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▪ I. downset|ˈdaʊnsɛt|
Also (sense 2) -seat, -sit.
†1. Going down or setting (as of the sun). Obs.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. ii. 128 His honour and fortunes were for ever at their downe-set.
2. Sc. An establishment, settlement.
1818S. E. Ferrier Marriage I. 120 By my faith, but you have a bein downset. 1822Galt Entail II. 274 (Jam.) A warm down-seat's o' far mair consequence..than the silly low o' love. 1871W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xxxviii. (1873) 213 He'll get a braw doonsit at Gushetneuk.
3. A setting or putting down, a rebuke.
1824S. E. Ferrier Inher. viii, Nowise disconcerted at the downset she had received.
▪ II. ˈdownset, a. Her.
Of a fess: Broken so that the one half is set lower than the other by its whole width.
1847Gloss. Brit. Her. 141 The best way would be to say downset on the dexter or sinister side. |