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Lowering
(Low"er*ing) a. Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.
Loweringly
(Low"er*ing*ly), adv. In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom.
Lowermost
(Low"er*most`) a. [Irreg. superl. of Low. Cf. Uppermost, Foremost, etc.] Lowest.
Lowery
(Low"er*y) a. Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
Lowgh
(Lowgh Lowh), obs. strong imp. of Laugh. [Cf. 1st Low and 2d Lough.] Chaucer.
Lowing
(Low"ing) n. The calling sound made by cows and other bovine animals.
Lowish
(Low"ish), a. Somewhat low. [Colloq.] Richardson.
Lowk
(Lowk) n. See Louk. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Lowland
(Low"land) n. Land which is low with respect to the neighboring country; a low or level country; —
opposed to highland.
The Lowlands, Belgium and Holland; the Netherlands; also, the southern part of Scotland.
Lowlander
(Low"land*er) n. A native or inhabitant of the Lowlands, especially of the Lowlands of Scotland,
as distinguished from Highlander.
Lowlihood
(Low"li*hood Low"li*head) n. A lowly state. [R.] Tennyson.
Lowlily
(Low"li*ly), adv. In a lowly place or manner; humbly. [Obs. or R.]
Thinking lowlily of himself and highly of those better than himself.
J. C. Shairp. Lowliness
(Low"li*ness), n. [From Lowly.]
1. The state or quality of being lowly; humility; humbleness of mind.
Walk . . . with all lowliness and meekness.
Eph. iv. 1, 2. 2. Low condition, especially as to manner of life.
The lowliness of my fortune has not brought me to flatter vice.
Dryden. Low-lived
(Low"-lived`) a. Characteristic of, or like, one bred in a low and vulgar condition of life; mean; dishonorable; contemptible; as,
low-lived dishonesty.
Lowly
(Low"ly) a. [Compar. Lowlier ; superl. Lowliest.] [Low, a. + -ly.]
1. Not high; not elevated in place; low. "Lowly lands." Dryden.
2. Low in rank or social importance.
One common right the great and lowly claims.
Pope. 3. Not lofty or sublime; humble.
These rural poems, and their lowly strain.
Dryden. 4. Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart.
Matt. xi. 29.
