What does "downward" mean?

Additional senses

1. 2.From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another in a descending line. A ring the county wears, That downward hath descended in his house, From son to son, some four or five descents. Shak.
2. 3.Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous. With downward force That drove the sand along he took his way. Dryden.
3. 4.Descending from a head, origin, or source; as, a downward line of descent.
4. 5.Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected; as, downward thoughts. Sir P. Sidney.