downcast

Down"cast`, a. Defn: 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. Down"cast`, n. 1. Downcast or melancholy look. That downcast of thine eye. Beau. & Fl. 2. (mining) Defn: A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.

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