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See Knot.

One who knows. Shak.

A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms (Clematis vitalba).

See Lake dwellers, under Lake.

The water pepper (Polygonum Hydropiper), an aquatic plant of Europe and North America.

That part of the army, in Germany and Austria, which has completed the usual military service and is exempt from duty in time of peace, except that it is called out occasionally for drill.

Having lantern jaws or long, thin jaws; as, a lantern-jawed person.

Having edges or ends united by a lap weld; as, a lap-welded pipe.

To cut off the claws and balls of, as of a dog's fore feet. Wright.

A lawyer. [Obs.] Bale.

Weary of living. Shak.

In boxing, wrestling, etc., one weighingnot more than 133 pounds (U. S. amateur rules 135 pounds, Eng. 140 pounds).

A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber.

To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag. Lowered softly with a threefold cord of love Down to a silent grave. Tennyson.

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.

To swear falsely. [Obs.] Blount.