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.
Down"cast` (doun"k&adot;st`), 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.
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