(doun) adverb
1. From a higher to a lower place, level, position, etc.: Come down from that ladder!
2. In or into a lower place, position, etc.: The cattle put their heads down.
3. On or to the ground: The house burned down.
4. To or toward the south: Come down to Florida this winter.
5. To or in an outlying or distant place: life down on the farm.
6. Below the horizon: The sun went down.
7. From an upright to a prone or prostrate position: to knock a man down.
8. From a former or earlier time or owner: This necklace came down to me from my ancestors.
9. To or toward the end; away from the start: Read from the beginning down to chapter five.
10. To a smaller bulk, greater density, heavier consistency, etc.: The mixture boiled down to a hard crust.
11. To or into a less active or violent state: The tumult died down.
12. To a diminished pitch or volume: Turn the radio down!
13. To a lower rate, price, demand or amount: The market has gone down.
14. Into or in an attitude or state of close application, intensity, earnestness, etc.: to get down to work; to track down a clue.
15. In a depressed mental or emotional state: His troubles had him down.
16. In or into ill health: He came down with a fever.
17. In or into a degraded, inferior, or helpless state; in subjection: His competitors kept him down.
18. Completely; entirely: used as an intensive: loaded down with honors.
19. In cash, as at the time of purchase: half the price down and the rest in instalments.
20. On or as on paper or other material for writing: Take down his words.
21. Naut. To or toward the lee side of a vessel: to put the helm down.
—down with (Let us) do away with or overthrow: an exclamation of disfavor or disapproval.
—adjective
1. Going, facing, or directed toward a lower position or place: the down side of the subway station.
2. In a lower place; on the ground: The wires are down because of the storm.
3. Gone, brought, or paid down: a down payment.
4. Downcast; dejected.
5. Bedridden: He is down with a cold.
6. In games, behind an opponent's score by (a number of) points, goals, strokes, etc.: opposed to up.
7. In football, not in play.
—down and out
1. In boxing, knocked out.
2. Disabled, destitute, or socially outcast. Also down′-and-out′.
—down on Opposed to as from anger, ill will, or enmity.
—v.t.
1. To knock, throw, or put down; subdue.
2. To swallow; gulp down.
—v.i.
3. Rare To go, fall, or sink down. See synonyms under CONQUER.
—prep.
1. In a descending direction along, upon, or in: The logs floated down the river.
2. From an earlier to a later period in the duration of: The story has remained the same down the ages.
—noun
1. A downward movement; a descent.
2. A reverse of fortune: the ups and downs of life.
3. In football, any of the four consecutive plays during which a team must advance the ball at least ten yards in order to maintain possession of it. [OE dūne, aphetic var. of adūne <of dune from the hill]

(doun) noun
1. The fine, soft plumage of birds under the feathers, especially that on the breast of water birds.
2. The first feathering of a bird.
3. The soft hairs that first appear on the human face.
4. Bot. Soft, short hairs; pubescence, as on plants or fruits.
5. Any feathery, fluffy substance. [<ON dunn]

(doun) noun
1. A hill having a broad, treeless, grass-grown top; also, the open space on its top.
2. plural Turf-covered, undulating tracts of upland.
3. A dune. [OE dūn. Akin to DUNE.]

(doun)
A county of eastern Ulster province, Ireland; 952 square miles; county seat, Downpatrick.