noun a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine.verb transitive, computing To cast from supertype to subtype.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.verb transitive, Scotland To taunt to reproach to upbraid.verb transitive, obsolete To cast or throw up to turn upward.noun mining A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.noun computing A cast from supertype to subtype. adjective of a person Feeling despondent.noun (Mining) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.adjective depressed dispirited dejected - of people.adjective Cast downward directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt.noun In mining, the ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.noun A downward look: generally implying sadness or pensiveness.Hence Depressed dejected: as, a down-cast spirit.Cast or directed downward: as, a downcast eye or look.noun In ship-building, a duct or trunk with a cowl or hood at its upper end, arranged to drive air down into the interior of a vessel."Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School" by Jessie Graham Flowerīut you are downcast, and I thought that you might have the longing for home on you.Īll make way in silence, and accompany her passage with downcast looks, without speaking.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition. The other girls were too downcast and wretched to notice the transformation. He plodded on to his work, the young springiness gone from his back and limbs, his face sternly downcast. "The Poor Gentleman" by Hendrik Conscienceīut she was up again and turning from him with eyes downcast before he could comfort her. Whatever may happen to me, I will never be downcast. Her downcast eyes had seen the stride he had made closer to her, and she wanted to run.īut Eadgyth's eyes were downcast, though she was pleased. "The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance" by Hall Caine The hymn melted the hearts of many that stood around, and tears now stood in the singer's downcast eyes. THE cartoonist, were we drawing him, would be full body and partly turned away, the shoulders protectively hunched, the eyes downcast, and, as the cartoonist is Ben Katchor, rendered with a gray wash. Mary's face and downcast eyes are in keeping with standard depictions of her. Īrnold Schwarzenegger's public confessional is on full display this week, replete with lingering pauses, downcast eyes and apologies for the grand betrayal of his wife and children. Īll night, my eyes were downcast, tethered to books and papers and the computer screen. "Everything looks bad to me," Nathan confessed, downcast. Mitt Romney bulled his way through the first debate, verbally trampling his opponent and the moderator, while Barack Obama offered the nation the sulky, downcast persona of President Sourpuss. Ī downcast Gov Jerry Brown Jr walked past hostile state workers at a rally outside the Capitol in Sacramento, California, Thursday, Jwhere he spoke to the gathering. No name newcomer Jenn Proske has K Stew down pat - from her fluttering downcast eyes to her crooked little lip-biting trick, even the mannered way Miss. It is December 1954 at the Lompoc Theater on H Street, and a pretty young woman in a cardigan sweater and prim scalloped collar sits in the ticket booth, her eyes demurely downcast. HIGH SCHOOL was a lost cause for Priscilla Rivera, a child of the downcast mill city of Holyoke, Mass. nrn.comĭid it surface first in Cain, offering unfavored, downcast brother-killer in the wide-mouthed field. Ī downcast Cristiano Ronaldo faces up to Real Madrid's defeat by city rivals Getafe in La Liga. In the crush of rush hour on public transit, scores of downcast eyes, distant stares and pinging devices signal a collective retreat into our own worlds.
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