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A chest of drawers not more than four feet high; -- applied commonly to the lower half of a tallboy from which the upper half has been removed. [U. S.]

Bred, or like one bred, in a low condition of life; characteristic or indicative of such breeding; rude; impolite; vulgar; as, a lowbred fellow; a lowbred remark.

Compar. of Low, a.

Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.

Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.

In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom.

Lowest.

Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.

strong imp. of Laugh. Etym: [Cf. 1st Low and 2d Lough.] Chaucer.

The calling sound made by cows and other bovine animals.

Somewhat low. [Colloq.] Richardson.

See Louk. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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.

A native or inhabitant of the Lowlands, especially of the Lowlands of Scotland, as distinguished from Highlander.

A lowly state. [R.] Tennyson.

In a lowly place or manner; humbly. [Obs. or R.] Thinking lowlily of himself and highly of those better than himself. J. C. Shairp.

The state or quality of being lowly; humility; humbleness of mind. Walk . . . with all lowliness and meekness. Eph. iv. 1, 2.

Not high; not elevated in place; low. "Lowly lands." Dryden.

A low fellow. [Obs.]

The state or quality of being low.