adv

• (figurative)
  "He wasn’t just cool to me, he was downright rude."
• (figurative)
  "Ros[alind]. Not true in loue? / Cel[ia]. Yes, vvhen he is in, but I thinke he is not in. / Ros. You haue heard him ſvveare dovvnright he vvas."
• (obsolete)
  "Cedentes capilli, heares [hairs] hanging down ryght."
• (obsolete)
  "This is the ſoul that I vvith preſſer quill / Muſt novv purſue and fall upon dovvn-right, […]"

adj

• (figurative)
  "For although in that ancient and diffuſed adoration of IdolLs, unto the Prieſts and ſubtiler heads, the vvorſhip perhaps might be ſymbolicall, and as thoſe Images ſome vvay related unto their deities, yet vvas the Idolatry direct and dovvne-right in the people, vvhoſe credulity is illimitable, vvho may be made believe that any thing is God, and may be made believe there is no God at all."
• (figurative)
  "The ſay this Angelo vvas not made by Man and VVoman, after this dovvne-right vvay of Creation: is it true, thinke you?"
• (obsolete)
  "Downeright ſtroke […] taille"
• (obsolete)
  "[T]he merchant's wife, next to her who abounds in plenty, is not to have downright money, but the mercenary part of her mind is engaged with a present of plate, and a little ambition."

noun

• (chiefly in the plural) A low grade of wool from the lower parts of the sides of a fleece.
  "It is ſaid, there are nine Sorts of VVool contained in one good Fleece, vvhich to make out, they ſay, that there are five Sorts for making Cloth, and four for Combings; a ſuperfine VVool, a head VVool, Dovvnrights, Seconds, and Livery."
• (rare) A vertical line; a perpendicular, a vertical.
  "[T]he middle of it [i.e., the thigh, is] the prop or thiller, the body the vveight, and the leg the povver; either of vvhich being brought by a ſharp angle to a dovvnright or perpendicular or more, vvith the thiller, vvill by ſo much leſſen the vveight, from the yielded aſſumption in that mechanick povver, That the point, vvhich is toucht by a perpendicular from the centre of heavineſs, is one of the terms: […]"