; (18) Down to, down at or in; (19) Down-ward(s, (a) see Down-hill (a); (b) down the hill; (20) Down-ways, downwards; (21) Down-with, see Down-ways; also used as sb. and adj. (1, a) Glo.1, I.W.1 Wil. Slow Gl. (1892). Wil.1 ‘He lives down-along,’ a little way down the street (S.), as opposed to ‘up-along.’ Som. Look at the train going down along there (W.F.R.). w.Som.1 I zeed'n gwain down 'long (s.v. Along). Dev. A't thee gwāyne down-along or up-along? Pulman Sketches (1842) 91, ed. 1871; Reports Provinc. (1877) 130. (b) Wil., Som. Their faces lighted up at the old password of ‘Down along,’ for whosoever knows Down along and the speech thereof is at once a man and a brother, Kingsley At Last, i. (2) Hmp. (J.R.W.); Hmp.1 (3) Cum. It's olas gaan doon-bank, Sargisson Joe Scoap (1881) 62. Wm. [T'nag] wes liggan fidgean an spraalan wi her heead doon bank, Spec. Dial. (1885) pt. iii. 5. n.Yks.3 w.Yks. When t'chimla wants sweëpin' ah'll goo on t'top o' t'next 'ouse, an' sweëp it downbank, i'steäd o' upbank. T'tit's at 'er prime noo, she'll go downbank next time she's sowld (F.P.T.). (4) Rnf. A new day Micht turn yer coorse doon-brae, Neilson Poems (1877) 24. (5) Lan. Owd Roddle was now only the shrunken relic of a very strong man. He had long since begun to grow ‘deawn-broo, like a keaw-tail,’ Waugh Besom Ben (1865) vi; Lan.1 (6, a) Nhb.1 ‘Will ye be doon-by thi neet?’ ‘Aa's gaan doon-by.’ (b) Sc. They use almaist a' of them the well down by, Scott St. Ronan (1824) ii. Cai.1 Frf. When the news o' the ship on fire cam', dizzens rushed awa doon-by to the beach, Willock Rosetty Ends (1886) 165, ed. 1889. Per. He preached among the whins down by the shore, Cleland Inchbracken (1883) 10, ed. 1887; It's bushels doon-bye, but it's wecht up-bye, Ian Maclaren K. Carnegie (1896) 306. Fif. I'll awa' doon bye an' come back about eight o'clock, Robertson Provost (1894) 30. Lnk. Ye'll sune be doon-bye wi' the Fien', Coghill Poems (1890) 149; Auld Nick had taen him doon by, doon by, Orr Laigh Flichts (1882) 54. Dmf. The laich seep-sabbin' o' the burn doon-by, Reid Poems (1894) 29. (c) Cai.1 ne.Sc. Gang doon by to Netherton, Grant Keckleton, III. Fif. No word of a new house-keeper down bye, Wull? Meldrum Margrédel (1894) 122. Dmb. There's twa comin' doun by, at any rate, Cross Disruption (1844) i. Rnf. May none down bye appear mair braw, Or yet contenter, McGilvray Poems (ed. 1862) 191. e.Lth. What hae they been sayin to ye doun-by? Hunter J. Inwick (1895) 204. (7) Nhb.1 Nhb., Dur. Nicholson Coal Tr. Gl. (1888). (8) Dev. Grose (1790) MS. add.; (Hall.) (9) Not. Used of vessels passing down the river Trent (J.H.B.). (10, a) s.Wor. (H.K.); s.Wor.1 According to the water-men, a down-hill wind is like a down-stream wind, from the north: but it is often used otherwise, as, ‘The wind is a-gone down 'ill,’ i.e. has gone round to the south. Hrf.2, Glo.1 (b) s.Wor.1 That rail don't sim just level; 'e falls down-'ill a bit. Hrf.2 (11) w.Som.1 Wee waud-n u-goo·tu bai·d, wee wuz daewn-aew·z haun ut aa·pt [We were not gone to bed, we were downstairs when it happened]. Dev. We bin fo'ced to zlape down-'ouze 'is vortnight, Reports Provinc. (1886) 95; ‘How's yer wive, Lewis?’ ‘'Er's better, thankee. 