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Show Thoug count'nanc age, wit palmer, grey wit Th His head ev'n to the earth before the king did bow Drayton @. a Lour feems i wor Thi 12. Impotent Lo'urisH. adj bumpkinly Wh Why but to kee To keep the greater awe an will ufe to kee no mote coft tha This Joutifh clown is fuch, that you never fa fo ill-favoured a vifar; his behaviour fuch, tha Sidney he is beyond the degree of ridiculous adv "ay Lo uTisHLY a bumpkin Low. adj 1. Not high Thei Progreflive 2 m /o no high no Milton retrograde i tion place or local fitua O mighty Caefar | doft thou'lye fo Jow glories fpoils triumphs Shrunk to this little meafure ? Shake/. Fulius Ce)Equal in days and nights, except to thof Beyond the polar circles; to them da Had unbenighted thone, while the /ozw fun To recompenie his diftance, in their figh {% rounde #ill th' horizon and not know Milton Or eaft or weft Whatfoever is wafhed away from them is carrie down into the Jozver grounds, and into the fea, an nothing is brought back. Burnet's Tha of the Earth 4. Defcending far downwards; deep S {2 Th Milton lowef? bottom fhook of Erebus So high as heav'd the tumid hills, fo /o2 Down funk a hollow bottom Capacious bed of waters b broad and deep Milton His volant touc Inftin& through all proportions /ozv and hig ¥led and purfu'd tranfverfe the refonant fugue Milton fhal 5. Not deep; not fwelling high low: ufed of water As two men were walking by the fea-fide at / water, they faw an oyfter, and both pointed at i L'Efirange together It is Jo when fuc Arterd Jo i co as i p hi o No 6 7. Not loud; not noify # ‘As when in open air we blow The breath, though firain'd, founds flat and Jow But if a trumpet take the blaft le Wa laf i e ma an h hi i lift 1 at ebb fure with his accufer peccadillo's are put in to fiell the charge The theatre is fo well contrived very deep of the ftage, th heard diftinétly to the farthef and yet, if you raife you pleafe, there is nothing lik fufion that from th loaeft found may b part of the audience voice as high as yo an echo to caufe con- Addifon on Italy 8. In latitudes near to the line They take their courfe either high to the north or low to the fouth. Abbot's Deferip. of the World 9. Not rifing to fo great a fum as fom other accumulation of particulars ‘Who can imagine, that in fixteen or feventee hundred years time, taking the /szer chronology that the earth had then ftood, mankind fhould b Burnet propagated no farther than Judza 10. Late in time : as, the /ower empire 11. Dejeéted ; deprefled His fpirits are fo /o his voice is drown'd He hears as from afar, or ina fwoon Like the deaf murmur of a diftant found Vor IL Jo Drypden which is reafon that no wron But juftice, and fome fatal courfe annexed Deprives them of their outward liberty Milton Their inward loft 15. Not fublime thoughts that are /s2v an wulgar, but, at the fame time, has not fo man Addijon thoughts that are fublime and noble In comparifon of thefe divine writers, the noblef wits of the heathen world are /ow and dull. Felton reverent Submiflive ; humble 1 bring them to receiv From thee their names, and pay their fealt Milton With Jozv fubjection From the tree her ftep the turn'd But firft /o reverence done, as to the pow' "That dwelt within Low. adv 1. Not aloft We wand'ring go through dreary waftes ‘Where round fome mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps th o'e noddin Pope deeps It i 2. Not at a high price; meanly chiefly ufed in compofition Pxoud of their numbers and fecure in foul, The confident and over-lufty French Do the /ow-rated Englifh play at dice? Shakefpeare This is the prettieft Zozv-born lafs, that eve Ran the greenford; nothing the does or {eems But fmacks of fomething greater than herfelf Whenever I a Shakefe Winter's Tale turned out my lodge defcend upon a Jow-fpirited creeping family Corruption, like a general flood Shall deluge all; and av'rice creeping on Swift Spread like a /ozv-born mift, and blot the fun. Pope 3. In times approaching towards our own In that part of the world which was firft inha bited, even as Jow down as Abraham' wandered with their flocks and herds 4. With a depreflion of the voice Lucia, fpeak /oxv, he is retir'd to rett 5. In a ftate of {ubjection How come 1ad he been born fome fimple thepherd's heir Lowe Lowe Prior an b lure into a net