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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.

An approver or abettor. [Obs.]

An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding.

To besprinkle or scatter over with, or as with, flowers. Hobbes.

A plant of the genus Campanula; -- so named from its bell- shaped flowers.

One who, or that which, bellows.

A genus of bulbous plants, natives of Southern Africa, named Hæmanthus, of the Amaryllis family. The juice of H. toxicarius is used by the Hottentots to poison their arrows.

One who, or that which, blows.

An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable.

See Cauliflower.

Any plant of the genus Rudbeckia; -- so called from the cone- shaped disk of the flower head. Also, any plant of the related genera Ratibida and Brauneria, the latter usually known as purple coneflower.

A conspicuous wild flower (Centaurea Cyanus), growing in grainfields.

A kind of campion; according to Gerarde, the Lychnis Flos- cuculi.

A species of Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos- cuculi).

A genus consisting mostly of tropical perennial herbs (Commelina), having ephemeral flowers.