Meaning of Downcast | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of downthrow (“a depression of the strata on one side of a fault; also, the degree of downward displacement in such a fault”).
   obsolete
2. An act of looking downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty; hence (uncountable, archaic), dejection, melancholy.
   countable
3. An act, or the situation, of being cast or thrown to the ground.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
4. A defeat, an overthrow; also, an act of destruction or ruin.
   archaic, countable, figuratively, uncountable
5. A cast (“change of expression of a data type”) from supertype to subtype.
   countable
6. A ventilating shaft down which air passes in circulating through a mine.
   attributive, countable

Equivalents

Examples

“a downcast dyke”

“[C]ome lets be ſad my girles, / That dovvne caſt of thine eye Olimpias, / Shovves a faind ſorrovv; […]”

“I ſavv the reſpectful Dovvncaſt of his Eye, vvhen you catcht him gazing at you during the Muſick: He, I vvarrant, vvas ſurpriz'd, as if he had been taken ſtealing your VVatch. O! the undiſſembled Guilty Look!”

“And at every such aid, there was a smile to pay; not to mention the downcast of eyes sometimes, and sometimes their uplifting with a soft, sweet light, and the fluttering of lashes in the fresh wind from the sea, and the murmuring of lips, more pink and melodious than any clear Pacific shell.”

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