downcast /(?)/
down·cast
downcast
a.
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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.
- depressed; dispirited; dejected; -- of people.
Downcast
n.
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Downcast or melancholy look.
That downcast of thine eye.
- A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine. (Mining)