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  • English Word Low-mindedness Definition The quality of being lowminded; meanness; baseness.
  • English Word Low-necked Definition Cut low in the neck; decollete; -- said of a woman's dress.
  • English Word Low-pressure Definition Having, employing, or exerting, a low degree of pressure.
  • English Word Low-spirited Definition Deficient in animation and courage; dejected; depressed; not sprightly.
  • English Word Low-studded Definition Furnished or built with short studs; as, a low-studded house or room.
  • English Word Low-thoughted Definition Having one's thoughts directed toward mean or insignificant subjects.
  • English Word Lowbell Definition A bell used in fowling at night, to frighten birds, and, with a sudden light, to make them fly into a net.
  • English Word Lowbell Definition A bell to be hung on the neck of a sheep.
  • English Word Lowbell Definition To frighten, as with a lowbell.
  • English Word Lowborn Definition Born in a low condition or rank; -- opposed to highborn.
  • English Word Lowbred Definition Bred, or like one bred, in a low condition of life; characteristic or indicative of such breeding; rude; impolite; vulgar; as, a lowbred fellow; a lowbred remark.
  • English Word Lowed Definition of Low
  • English Word Lower Definition Compar. of Low, a.
  • English Word Lower Definition 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.
  • English Word Lower Definition To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret.
  • English Word Lower Definition To depress as to direction; as, to lower the aim of a gun; to make less elevated as to object; as, to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes.
  • English Word Lower Definition To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of; as, to lower the temperature of anything; to lower one's vitality; to lower distilled liquors.
  • English Word Lower Definition To bring down; to humble; as, to lower one's pride.
  • English Word Lower Definition To reduce in value, amount, etc. ; as, to lower the price of goods, the rate of interest, etc.
  • English Word Lower Definition To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease; as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose.
  • English Word Lower Definition To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
  • English Word Lower Definition To frown; to look sullen.
  • English Word Lower Definition Cloudiness; gloominess.
  • English Word Lower Definition A frowning; sullenness.
  • English Word Lower-case Definition 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.
  • English Word Lowered Definition of Lower
  • English Word Lowered Definition of Lower
  • English Word Lowering Definition of Lower
  • English Word Lowering Definition of Lower
  • English Word Lowering Definition Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.