downcast

Of the eyes, a facial expression, etc.: looking downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty.

Briefly then heere Dido, with downe caſt phiſnomie, parled.

[A]s before Empire and Arts made vvay, / (For no leſſe Harbingers vvould ſerve then they) / So they might ſtill, and point us out the place / VVhere firſt the Church ſhould raiſe her dovvn-caſt face.

Of a person or thing: cast or thrown to the ground.

VVhere liues all vvoe? conduct him to vs three, / The dovvne-caſt ruines of calamitie.

[…] Dovvncaſt Lucifer revolves his State, / VVith his fall'n Angels ſits in Dark Debate, / And from This Conſtellation bodes his Fate.

Of a thing: directed downwards.

Of a person: feeling despondent or discouraged.

His fine and lovely eyes were now lighted up with indignation, now subdued to downcast sorrow and quenched in infinite wretchedness.

Of a person or thing: defeated, overthrown; also, destroyed, ruined.

Synonym of downthrow (“a depression of the strata on one side of a fault; also, the degree of downward displacement in such a fault”).

a downcast dyke

An act of looking downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty; hence (uncountable, archaic), dejection, melancholy.

[C]ome lets be ſad my girles, / That dovvne caſt of thine eye Olimpias, / Shovves a faind ſorrovv; […]

I ſavv the reſpectful Dovvncaſt of his Eye, vvhen you catcht him gazing at you during the Muſick: He, I vvarrant, vvas ſurpriz'd, as if he had been taken ſtealing your VVatch. O! the undiſſembled Guilty Look!

An act, or the situation, of being cast or thrown to the ground.

A defeat, an overthrow; also, an act of destruction or ruin.

A cast (“change of expression of a data type”) from supertype to subtype.

A ventilating shaft down which air passes in circulating through a mine.