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.
© Webster 1913.
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.
© Webster 1913.