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The state or quality of being low.

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

State of being hollow. Bacon.

Quality or state of being mellow.

The quality or condition of being sallow. Addison.

Quality or state of being shallow.

The quality or state of being slow.

The quality or state of being yellow; as, the yellowness of an orange.

Hollowness. [Obs.] The cavity or hollowness of the place. Goodwin.

Lowness in price, considering the usual price, or real value.

ve or Coercitive force (Magnetism), the power or force which in iron or steel produces a slowness or difficulty in imparting magnetism to it, and also interposes an obstacle to the return of a bar to its natural state when active magnetism has ceased. It plainly depends on the molecular constitution of the metal. Nicho…

Hollowness; concavity.

me time. There is no difference the concurrent echo and the iterant but the quickness or slowness of the return. Bacon. Changes . . . concurrent with the visual changes in the eye. Tyndall.

f being deep, profound, mysterious, secretive, etc.; depth; profundity; -- opposed to shallowness. Because they had no deepness of earth. Matt. xiii. 5.

Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides, Of sorrow, and dejection, and despair, Our frailty can sustain, thy tidings bring. Milton.

op for a time; to linger; to tarry. There seem to be certain bounds to the quickness and slowness of the succession of those ideas, . . . beyond which they can neither delay nor hasten. Locke.

Dejection; despondency; lowness. In a great depression of spirit. Baker.

Lowness; as, depth of sound.

The quality of being dilatory; lateness; slowness; tardiness; sluggishness.

Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged. "Had a drag in his walk." Hazlitt.