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n. - Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool ²
n. - The soft under feathers of birds. They have short stems with soft rachis and bards and long threadlike barbules, without hooklets. ²
n. - The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, as of the thistle. ²
n. - The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear. ²
n. - That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down ²
v. t. - To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down. ²
prep. - A bank or rounded hillock of sand thrown up by the wind along or near the shore; a flattish-topped hill; -- usually in the plural. ²
prep. - A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep; -- usually in the plural. ²
prep. - A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war. ²
prep. - A state of depression; low state; abasement. ²
adv. - In the direction of gravity or toward the center of the earth; toward or in a lower place or position; below; -- the opposite of up. ²
adv. - From a higher to a lower position, literally or figuratively; in a descending direction; from the top of an ascent; from an upright position; to the ground or floor; to or into a lower or an inferior condition; as, into a state of humility, disgrace, misery, and the like; into a state of rest; -- used with verbs indicating motion. ²
adv. - In a low or the lowest position, literally or figuratively; at the bottom of a decent; below the horizon; of the ground; in a condition of humility, dejection, misery, and the like; in a state of quiet. ²
adv. - From a remoter or higher antiquity. ²
adv. - From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence; as, to boil down in cookery, or in making decoctions. ²
adv. - In a descending direction along; from a higher to a lower place upon or within; at a lower place in or on; as, down a hill; down a well. ²
adv. - Hence: Towards the mouth of a river; towards the sea; as, to sail or swim down a stream; to sail down the sound. ²
v. t. - To cause to go down; to make descend; to put down; to overthrow, as in wrestling; hence, to subdue; to bring down. ²
v. i. - To go down; to descend. ²
a. - Downcast; as, a down look. ²
a. - Downright; absolute; positive; as, a down denial. ²
a. - Downward; going down; sloping; as, a down stroke; a down grade; a down train on a railway. ²

The word "down" uses 4 letters: D N O W.

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Words formed by adding one letter before or after down (in bold), or to dnow in any order:
a -   adown   e -   endow   owned   i -   indow   r -   drown   s -   downs   u -   wound   y -   downy  

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do   don   dow   no   nod   now   od   on   ow   own   wo   won  

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