Downy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Downy \Down"y\ (-[y^]), a.
     1. Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs. "A
        downy feather." --Shak.
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              Plants that . . . have downy or velvet rind upon


              their leaves.                         --Bacon.
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     2. Made of, or resembling, down. Hence, figuratively: Soft;
        placid; soothing; quiet. "A downy shower." --Keble. "Downy
        pillow." --Pope.
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              Time steals on with downy feet.       --Young.
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     3. Cunning; wary. [Slang, Eng.] --Latham.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  downy
       adj 1: like down or as soft as down [syn: {downlike}, {flossy}, {fluffy}]
       2: covered with fine soft hairs or down; "downy milkweed seeds"
          [syn: {pubescent}, {puberulent}, {sericeous}]
       [also: {downiest}, {downier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "downy":
     airy, artful, astute, attenuate, attenuated, bubbly, crafty,
     cunning, dainty, deep, delicate, ethereal, even, feathery, filmy,
     fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun, flat, fleecy, flossy,
     fluffy, foamy, frothy, furry, fuzzy, gauzy, glabrate, glabrescent,
     glabrous, gossamer, gossamery, guileful, hirsute, imponderous,
     insidious, lanate, leger, leiotrichous, level, light, light as air,
     lighter than vanity, mousse, nappy, peachy, pinnate, plane,
     pubescent, refined, regular, satin, satiny, silky, sly, smooth,
     smooth-shaven, smooth-textured, souffle, suave, thin-spun, tricky,
     unbroken, unheavy, uniform, unrough, unroughened, unruffled,
     velutinous, velvety, volatile, weightless, wily, wiredrawn, woolly,
     yeasty