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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Downcast \Down"cast`\, n. 1. Downcast or melancholy look That downcast of thine eye. --Beau. & Fl 2. (mining) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Downcast \Down"cast`\, a. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: downcast adj 1: directed downward; "a downcast glance" 2: low in spirits; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted" [syn: {blue}, {depressed}, {dispirited}, {down(p)}, {downhearted}, {low}, {low-spirited}] n : a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine
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