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As lovers do. As they sat down here loverwise. W. D. Howells.

Made, as a vowel, with a low position of part of the tongue in relation to the palate; as, . See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 5, 10, 11.

A bell to be hung on the neck of a sheep. A lowbell hung about a sheep's . . . neck. Howell.

lumberman. [U.S.] Lumberers have a notion that he (the woodpecker) is harmful to timber. Lowell.

To make lustrous. [R. & Poetic] Flooded and lustered with her loosened gold. Lowell.

The supposed act of turning one's self or another person into a wolf. Lowell.

A short, straight, horizontal mark [-], placed over vowels to denote that they are to be pronounced with a long sound; as, a, in dame; e, in seam, etc.

To augment; to increase. [Obs.] Howell.

ress; an awkward, tactless, or offensive way of accosting one or talking with one. W. D. Howells.

Of or relating to the Masora, or to its authors. Masoretic points and accents, the vowel points and accents of the Hebrew text of the Bible, of which the first mention is in the Masora.

A species of gull or tern. [Prov.] Lowell.

A discharge from the bowels of black matter, consisting of altered blood.

ildings and curtilage, and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household. Cowell. Bouvier. They wedded her to sixty thousand pounds, To lands in Kent, and messuages in York. Tennyson.

A maker of verses. Bale. Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer. Lowell.

ngue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; -- said of certain vowel sounds; as, a (ale), ê (êll), o (old). See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 10, 11.

interior country; distant from the coast or seashore; as, midland towns or inhabitants. Howell.

To make mild, or milder. Lowell.

Miltonic. Lowell.

lso, in the old style, used attributively, instead of my, before a noun beginning with a vowel. I kept myself from mine iniquity. Ps. xviii. 23.

To render delicate or dainty. [Obs.] Howell.