adown

American  

[uh-doun] / əˈdaʊn /

adverb

Archaic.

1. down.

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Etymology

Origin of adown

First recorded before 1000; Middle English adoun, Old English of dūne “off the hill.” See a- ², down ¹

Example Sentences

And the tender, truthful Sisters shook their heads and turned away, For adown his classic features passed the shadow of his pain, As he closed his eyes and murmured: "She will never come again."

From Recitations for the Social Circle by Harvey, James Clarence

For see, from where yonder hill starts abruptly from the glen, rise immense clouds of silvery white, and roll slowly adown the valley.

From Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" by Stables, Gordon

O Voice!—what is thy necromantic word That all Granada waits adown the years?

From The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets by Various

Echoes hitherto unknown to Fidunia in the solemn forest, were roused by his shrilly bark of joy, as capering round his young mistress, they wandered together far adown those sylvan glades.

From Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Morgan, Louisa

Its dynamic vehemence had cleft a fearful way through the crags on either side of it, and adown its course one could see black hulks of rock that projected out from the swirling flood.

From Girl Scouts in the Rockies by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth