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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Low \Low\, obs. strong imp. of {Laugh}. --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Low \Low\ (l[=o]), verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Lowed} (l[=o]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lowing}.] [OE. lowen, AS. hl[=o]wan; akin to D. loeijen, OHG. hl[=o]jan, hluojan.] To make the calling sound of cows and other bovine animals; to moo.
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea. --Gray.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Low \Low\, noun The calling sound ordinarily made by cows and other bovine animals.
Talking voices and the law of herds. --Wordsworth.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Low \Low\, noun [AS. hl[=a]w; akin to Goth. hlaiw a grave, hlains a hill, and to E. lean to incline.] A hill; a mound; a grave. [Obs. except in place names.] --Skeat.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Low \Low\ (l[=o]; Scot. lou), noun [Icel. log, logi; akin to E. light, noun] Fire; a flame; a light. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Low \Low\, verb (used without an object) To burn; to blaze. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Burns.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Low \Low\ (l[=o]), adjective [Compar. {Lower} (l[=o]"[~e]r); superl. {Lowest}.] [OE. low, louh, lah, Icel. l[=a]gr; akin to Sw. l[*a]g, Dan. lav, D. laag, and E. lie. See {Lie} to be prostrate.]
1. Occupying an inferior position or place; not high or elevated; depressed in comparison with something else; as, low ground; a low flight.
2. Not rising to the usual height; as, a man of low stature; a low fence.
3. Near the horizon; as, the sun is low at four o'clock in winter, and six in summer.
4. Sunk to the farthest ebb of the tide; as, low tide.
5. Beneath the usual or remunerative rate or amount, or the ordinary value; moderate; cheap; as, the low price of corn; low wages.
6. Not loud; as, a low voice; a low sound.
7. (Mus.) Depressed in the scale of sounds; grave; as, a low pitch; a low note.
8. (Phon.) Made, as a vowel, with a low position of part of the tongue in relation to the palate; as, [a^] ([a^]m), [add] ([add]ll). See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 5, 10, 11.
9. Near, or not very distant from, the equator; as, in the low northern latitudes.
10. Numerically small; as, a low number.
11. Wanting strength or animation; depressed; dejected; as, low spirits; low in spirits.
12. Depressed in condition; humble in rank; as, men of low condition; the lower classes.
Why but to keep ye low and ignorant ? --Milton.
13. Mean; vulgar; base; dishonorable; as, a person of low mind; a low trick or stratagem.
14. Not elevated or sublime; not exalted in thought or diction; as, a low comparison.
In comparison of these divine writers, the noblest wits of the heathen world are low and dull. --Felton.
15. Submissive; humble. ''Low reverence.'' --Milton.
16. Deficient in vital energy; feeble; weak; as, a low pulse; made low by sickness.
17. Moderate; not intense; not inflammatory; as, low heat; a low temperature; a low fever.
18. Smaller than is reasonable or probable; as, a low estimate.
19. Not rich, high seasoned, or nourishing; plain; simple; as, a low diet.
Note: Low is often used in the formation of compounds which require no special explanation; as, low-arched, low-browed, low-crowned, low-heeled, low-lying, low-priced, low-roofed, low-toned, low-voiced, and the like.
{Low Church}. See {High Church}, under {High}.
{Low Countries}, the Netherlands.
{Low German}, {Low Latin}, etc. See under {German}, {Latin}, etc.
{Low life}, humble life.
{Low milling}, a process of making flour from grain by a single grinding and by siftings.
{Low relief}. See {Bas-relief}.
{Low side window} (Arch.), a peculiar form of window common in medi[ae]val churches, and of uncertain use. Windows of this sort are narrow, near the ground, and out of the line of the windows, and in many different situations in the building.
{Low spirits}, despondency.
{Low steam}, steam having a low pressure.
{Low steel}, steel which contains only a small proportion of carbon, and can not be hardened greatly by sudden cooling.
{Low Sunday}, the Sunday next after Easter; -- popularly so called.
{Low tide}, the farthest ebb of the tide; the tide at its lowest point; low water.
{Low water}. (a) The lowest point of the ebb tide; a low stage of the in a river, lake, etc. (b) (Steam Boiler) The condition of an insufficient quantity of water in the boiler.
{Low water alarm} or {Low water indicator} (Steam Boiler), a contrivance of various forms attached to a boiler for giving warning when the water is low.
{Low water mark}, that part of the shore to which the waters recede when the tide is the lowest. --Bouvier.
