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(senseid) Of the eyes, a facial expression, etc.: looking downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty.
(RQ:Virgil Stanyhurst Aeneid), with downe caſt phiſnomie, parled.
(RQ:Herbert Temple)
(RQ:Ovid Epistles)
(RQ:Prior Solomon)
(RQ:Prior Poetical Works)
(RQ:Fielding Miscellanies)
(RQ:Dickens Christmas Carol)
(RQ:Ruskin Praeterita)
Of a person or thing: cast or thrown to the ground.
(RQ:Marston Antonio's Revenge)
(RQ:Tate Holland) Dovvncaſt (w) revolves his State, / VVith his fall'n Angels ſits in Dark Debate, / And from This Conſtellation bodes his Fate.
Of a thing: directed downwards.
Of a person: feeling despondent or discouraged.
(RQ:Mary Shelley Frankenstein)
Of a person or thing: defeated, overthrown; also, destroyed, ruined.
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An act of looking downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty; hence , dejection, melancholy.
(RQ:Beaumont Fletcher Maides Tragedy)
(RQ:Steele Conscious Lovers)
(RQ:Blackmore Thomas Upmore)
An act, or the situation, of being cast or thrown to the ground.
A defeat, an overthrow; also, an act of destruction or ruin.
A (l) from supertype to subtype.
A ventilating shaft down which air passes in circulating through a mine.
To turn (the eyes) downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty.
To cast or throw (something) downwards; also, to drop or lower (something).
(RQ:Longfellow Voices)
To demolish or down (a building, etc.).
To make (someone) feel despondent or discouraged; to discourage, to sadden.

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To (l) (a type) from supertype to subtype.
To reproach or upbraid (someone); also, to taunt (someone).
To depose or overthrow (a leader, an institution, etc.); also , to bring down (oneself or someone) from an exalted position; to humble.