Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- From a higher to a lower part; downward; down; to or on the ground.
- From a higher to a lower situation; down: implying descent.
- From top to bottom of; along the length of; downward; all along.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. Archaic From a higher to a lower situation; downward; down, to or on the ground.
- prep. Archaic & Poetic Down.
Etymologies
- Old English adūn, earlier of dūne ("off the hill") (compare Latin ad vallum > Old French à val, used in the same way). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Let's hope he slows adown and gives his readers more of his best.”
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“The adverb describing a descent from the hill, "off the down", ofdūne, turned into adown and eventually became our adverb down.”
“The wheels go round without a sound -- The maidens hold high revel; In sinful mood, insanely gay, True spinsters spin adown the way From duty to the devil!”
“For now that I have at last released me from my quarrel with your father, I let the tear-drops stream adown my tender cheek.”
““An erne methought came in,” she says, “and swept adown the hall, and drenched me and all of us with blood, and ill shall that betoken, for methought it was the double of King Atli.””
“Dear friend, my tears aye flow these cheeks adown, iii.”
“The tears were running adown his cheeks, out of fear for his life and grief for his separation from Zau al-Makan; and he was saying to himself,”
“And tear-floods course adown the cheeks they only scald;”
“Some few drifted far adown the stream, as did befit their weariness.”
“Birdalone hung her head adown, and blushed, but smiled a little, and swayed her body gently, as a willow-bough is swayed when a light air arises in the morning.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘adown’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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wot, no?
miscellaneous words that weren't here till I added them
iraimbilanja, luma, lwei, emalangeni, laari, sene, maloti, lisente, ekuele, bipkwele, renegue, chaource and 123 more...
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
priorship, exigeant, refectory, reestablish, capper, reesed, quar, reprune, orificial, reaming-iron, terminist, terminism and 3097 more...
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On a Field, Sable, The Letter A, Gules
Words gleaned from my reading of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter."
prolix, adown, besom, natal, eulogium, coadjutor, cumbrous, slumberous, inditing, anatto, impost, lucubrations and 50 more...
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