{Low wine}, a liquor containing about 20 percent of alcohol, produced by the first distillation of wash; the first run of the still; -- often in the plural.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Low \Low\, verb (used with an object) To depress; to lower. [Obs.] --Swift.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Low \Low\, noun (Card Playing) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Low \Low\, adverb
1. In a low position or manner; not aloft; not on high; near the ground.
2. Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply; as, he sold his wheat low.
3. In a low or mean condition; humbly; meanly.
4. In time approaching our own.
In that part of the world which was first inhabited, even as low down as Abraham's time, they wandered with their flocks and herds. --Locke.
5. With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently; as, to speak low. --Addison.
The . . . odorous wind Breathes low between the sunset and the moon. --Tennyson.
6. With a low musical pitch or tone.
Can sing both high and low. --Shak.
7. In subjection, poverty, or disgrace; as, to be brought low by oppression, by want, or by vice. --Spenser.
8. (Astron.) In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; -- said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution; as, the moon runs low, that is, is comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
low
adjective
1: less than normal in degree or intensity or amount; "low prices"; "the reservoire is low" [ant: {high}]
2: literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension; "low ceilings"; "low clouds"; "low hills"; "the sun is low"; "low furniture"; "a low bow" [ant: {high}]
3: very low in volume; "a low murmur"; "the low-toned murmur of the surf" [syn: {low-toned}]
4: unrefined in character; "low comedy"
5: used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency [syn: {low-pitched}] [ant: {high}]
6: of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick" [syn: {abject}, {low-down}, {miserable}, {scummy}, {scurvy}]
7: low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings" [syn: {humble}, {lowly}, {modest}, {small}]
8: no longer sufficient; "supplies are low"; "our funds are depleted" [syn: {depleted}]
9: subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit" [syn: {broken}, {crushed}, {humbled}, {humiliated}]
10: low in spirits; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted" [syn: {blue}, {depressed}, {dispirited}, {down(p)}, {downcast}, {downhearted}, {down in the mouth}, {low-spirited}]
11: being the gear producing the lowest drive speed; "use first gear on steep hills" [syn: {first}]
noun
1: an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation; "a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow" [syn: {low pressure}, {depression}]
2: British political cartoonist (born in New Zealand) who created the character Colonel Blimp (1891-1963) [syn: {David Low}, {Sir David Low}, {Sir David Alexander Cecil Low}]
3: a low level or position or degree; "the stock market fell to a new low" [ant: {high}]
4: the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving [syn: {first gear}, {first}, {low gear}]
adverb: in a low position; near the ground; "the branches hung low"
verb: make a low noise, characteristic of bovines [syn: {moo}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
614 Moby Thesaurus words for "low": Doric, Hydromatic, a la sourdine, abject, abominable, accented, against, ailing, air mass, alveolar, anticyclone, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, arrant, articulated, asking price, assimilated, atrocious, automatic transmission, back, bad, barbaric, barbarous, barely audible, baritone, bark, barytone, base, base-minded, baseborn, bass, bawl, bay, bearish prices, beggared, beggarly, bell, bellow, below the salt, bid price, bilabial, black, blamable, blameworthy, blare, blat, blate, bleat, book value, boom, bottoming out, bowed-down, bray, brief, broad, broke, budget, bullish prices, business cycle, business fluctuations, bust, cacophonous, cacuminal, call, call price, cast down, caterwaul, central, cerebral, cheap, checked, cheesy, close, closing price, clumsy, coarse, cockney, cogwheel, cold front, cold sector, common, commonplace, compact, compendious, con, concise, consonant, consonantal, contemptible, continuant, contralto, cooling off, couchant, crass, criminal, crisis, crouched, crude, crummy, cry, cursory, curt, curtal, curtate, cyclone, damnable, dark, dashed, debased, decline, decrescendo, decurtate, deep, deep-echoing, deep-pitched, deep-toned, deepmouthed, degraded, dejected, demeaning, dental, depraved, depressed, depression, depthless, despaired of, despairing, despicable, despondent, desponding, destitute, differential, differential gear, dim, dimly, dirty, disadvantaged, disappointed, disapprobatory, disapproving, discontented, discouraged, disenchanted, disgraceful, disgruntled, disgusting, disheartened, disillusioned, dispirited, displeased, dissatisfied, dissenting, dissimilated, distant, doggerel, done