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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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7,619 words match “LOW”

LOWERING a.
Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.
LOWERINGLY adv.
In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom.
LOWERMOST a.
Lowest.
LOWERY a.
Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
LOWGH; LOWH n.
strong imp. of Laugh. Etym: [Cf. 1st Low and 2d Lough.] Chaucer.
LOWING n.
The calling sound made by cows and other bovine animals.
LOWISH a.
Somewhat low. [Colloq.] Richardson.
LOWK n.
See Louk. [Obs.] Chaucer.
LOWLAND 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 n.
A native or inhabitant of the Lowlands, especially of the Lowlands of Scotland, as distinguished from Highlander.
LOWLIHOOD; LOWLIHEAD n.
A lowly state. [R.] Tennyson.
LOWLILY 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 n. 2 definitions
The state or quality of being lowly; humility; humbleness of mind. Walk . . . with all lowliness and meekness. Eph. iv. 1, 2.
LOWLY a. 6 definitions
Not high; not elevated in place; low. "Lowly lands." Dryden.
LOWN n.
A low fellow. [Obs.]
LOWNESS n.
The state or quality of being low.
LOWRY n.
An open box car used on railroads. Compare Lorry.
AFLOW adv.
Flowing. Their founts aflow with tears. R. Browning.
AFTER-GLOW n.
A glow of refulgence in the western sky after sunset.
AGLOW adv.
In a glow; glowing; as, cheeks aglow; the landscape all aglow.
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