Hypertext Webster Gateway: "downcast"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Downcast \Down"cast`\, n.
1. Downcast or melancholy look.
That downcast of thine eye. --Beau. & Fl.
2. (mining) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in
circulating through a mine.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Downcast \Down"cast`\, a.
Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness,
modesty, dejection, or guilt.
'T is love, said she; and then my downcast eyes, And
guilty dumbness, witnessed my surprise. --Dryden.
- {Down"cast`ly}, adv. -- {Down"cast`ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
downcast
adj 1: directed downward; "a downcast glance"
2: low in spirits; "lonely and blue in a strange city";
"depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and
resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his
defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted" [syn: {blue},
{depressed}, {dispirited}, {down(p)}, {downhearted}, {down
in the mouth}, {low}, {low-spirited}]
n : a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine
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