'Er comed down ouze yesterday,’ Hewett Peas. Sp. (1892) 149. (12) n.Yks. When coals are wet or damp it makes them burn down-over (I.W.). (13) Cor.3 He did the job downright. (14) Cor. He's a rail gen'lmon ─ down-souse! don't you be afeard 'bout that, Forfar Pentowan (1859) i; Cor.1 I up and told un down-souse; Cor.2 (15) w.Som.1 Lat-s ae·-ut aupruy·t-n daewn straa·yt [Let us have it upright and down-straight ─ i.e. quite straightforward]. (16, a) Dur. The annual football match between the ‘up-street’ and ‘down-street’ inhabitants of Chester-le-street took place on Shrove Tuesday. The ‘up-street’ people, it need scarcely be said, live on the level, the ‘down-streeters’ occupying the banks of the burn, Flk-Lore Jrn. (1884) II. 124. (b) Brks.1 (17) Cld. ‘I'm gaun dounthrough,’ I am going to the lower part of the country. ‘He bides dounthrough,’ he resides in the lower part (Jam.). (18) Glo. I 'a heard as you wur down to these parts, Buckman Darke's Sojourn (1890) xii. Cor. James Wyatt down to Wadebridge, he was there, Hunt Pop. Rom. w.Engl. (1865) 140, ed. 1896; There's somethen' amiss down-to bâl, I s'pose, Forfar Pentowan (1859) i. (19, a) ne.Yks.1 As applied to the wind, signifies westerly. ‘T'wind's gotten doonwards.’ Ken.1 The wind is said to be downward when it is in the south; Ken.2 (b) Ken. De hosses an ounds are gone dounerds [down the wood or hill] (W.G.P.). (20) n.Yks.2 (21) Sc. ‘To the downwith,’ downwards (Jam.); As mickle upwith as mickle downwith, Ramsay Prov. (1737); ‘A downwith road,’ opposed to an acclivity (Jam.). Abd. Downwith they darena budge, Their safest course seems in the height to lodge, Ross Helenore (1768) 80, ed. 1812. 3. phr. (1) down the bonk, (a) towards the grave, declining in years; (b) becoming poorer; (2) down the brae, see down the bonk (a); (3) down the country, Dorset and Somerset; (4) down the gate, yonder, down the way; (5) down in drink, far gone in drinking, drunk; (6) down in the mud, see below; (7) down in the wind, bankrupt; (8) down a bit, a call from the shaft in a mine, meaning that the cage is to be lowered gently; (9) down o' the price, in reduction or abatement; (10) down on to the bottom, a call meaning that the cage is to be run down to the shaft bottom; (11) to be down o', to be distrustful or suspicious of; (12) down of an eye, to have one eye nearly blind; (13) down on't, to be much depressed, out of spirits; (14) to put down, to kill, esp. to mercifully put an end to a suffering or worn-out animal; (15) to take down, (a) to take to pieces; (b) to reduce the strength of whisky, &c., by the addition of water; (16) down corn, down horn, prov. a fall in the price of corn means a corresponding fall in the price of meat or ‘horn.’ (1) Chs.1 (2) Dmb. Eild is driving me down the brae.... Nettles soon will grow upon my grave, Taylor Poems (1827) 49. Ayr. To tell us baith the truth, John, We're creepin' doon the brae, White Jottings (1879) 167. Lnk. Doon the brae we a' maun gang When auld and dune like you, Wardrop J. Mathison (1881) 78. (3) Wil. About Deverill this term always means Dorset and Somerset (G.E.D.). (4) Ayr. And down the gate in faith they're worse And mair unchancy, Burns To Mr. J. Kennedy, st. I. Lnk. Caps o' yill for