noun. A frown; scowl; frowning; sullenness.

noun. Cloudiness; gloominess.

To frown; scowl; look sullen; watch in sullen silence.

To appear dark or gloomy; be clouded; threaten a storm.

To look bad; appear in bad condition.

To lurk; crouch; skulk.

To strike, as a clock, with a low prolonged sound; toll the curfew.

noun. Hire; reward.

To cause to descend; let down; take or bring down: as, to lower the sail of a ship; to lower cargo into the hold.

To reduce or bring down, as in height, amount, value, estimation, condition, degree, etc.; make low or lower: as, to lower a wall (by removing a part of the top); to lower the water in a canal (by allowing some to run off); to lower the temperature of a room or the quality of goods; to lower the point of a spear or the muzzle of a gun; to lower prices or the rate of interest.

To bring down in spirit; humble; humiliate: as, to lower one's pride; to lower one in the estimation of others.

In relief-engraving

to scrape or cut away, as the surface of a block, in such manner as to leave it highest in the middle; or

to depress, as any part of the surface which it is desired shall print lightly from being exposed to a diminished pressure.

In music, to change from a high to a low pitch; specifically, in musical notation, to depress; flat: said of changing the significance of a staff-degree or of a note on such a degree by attaching a flat to it either in the signature or as an accidental.

To fall; sink; grow less; become lower in any way.

adjective. Compar. of low, a.

intransitive verb. To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease.

noun. Cloudiness; gloominess.

noun. A frowning; sullenness.

adjective. relating to small or noncapital letters which were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case.

transitive verb. To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; ; sometimes, to pull down.

transitive verb. To reduce the height of

transitive verb. To depress as to direction; ; to make less elevated as to object.

transitive verb. To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of

transitive verb. To bring down; to humble.

transitive verb. To reduce in value, amount, etc.

intransitive verb. 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.

intransitive verb. To frown; to look sullen.

adjective. comparative form of low: more low

adverb. comparative form of low: more low

verb. To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down

verb. to pull down

verb. To reduce the height of

verb. To depress as to direction

verb. To make less elevated

verb. To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of

verb. To bring down; to humble

verb. (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.

verb. To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.

verb. To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease

verb. To decrease in value, amount, etc.

verb. 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.

verb. To frown; to look sullen.

verb. cause to drop or sink

verb. look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval

verb. set lower

verb. move something or somebody to a lower position

verb. make lower or quieter

noun. the lower of two berths

"And as it gets hold of you it crowds your mind and heart and life till every other is either crowded out, or crowded to a lower place; _out_, if it jars; _lower place_, if it agrees, for every agreeing bit yields to the lead of this tremendous message."

higher  

abase  abate  degrade  depreciate  diminish  

alter  berth  built in bed  bunk  change  

blower  dougher  goer  grower  knower  

buildup  depreciation  deterioration  diminution  encroachment  

abase  abash  abated  ablated  abridge  

low  

lowed  lowered  lowering  lowers  lowing