Definition of Adown. Meaning of Adown. Synonyms of Adown

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Definition of Adown

Adown
Adown A*down", adv. [OE. adun, adoun, adune. AS. of d[=u]ne off the hill. See Down.] From a higher to a lower situation; downward; down, to or on the ground. [Archaic] ``Thrice did she sink adown.' --Spenser.
Adown
Adown A*down", prep. Down. [Archaic & Poetic] Her hair adown her shoulders loosely lay displayed. --Prior.

Meaning of Adown from wikipedia

- sparkled as two diamonds, and her lips were tinted like a tourmaline. All adown her back floated tresses of ruddy gold, with a slender jeweled circlet confining...
- Netanyahu Netaniah 138a 138 אֲדֹנִיָּהוּ‎ 'Adoniyahu אֲדֹנִיָּה‎ 'Adoniyah 'adown [# 113] Adoniyahu Adonijah 452a 452 אֵלִיָּהוּ‎ 'Eliyahu אֵלִיָּה‎ 'Eliyah...
- Thomas Allom, Letitia Elizabeth Landon writes "It sweeps, as sweeps an army Adown the mountain side, With the voice of many claps of thunder, like the battle’s...
- me,   The forward-flowing tide of time; And many a sheeny summer-morn, Adown the Tigris I was borne, By Bagdat’s shrines of fretted gold, High-walled...
- (1917) Motley and Other Poems (1918) The Veil and Other Poems (1921) Down-Adown-Derry: A Book of Fairy Poems (1922) (illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop)...
- abouts (regional, U.S.) acrost (regional, Australia, England, and U.S.) adown (archaic; poetic; rare) a-eastell (obsolete; regional, Scotland) afore (archaic;...
- of the first entries in Skeat is for the letter A, which begins: "...(1) adown; (2) afoot; (3) along; (4) arise; (5) achieve; (6) avert; (7) amend; (8)...
- Mare, and thereafter illustrated five more of his books for children: Down-Adown-Derry (1922), Crossings (1923), The Dutch Cheese (1931), Mr. Bumps and His...
- from Morocco and Algeria to Tunisia. Her "choice sport" was to "glide adown" the Nile River into Egypt and Aethiopia with "tame water-snakes" and "ghastly...
- 26) 3. Landscape: Lento Ye ice falls! Ye that from the mountain's brow/ Adown enormous ravines slope amain —/ Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty...