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n. (Fort.) A work consisting of two or more bastioned fronts, with their outworks, covering an enceinte, a bridgehead, etc., and connected by wings with the main work or the river bank. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous. [ 1913 Webster ]

With downward force
That drove the sand along he took his way. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Descending from a head, origin, or source; as, a downward line of descent. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected; as, downward thoughts. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. [ AS. ad&unr_;nweard. See Down, adv., and -ward. ] 1. From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards. “Looking downwards.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their heads they downward bent. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery, humility, disgrace, or ruin. [ 1913 Webster ]

And downward fell into a groveling swine. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another in a descending line. [ 1913 Webster ]

A ring the county wears,
That downward hath descended in his house,
From son to son, some four or five descents. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To weigh or press down. [ 1913 Webster ]

A different sin downweighs them to the bottom. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. on the side or in the direction away from the direction from which the wind is blowing; in the direction toward which the wind is blowing; as, good hunters stay downwind of their prey. Opposite of upwind, and windward.
Syn. -- lee(prenominal), leeward. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. ornamental needlework done by drawing threads to form lacelike patterns. [ WordNet 1.5 ]