for, donsie, dorsal, down, downcast, downhearted, downthrown, downturn, drooping, droopy, dying, dysphemistic, earthy, easy, economic, economic cycle, economic expansion, economic growth, economy, evil, execrable, expanding economy, expansion, expiring, face value, facing death, faint, faintly, fallen, feeble, feebly, feeling low, few, fixed price, flagitious, flagrant, flash price, flat, flurry, flutter, footling, foul, frank, freewheel, front, frugal, fulsome, gear, gear train, gearbox, gearing, gearshift, gearwheel, gentle, gently, give tongue, give voice, given up, glide, glossal, glottal, going, graceless, grave, gross, growth, gutter, guttural, half-heard, hard, harsh, heartless, heavy, heinous, high, high growth rate, high-pressure area, hollow, homely, hopeless, howl, humble, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest, hushedly, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, ignoble, impoverished, improper, impure, in articulo mortis, in bad taste, in extremis, in low spirits, in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps, in the shade, incapable of life, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, inconsequential, inconsiderable, incorrect, indecorous, indigent, indignant, indisposed, indistinct, inelegant, inexpensive, infamous, infelicitous, inferior, infra dig, inglorious, iniquitous, innocuous, insignificant, instantaneous, intermediate, intonated, isobar, isometric, isometric line, isopiestic line, isotherm, isothermal line, issue par, issue price, junior, knavish, knee-high, knocked flat, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, laid low, languishing, lateral, lax, least, less, lesser, light, lingual, liquid, little, low-built, low-down, low-hung, low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-minded, low-pitched, low-pressure area, low-priced, low-set, low-spirited, low-statured, lowborn, lowbred, lower, lowered, lowest, lowliest, lowly, lumpen, manageable, mangy, market expansion, market price, market value, meager, mean, measly, meow, mew, mewl, miaow, mid, miniature, minor, miserable, moderate, modest, monophthongal, monstrous, moo, moribund, murmured, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, naughty, neap, near death, needy, nefarious, negligible, neigh, nether, neutral, nicker, no great shakes, nominal, nominal value, nonclerical, nonviable, obnoxious, occluded front, occlusive, odious, offering price, open, opening price, opposed, opposing, ordinary, outlandish, overdrive, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, paltry, par, par value, parity, peak, peaking, peccant, penurious, pessimistic, petty, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pianissimo, piano, picayune, picayunish, pining, pitch, pitched, plain, plebeian, poky, polar front, poor, posttonic, price, prone, prosperity, prostrate, pule, put price, quotation, quoted price, rack, rally, rank, raw, reasonable, recession, recovery, recumbent, reduced, reprehensible, reprobate, reptilian, retroflex, reverse, roar, rough, rounded, rude, runty, scabby, scandalous, scarcely heard, screak, scream, screech, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, second rank, second string, secondary, semivowel, sensible, sepulchral, servile, settling price, shabby, shabby-genteel, shallow, shameful, shoddy, short, short and sweet, simple, sinful, sinking, skin-deep, slashed, slipping, slipping away, slowdown, slump, small, soft, soft-sounding, soft-voiced, softly, sonant, sordamente, sordid, sordo, sorry, spiritless, squalid, squall, squall line, squat, squatty, squeak, squeal, standard transmission, stated value, stationary front, stick shift, stooped, stopped, stressed, strong, stumpy, sub, subaltern, subaudible, subdued, subduedly, subjacent, subject, submerged, subordinate, subservient, succinct, suicidal, summary, sunk, sunken, superficial, supine, surd, swings, syllabic, synchromesh, synoptic, tasteless, teachable, tense, terminal, thick, third rank, third string, third-estate, throaty, tiny, token, tonal, tonic, transient, transmission, trifling, trivial, troat, turned-off, twangy, ululate, unaccented, unappreciative, unapproving, unclear, uncomplimentary, uncourtly, uncouth, under, underprivileged, undignified, undistinguished, unelevated, uneuphonious, unexpensive, unfavorable, unfelicitous, unforgivable, ungenteel, ungraceful, unhappy, unimportant, unmentionable, unpardonable, unpolished, unpretentious, unrefined, unrounded, unseemly, unspeakable, unstressed, unwashed, unworthy, upturn, velar, vicious, vile, villainous, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, vulgar, wail, warm front, weak, weak-voiced, weakly, weary of life, weather map, whicker, whine, whinny, whispered, wicked, wide, wind-shift line, within means, woebegone, woeful, world-weary, worth the money, wretched, wrong, yap, yawl, yawp, yelp, yip, yowl
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
LOW-:BRED:, adjective "Raised" instead of brought up.
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