A city in Iowa

plural of Dow

Dow Jones & Company, an American publishing and financial information firm. / (stock market, by extension) A stock market index code for the US stock market on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq.

The electrolytic method of bromine extraction from brine.

An item that is passed along for someone else to use. / (especially) A piece of clothing or other item which has been outgrown by an older sibling and passed down to a younger one.

Used or second-hand, passed along by its prior user.

(rare) To pass along to someone else.

(neurology, chiefly US) A genetic disorder caused by the presence of all or part of a third copy of chromosome 21 (a chromosomal excess), whereby the patients bear a certain resemblance to the Mongoloid race, such as a small head and tilted eyelids, and typically have a delay in cognitive ability and physical growth.

(comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards. / As a down payment. / On paper (or in a durable record). / To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).

From the higher end to the lower of. / From north to south of. / From one end to another of (in any direction); along.