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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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7,619 words match “LOW”

SAFFLOW n.
The safflower. [Obs.]
SAFFLOWER n. 3 definitions
An annual composite plant (Carthamus tinctorius), the flowers of which are used as a dyestuff and in making rouge; bastard, or false, saffron.
SALLOW n. 4 definitions
The willow; willow twigs. [Poetic] Tennyson. And bend the pliant sallow to a shield. Fawkes. The sallow knows the basketmaker's thumb. Emerson.
SALLOWISH a.
Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
SALLOWNESS n.
The quality or condition of being sallow. Addison.
SCAPEGALLOWS n.
One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes. [Colloq.] Dickens.
SCHOOLFELLOW n.
One bred at the same school; an associate in school.
SEA FLOWER n.
A sea anemone, or any related anthozoan.
SEA SWALLOW n. 4 definitions
The common tern.
SEA WILLOW n.
A gorgonian coral with long flexible branches.
SHALLOW a. 7 definitions
Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton.
SHALLOW-BODIED a.
Having a moderate depth of hold; -- said of a vessel.
SHALLOW-BRAINED a.
Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
SHALLOW-HEARTED a.
Incapable of deep feeling. Tennyson.
SHALLOW-PATED a.
Shallow-brained.
SHALLOW-WAISTED a.
Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.
SHALLOWLY adv.
In a shallow manner.
SHALLOWNESS n.
Quality or state of being shallow.
SLOW a. 12 definitions
tively long time; not swift; not quick in motion; not rapid; moderate; deliberate; as, a slow stream; a slow motion.
SLOW-WITTED a.
Dull of apprehension; not possessing quick intelligence.
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