Plain and unfashionable in style or dress. / Lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby.

A plain or shabby person.

(cooking, transitive) To press the crust into the filling during baking, to allow the juices to caramelize on top.

Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage. / (less common) Payment by the groom or his family to the bride's family: bride price.

To bestow a dowry upon.

(nautical) To close or make watertight, referring to hatches and cargo. / (transitive) To secure. / (intransitive) To prepare for adversity.

(idiomatic) To prepare for trouble.

(intransitive, Britain) To become quieter. / (intransitive, Britain) To reduce intensity of an activity. / (transitive, Britain) To make someone or something become quieter.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bear, down. / (nautical) To steer away from the wind; to approach from windward. / (transitive) To push (someone) to the ground; to defeat, overcome.

(intransitive) To stop functioning. (machine, computer, vehicle) / (intransitive) To collapse, physically or in structure. (unexpectedly) / (intransitive) To demolish, to pull down. (intentionally)