a flam The termination of local names a hill loey comes from the Saxon Pleap heap, or barrow; and fo the Gothick kblaiw is Gibfon monument or barrow 7o Lo'wer @. a. [from law. 1. To bring low; to bring down by wa of fubmiflion As our high veflels pafs their wat'ry way Let all the naval world due homage pay With hafty reverence their top-honours Jower Prior Confefling the aflerted power When water iffues out of the apertures wit more than ordinary rapidity, it bears along with i fuch particles of loofe matter as it met with in it paflage through the flone, and it fuftains thof particles till its motion begins to remit, when b degrees it wer time the Locke Addifon it that, having been once fo Je them and lets them fall Woodward 3. To leflen; to make lefs in price or value The kingdom will lofe by this levering of in tereft, if it makes foreigners withdraw any of thei money Creech Too noble for this place Dryden Lowe denotes a flame in Scotland ; an to Jowe, to flame And Jogo-built bodies are the growth of Spain ban he has grafs? o Foby vie 2. To fufter to fink down No luxury found roo In Jozww-rooft houfes, and bare walls of lome. Dryd Vaft yellow offsprings are the German's pride But hotter climates narrower frames obtain rock whe the wild afs bra the ox over his bell Milton not on high Jow-brow' the ver Lo'weeLL. n. /. [laeye, Dutch; leg Saxon; or log, Iflandick, a flame, an bell.] A kind of fowling in the night in which the birds are wakened by There under Ebon fhades and /oww-brow'd roc k As ragged as thy locks Milton In dark Cimmerian defert ever dwell My-eyes no objet me But Zew-hung clouds, that dipt themfelves in rain To fhake their fleeces on the earth again. Dryden An zo or di&ion 16 t The maids of Argo frantick cries And imitated Jowings, 8lI' R sfcommon Fair 16 grac'd his fhield, but I3 now With horns exalted frands, and feems to /szv not exalted in though He has not fo man rhym The /lowing herd, or fleecy fheep his care as, Jsw tricks virtue woul Ccow Dot betokening meannef Vet fometimes nations will decline fo /o7 Fro an low, to bellsw, Jou; and is by Dryde rightly rhymed to zow.] To bellow a ab or ftation 70 Low. @. n. [plopan, Saxon Th adjective Jow, not high, is pronounce Try in men of lizw and mean education, wh have never elevated their thoughts above the fpade Locke of mind It became a fpeading vine of /ow ftature Ezeks xviis 6 Ha Milton ye /zv and ignorant all quiet, he muft keep them i lefs fplendor ; which power h them as /ozv as he pleafes, and a makes for his own pleafure 14. Difhonourable Probably mif thiliings Ject Not rifing far upwards Are all thy conquefts but to awe Not elevated in ran adje&tive. value of guineas was /swed from one-and- ihilling and fixpence to one-and-twent Th twent S/‘alf{///u::i'L o hid 3. Not elevate be worft Graunt 13 Spenjer prioted for loawer He wooes both high and /s7v, both rich und poor wand'ring - courf the o gai th of a clown ; wit ai th lout. [fro To fink; to make low The loweft; moft dejected thing of fortune Shakefpeare Stands ftill in efperance Clownifh Wit Prior th [fro a « 70 Low {fubdued T Shakefpeare [from lour. lifted up themfelves fo ftrongly again He hates the fight, and fhuns the foe Shake/peare to fignify, to overpower 1 am lowted by a traitor villain And cannot help the noble chevalier Brought, and thoroughly fubje@ed, they afterward he before had gall and rage Which death or conqueft muft affuage He grows difpirited and /v lowting low % ILO LO' LO Som Locke people kno it is for their advantage t Child on Trade Liwwer their intereft 7 Lo'WEr. @ fall; to fink n T gro t lefs The prefent pleafure By revolution low'ring, does becom The oppofite of itfelf. Shakef. Ant. and Cleopatrd Zo Lo'wer. @. n. [It is doubtful wha was the primitive meaning of this word if it was originally applied to the appearance of the fky, it is no more tha to grow low, as the fky feems to do i dark weather: if it was firflt ufed of th countenance, it may be derived fro to look atkance: th the Dutc Jeerez ow found as oz in bouwr; i th wor loawer, when it means #o grow, or mak low, the oxv founds as ¢ 1n more. 1. To appear dark, ftormy, and gloomy to be clouded Now is the winter of our difconten Made glorious fummer by this fun of York And all the clouds that Joevered upon our houfe In the deep bofom of the ocean buried» Sbakef Th |