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downstairs(2) (iou)



downstairs adverb & noun. L16.
[from DOWN preposition + STAIR + -S1.]
A. adverb. Down the stairs; to, on, or of the ground floor or lower floors of a house etc. L16.
E. Waugh All I possess..is downstairs in your hall. E. J. Howard To stay downstairs after the others had all gone up to bed.
b. noun. The ground floor or lower floors of a house etc. M19.
New Yorker When the children grew up they would often be given the downstairs to live in.

MANUCAPTIO, practice (law)


MANUCAPTIO, practice. In the English law it is a writ which lies for a man taken on suspicion of felony and the like, who cannot be admitted to bail by taken on suspicion of felony and the like, who cannot be admitted to bail by the sheriff, or others having power to let to mainprise. F. N. B. 249. the sheriff, or others having power to let to mainprise. F. N. B. 249.