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