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Definition of Downlike
1. Adjective. Like down or as soft as down.
Similar to: Soft
Derivative terms: Down, Downiness, Floss, Fluff, Fluffiness
Definition of Downlike
1. Adjective. Resembling down (soft immature feathers) or some aspect of it. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Downlike
1. resembling down [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Downlike
Literary usage of Downlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1905)
"... then emerges on a strip of downlike land at the summit of the pass ; he then
descends southward, having at his left the waters which reach the Ebro from ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1879)
"Our shortest way would be across the downlike fields, and to scramble down the
cliffs. If we follow this course we shall find evidences that would convict a ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1864)
"Immediately behind the house, which is situated on the highest swell of the open,
downlike hill) there ie rather more wood, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1894)
"The valley on the opposite slope is all open and bright; it is skirted on either
side by short downlike pasture; beyond is the view of the sea to the ..."
5. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1897)
"A fairly thick growth of fine white pubescence on face and cheeks, more downlike
on thorax, hardly apparent on abdomen ; eyes close, about the distance ..."
6. Glimpses of Fifty Years: The Autobiography of an American Woman by Frances Elizabeth Willard (1889)
"... fitful fever has been quenched ; and looking far above its dim old spire into
the quiet heavens, what downlike peace has fallen into tumultuous hearts ! ..."
7. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1850)
"... standing my boots right and left in the ftrst dancing position, and blowing
specks of dust off my coat as he laid it downlike a baby. ..."
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