Down

1. 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. n. Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool
3. n. The soft under feathers of birds. They have short stems with soft rachis and bards and long threadlike barbules, without hooklets.
4. n. The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, as of the thistle.
5. n. The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
6. n. That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down
7. v. t. To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. prep. A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war.
11. 1adv. 1 Hence: Towards the mouth of a river; towards the sea; as, to sail or swim down a stream; to sail down the sound.
12. 1n. 1 Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.