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Definition of Downier
1. downy [adj] - See also: downy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Downier
Literary usage of Downier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1885)
"At Oxford, where the intellectual resisting the master of the Temple and the «•fforts
df Paris hud, under the guidance of the queen downier. ..."
2. The English Rock-garden by Reginald John Farrer (1919)
"... but the genuine D. collina has fatter downier stems than D. sericea, with
longer, larger, hairier leaves, and a special profusion of flowers : it forms ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1801)
"... it: Every piece of cannon was dif- mounted, and placed in troughs hollowed
out of trees cut downier the- ..."
4. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1884)
"... if anything can be shown of why wool is soft, and fur fine, and cotton downy,
and down downier; and how a flax fibre differs from a dandelion stalk, ..."
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