Crossword-Solution: DOWNWARDLY 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 21

When the main plane dips downwardly on the port side, a reverse action takes place, with the like result of restoring the main plane to an even keel.

Near the root of this trunk was an immense quantity of black shaggy hair—more than could have been supplied by the coats of a score of buffaloes; and projecting from this hair downwardly and laterally, sprang two gleaming tusks not unlike those of the wild boar, but of infinitely greater dimensions.

After these and other principal personages came a confusion of faces--all recognisable, yet needing study to discern;--creatures drifting downwardly into the darkness,--one was the vivisectionist whose name was celebrated through France, clutching at his bleeding victim and borne relentlessly onwards by the whirlwind,--and forms and faces belong to men of every description of Church-doctrine were seen trampling underneath them other human creatures scarcely discernible.

They continued thus to act for 23 days after their first expansion, by which time two leaves had been formed; even after 29 days they still rose moderately above their horizontal or downwardly deflected diurnal position.

The petioles become at night downwardly curved, either through their entire length or in the upper part alone; and this apparently causes the depression of the blade.