richt advice Were swappet doun-'e-gaet, Watson Poems (1853) 84. (5) Dmb. He's no just sae far up in years as he's doun in drink.... He drinks like a fish, and often canna preach for the hiccup, Cross Disruption (1844) xxxvii. (6) Ken. Towns and villages in the Weald of Kent are familiarly spoken of as places ‘down-in-the-mud,’ by the inhabitants of other parts of the county, N. & Q. (1850) 1st S. i. 237. (7) Der.2, nw.Der.1 (8) Nhb., Dur. Nicholson Coal Tr. Gl. (1888). (9) Sc. ‘Gie me a saxpence doun o' the price.’ Also used as a sb. ‘How muckle doun will ye gie?’ (Jam. Suppl.) (10) Nhb., Dur. Nicholson Coal Tr. Gl. (1888). (11) w.Yks. Ah'm dahn o' yon theear chap (J.J.B.). (12) n.Cy. (Hall.) (13) n.Yks.2 ‘Desperate doon on't,’ very much depressed. (14) Cum. Poor aud Watch! he'd gitten blinnd and deef an' we were forced to put him doon last back end (J.Ar.). (15, a) Lnk. He's never contentit Wi' ocht that he gets till he tak's it a' doun; He maun see in the heart o't, Nicholson Idylls (1870) 24. (b) Wgt. A fresh supply of the Bladnoch [whisky] had been lately added to his establishment, requiring of course to be taken down to the proper strength, Fraser Wigtown (1877) 311. (16) e.Suf. N. & Q. (1885) 6th S. xii. 466. 4. In place, laid down; fastened down, fixed. Abd. Had got the neeps doon, Alexander Johnny Gibb (1871) i. Kcd. The forebriest o' the laft Faur noo the seats were doon, Grant Lays (1884) 63. Som. Everything was quiet ─ and the bells were down, Raymond Tryphena (1895) 36. 5. Fig. Ill, sick, laid up, confined to bed. Gen. in phr. down with. Per. I up an' telled her hoo our Davie was down wi' the jandies, Cleland Inchbracken (1883) 210, ed. 1887. w.Yks. A's fair daan wi' luv, Littledale Crav. Sng. Sol. (1859) v. 8; w.Yks.1 My husband's quite down. n.Lin.1 He's doon ageän wi' th' feäver. I remember it was when my missis was doon wi' Martha. sw.Lin.1 ‘What, is he down again?’ ‘There are several down on it’ [the small pox]. Sur.1 We've got all the children down with the measles. Sus.1 He's down with a bad attackt of brown crisis on the chest. w.Som.1 Uur·z tuur·ubl múd·leen, uur-z daew·n ugee·un wai dhu buurn-tuy·tees [She is terrible middling, she is laid up again with bronchitis]. Dev. He's been ailing but is now down, w. Times (Apr. 22, 1886) 2, col. 2. 6. Lame; having one leg shorter than the other. w.Yks. Mally wor dahn o' one fooit 'at rayther spoilt her walking, Cudworth Dial. Sketches (1884) 13. 7. In reduction or abatement of price. Sc. How muckle doun will ye gie? (Jam. Suppl.) Cai.1 He asked twa shillins, but made it sixpence doon. 8. Of the wind: in the south, south-west, or west. Glo.1 See also Down-hill (a). 9. On the road towards, in the direction of. e.Yks.1 ‘Let's gan doon Pathrington.’ The same expression is used even if the road is up hill. 10. Used as an intensitive. w.Yks. Ah'm dahn weel seure they'll nivver leearn't, Yks. Wkly. Post (Mar. 14, 1896). Lin. I am down shamed o' mysen, Fenn Cure of Souls (1889) 19; He's a down bad 'un, FENN Cure of Souls 36. n.Lin.1 Often preceded by ‘real.’ You're a reäl doon good hand wi' yer tung. She's gettin' aaged, but she's not a doon ohd woman yit. 11. Used verbally with ellipsis of v. Per. [She] down wi' her head, an up wi' her neepkin, Cleland Inchbracken (1883) 63, ed. 1887; I'se doon t'ey minister, CLELAND Inchbracken 59; He downs on his knees and gies thanks to the God o' Heaven, Sandy Scott (1897) 33. Lth. The miller aft wad down the sluice, Lumsden Sheep-head (1892) 105. Edb. I'll down three guineas, Learmont Poems (1791) 333. Dmf. Sud ony stan' ahint his han', Boyle doons like a paver, Wi's mell this day, Quinn Heather (1863) 189. w.Yks. 'At can dahn as mich lush as a tailor, Saunterer's Satchel (1878) 20. Lan. My fayther jumpt up, un deawn with him [himself] into th' cellar, Staton Loominary (c. 1861) 113. 12. v. To throw or knock down; to fell with a blow. Bnff.1 He doont the tinker at the first lick. Rxb. (Jam.) Slk. She has downed me, the auld roudas, Hogg Tales (1838) 194, ed. 1866. Nhb. We down'd byeth him and Davy-o, N. Minstrel (1806-1807) pt. iv. 80; Nhb.1 Cum. Ah could deuh neah less ner doon her, Sargisson Joe Scoap (1881) 60; I collar'd him, an' then I doon't him (E.W.P.); Cum.1 Aa doon't him at t'furst bat. n.Yks.1 ne.Yks.1 He doon'd him wiv his neeaf. w.Yks.4 s.Chs.1 Always of living things. Iv ée)d ŭ gy'en mi aan·i ŭn iz ky'im·-ky'aam·, ahy)d ŭ daaynd im [If he'd ha' gen me anny on his cim-cam, I'd ha' daïned him]. s.Not. Ah knocked 'im ower, an' when 'e gor up, ah downed 'im again (J.P.K.). War.3 He soon dounded him. w.Cor. I've downed Mathew Bent, Joan! Phillpotts Prophets (1897) 31. [Aus. Old man Jack wouldn't stand nice about downing her with the waddy, Boldrewood Squatter (1890) vi.] 13. Fig. To dishearten, discourage; to tire out, exhaust. w.Yks. If you talk like that you'll down him (S.K.C.). Wil.1 That there 'oss 's downed. Hence Downed, ppl. adj. low-spirited, depressed. n.Yks. Ah ma' weel seeam te be doon'd! Tweddell Clevel. Rhymes (1875) 85, ed. 1892.

DOWN, v.2 Yks. Lan. Written daan e.Lan.1; deawn Lan.1 e.Lan.1 [dān, Lan. also dēn.] 1. Weaving term: to finish a web or ‘cut’ of cloth, &c. Gen. used in prp. and pp. Lan. Aw'd deawn't my piece, Waugh Birthplace Tim Bobbin (1858) iii; When downing on a Friday, Harland Lyrics (1866) 82; When my dad's deawn he'll pay yo', Brierley Irkdale (1868) 258; Lan.1 When the entire piece or web is woven, and taken off the loom, the weaver says he has ‘deawnt his cut’; that is, he has taken his finished web down from the loom. So fig. a man who dies has finished the web of his life. s.Lan. A common expression among silk-weavers was ‘When art deawnin?’ which meant ‘When art thou finishing thy warp?’ (S.W.) Hence (1) Downing, vbl. sb. (a) the act of finishing a piece of weaving; (b) weaver's work when ‘downed’ or taken from the loom; (2) Downing-day, sb. the day when a ‘cut’ is completed. (1, a) Lan. Wi'd nowt i' th' heawse, an au're a day off deawnin, Brierley Daisy Nook (1859) 31; He calculated the time of their downings, &c., BRIERLEY Layrock (1864) i. (b) e.Lan.1 (2) Lan. It's very nee th' deawnin' day, an aw should be oppo' th' push like, Brierley Day Out (1859) 21. 2. Silk-weaving term; see below. w.Yks. A piece is downd, or felled, when several shoits are thrown across it of different colours of weft, say two rows for the head-end and one for the tail-end (S.A.B.). [A vbl. tech. use of down, adv.]

