Word Meanings - DOWNSTROKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A stroke made with a downward motion of the pen or pencil.

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• STROKER
  One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
• MOTIONER
  One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
• MOTIONIST
  A mover.
• MOTION PICTURE
  A moving picture.
• MOTIONLESS
  Without motion; being at rest.
• DOWNWARD
  1. Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous. With downward force That drove the sand along he took his way. Dryden. 2. Descending from a head, origin, or source;
• STROKESMAN
  The man who rows the aftermost oar, and whose stroke is to be followed by the rest. Totten.
• MOTION
  An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant. Mozley & W. (more info) 1. The act, process, or state of changing place or position;
• PENCIL
  An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point. (more info) 1. A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors. With subtile pencil depainted was this storie.
• PENCILED
  Marked with parallel or radiating lines. (more info) 1. Painted, drawn, sketched, or marked with a pencil. 2. Radiated; having pencils of rays.
• PENCILLATE; PENCILLATED
  Shaped like a pencil; penicillate.
• STROKE
  Struck.
• PENCILING
  Lines of white or black paint drawn along a mortar joint in a brick wall. Knight. (more info) 1. The work of the pencil or bruch; as, delicate penciling in a picture.
• DOWNWARD; DOWNWARDS
  1. From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards. "Looking downwards." Pope. Their heads they downward bent. Drayton. 2. From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery,
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• NERVIMOTION
  The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
• CRAWL STROKE
  A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.
• BY-STROKE
  An accidental or a slyly given stroke.
• IDEO-MOTION
  An ideo-motor movement.
• SPLIT SHOT; SPLIT STROKE
  In croquet, etc., a shot or stroke in which one drives in different directions one's own and the opponent's ball placed in contact.
• PREMOTION
  Previous motion or excitement to action.
• ELECTRO-MOTION
  The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.
• COUNTERSTROKE
  A stroke or blow in return. Spenser.
• LINK MOTION
  A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will; -- used very
• EMOTIONALIZE
  To give an emotional character to. Brought up in a pious family where religion was not talked about emotionalized, but was accepted as the rule of thought and conduct. Froude.
• EMOTIONALISM
  The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner.