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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Downy \Down"y\ (-[y^]), adjective
1. Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs. ''A downy feather.'' --Shak.
Plants that . . . have downy or velvet rind upon their leaves. --Bacon.
2. Made of, or resembling, down. Hence, figuratively: Soft; placid; soothing; quiet. ''A downy shower.'' --Keble. ''Downy pillow.'' --Pope.
Time steals on with downy feet. --Young.
3. Cunning; wary. [Slang, Eng.] --Latham.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
downy
adjective
1: like down or as soft as down [syn: {downlike}, {flossy}, {fluffy}]
2: covered with fine soft hairs or down; "downy milkweed seeds" [syn: {pubescent}, {puberulent}, {sericeous}] [also: {downiest}, {downier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
77 Moby Thesaurus words for "downy": airy, artful, astute, attenuate, attenuated, bubbly, crafty, cunning, dainty, deep, delicate, ethereal, even, feathery, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun, flat, fleecy, flossy, fluffy, foamy, frothy, furry, fuzzy, gauzy, glabrate, glabrescent, glabrous, gossamer, gossamery, guileful, hirsute, imponderous, insidious, lanate, leger, leiotrichous, level, light, light as air, lighter than vanity, mousse, nappy, peachy, pinnate, plane, pubescent, refined, regular, satin, satiny, silky, sly, smooth, smooth-shaven, smooth-textured, souffle, suave, thin-spun, tricky, unbroken, unheavy, uniform, unrough, unroughened, unruffled, velutinous, velvety, volatile, weightless, wily, wiredrawn, woolly, yeasty
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