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A low fellow. [Obs.]

The state or quality of being low.

Of or pertaining to the time of Allhallows. [Obs.] "Allhallown summer." Shak. (i. e., late summer; "Indian Summer").

Out of breath; tired; exhausted. "Their horses much blown." Sir W. Scott.

One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl. The clown, the child of nature, without guile. Cowper.

Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Clownishness. L'Estrange.

Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward. "Clownish hands." Spenser. "Clownish mimic." Prior. -- Clown"ish*ly, adv.

The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke.

A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. [U.S.] Bartlett.

p. p. of Fly; -- often used with the auxiliary verb to be; as, the birds are flown.

Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul. Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled. Thackeray.

Fully expanded, as a blossom; as, a full-bloun rose. Denham.

Inflated, as with conceit.

Elevated; proud. "High-flown hopes." Denham.

State of being hollow. Bacon.

Blown in or into. [Obs.]

Quality or state of being mellow.

Inflated with wind. Dryden.

A genus of trees of the order Scrophulariaceæ, consisting of one species, Paulownia imperialis.