Meaning of downright | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A low grade of wool from the lower parts of the sides of a fleece.
   in-plural, obsolete
2. A vertical line; a perpendicular, a vertical.
   obsolete, rare

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Examples

“It is ſaid, there are nine Sorts of VVool contained in one good Fleece, vvhich to make⟳ out, they ſay, that there are five Sorts for making Cloth, and four for Combings; a ſuperfine VVool, a head VVool, Dovvnrights, Seconds, and Livery.”

“[T]he middle of it [i.e., the thigh, is] the prop or thiller, the body the vveight, and the leg the povver; either of vvhich being brought by a ſharp angle to a dovvnright or perpendicular or more, vvith the thiller, vvill by ſo much leſſen the vveight, from the yielded aſſumption in that mechanick povver, That the point⟳, vvhich is toucht by a perpendicular from the centre of heavineſs, is one of the terms: […]”

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