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Doun, Down(e, n.² Also: doune, done, dun. [ME. downe (Chaucer), ON. dún.]

1. pl. a. The soft under-feathers of a bird. b. Soft hair, pubescence, or feathery substance. (Also in sing.)a. 1513 Doug. xi. xiii. 174.
The lycht downys [of the dove] vp to the skyis glidis 1541 Treasurer's Accounts VII. 468.
For ane stane of downis to fill the said cuschionis with 1561 Ib. XI. 66.
Ilk cussinat haifand ane stirrope girth stuffit witht downis 1622-6 Bisset II. 261/22.
Ane theif … salhave his heid schorne or schavin, and melted pik … layd on his heid, and fedderis or downis strawed … upoun the samin 1703 Household Bk. Gr. Baillie 173.
For a ston of dounsb. 1513 Doug. xii. Prol. 119.
Seir downys smaill on dent de lyon sprang 1531 Bell. Boece I. p. vii.
With tendir downis rising on his beird 15.. Clariodus iv. 1967.
Stonis radious and light, And they alse quhyte as onie snowis doune a1605 Montg. Ch. & Slae 18.
I sawe the cunnin and the cat, Quhais downes with the dewe was wat

2. Attrib. (in sense 1 a) with bed, cod.(1) 1483 Acts Lords of Council II. p. cxxiii.
A doun bed with a boster, with rufe and hedis of erras 1590 Edinburgh Testaments XXII. 138.
Ane doun bed, ane fedder bed 1640 Ib. LIX. 205.
Ane downe bed, bowster and twa doune coddis 1661 Buccleuch Mun. II. 313.
Ane weinscott bed stead, with a doune bed(2) 1484 Acts Lords of Council *90/1.
Five bosteris … , twa done coddis 1500 Ib. II. 405.
Ane verdoure bed, … foure doune coddis 1503 Treasurer's Accounts II. 215.
For v elne claith of gold to be ane pilȝane to the Quene; … for ane gret doun cod to it 1565 Protocol Book of Gilbert Grote 69.
Twa doun coddis witht beiris 1625 Brechin Testaments IV. 178 b.
Aucht doun codis, aucht codwaris 1627 Ib. 291.
Threittie ane dun coidis 1645 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. III. 44.
Ane fedderbed with … tua down codis