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Inhabiting the seashore, esp. the zone between high-water and low-water mark.

An allowance of food statedly given out; a ration, as to a family, to servants, to horses, etc. The emperor's officers every night went through the town from house to house whereat any English gentleman did repast or lodge, and served their liveries for all night: first, the officers brought into the house a cast of fi…

A series of strata in the lower Silurian formations of Great Britain; -- so named from Llandeilo in Southern Wales. See Chart of Geology.

One who loafs; a lazy lounger. Lowell.

A dull, sluggish person; a lubber; a lob. [Low]

An inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another; -- called also lift lock.

power of moving from place to place, characteristic of the higher animals and some of the lower forms of plant life.

One engaged in logging. See Log, v. i. [U.S.] Lowell.

To bend; to box; to stoop. [Archaic] Chaucer. Longfellow. He fair the knight saluted, louting low. Spenser.

A diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. Cf. Fusil.

A square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail. Totten.

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

A low fleshy fern (Botrychium Lunaria) with lunate segments of the leaf or frond.

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.

Same as Low side window, under Low, a.

A genus of spiral gastropod shells, often of large size, characteristic of the lower Silurian rocks.

Furious with rage, terror, or disease; -- said of the lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia; rabid; as, a mad dog.

Great of mind; elevated in soul or in sentiment; raised above what is low, mean, or ungenerous; of lofty and courageous spirit; as, a magnanimous character; a magnanimous conqueror. Be magnanimous in the enterprise. Shak. To give a kingdom hath been thought Greater and nobler done, and to law down Far more magnanimousa…

voltaic series of two or more large plates, producing a great quantity of electricity of low tension, and hence adapted to the exhibition of electro-magnetic phenomena. [R.]