DOWN, sb.1 Wil. Cor. [deun.] In Comp. (1) Down-lanterns, heaps of chalk, marking the tracks from one village to another over the downs. Wil.1; (2) Down-park, an enclosed park or common. Cor.2

DOWN, sb.2 Nhp. Lace-making term: a length of the lace pillow. Nhp. Children learning lace-making whose daily task is one or more ‘downs’ will evade a portion of the task by unrolling down the pillow a portion of the lace completed at a previous lesson, and will then say they have ‘chet’ or ‘chit’ a ‘down’ (E.S.).

DOWN, adv., adj., prep. and v. Var. dial. uses in Sc. Irel. and Eng. 1. adv., adj. and prep. In comb. (1) Down-after, following downwards; (2) Down-brow, a frown; (3) Down by, down the valley; (4) Down-creature, an animal; (5) Down-drawing, see below; (6) Down-gater, a contemptuous term for an inhabitant of Morecambe; (7) Down-house, a kitchen; a back kitchen; (8) Down-lay, a heavy fall of snow; (9) Down-mouthed, low-spirited; (10) Down-spout, a perpendicular pipe to convey water from a roof to a cistern; (11) Down-straight, downright; (12) Down street, the lower part of a town; (13) Down town, down the village; (14) Down-worth, a declivity. (1) Sh.I. In a peerie start I maks hit oot ta be a man comin' slowly doonefter, Clark Northern Gleams (1898) 103. (2) Dmf. Despite the down brows of his Leddy, Paton Castlebraes (1898) 60. (3) Cum.4 (4) s.Lan.1 (5) Sh.I. During the season the crew of a haf boat had three feasts, viz., the Doon-drawin' at Beltane; the Johnsmas at Midsummer,.. and the Foy at Lammas, Spence Flk-Lore (1899) 188. (6) Lan. Daily Dispatch (June 17, 1902) 7. (7) n.Cy. (J. Losh 1783). Wm.&Cum.1 (8) Sh.I. Da white mist.. wisna ta geng 'ithoot a doonlay o' snaw, Sh. News (Mar. 24, 1900). (9) Lakel.2 (10) s.Lan.1 (11) Cum.4 (12) w.Yks. Banks Wkfld. Wds. (1865) (s.v. Up-street). (13) Oxf.1 (14) Gall. Mactaggart Encycl. (1824). 2. Phr. (1) down about house, thrown to the ground; (2) down at mouth, dejected, dispirited; (3) down in the valley, (4) down in yonder meadow, a form of kiss-in-the-ring; (5) down the bank, failing in strength, &c.; (6) down the country, Devon and Cornwall; (7) down the house, near the door; (8) down upon it, see (2). (1) I.W. Gray Ribstone Pippins (1898) 34. (2) Cum.4 (3) Nhp. War. Nhp. N. & Q. II. 105, in Gomme Games (1894) I. 99, 100; Sus. N. & Q. (1892) 8th S. i. 210, in Gomme Games 100. I.W. Gomme Games 99. (4) Abd., Per. Gomme Games (1898) II. 417. Kcb. GOMME Games 416-417. Dub. GOMME Games 417-418. (5) n.Yks. (I.W.) (6) w.Som.1 (s.v. Up-country). (7) s.Don. ‘Up the house’ means farther into the house through successive apartments from the door.‘ Down the house’ is the opposite direction, Simmons Gl. (1890) (s.v. Up the house). (8) Sh.I. He saw that Aandrew was doon ipun it aboot something, Burgess Sketches (2nd ed.) 21. 3. v. To fail; to draw towards evening or autumn. n.Yks. T' breckins put up i May and downs doon i't back pairt o July. It downs towards neet (I.W.).