Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter L - Page 52

Lovely (superl.) Loving; tender.

Lovely (superl.) Very pleasing; -- applied loosely to almost anything which is not grand or merely pretty; as, a lovely view; a lovely valley; a lovely melody.

Lovely (adv.) In a manner to please, or to excite love.

Love-making (n.) Courtship.

Lovemonger (n.) One who deals in affairs of love.

Lover (n.) One who loves; one who is in love; -- usually limited, in the singular, to a person of the male sex.

Lover (n.) A friend; one strongly attached to another; one who greatly desires the welfare of any person or thing; as, a lover of his country.

Lover (n.) One who has a strong liking for anything, as books, science, or music.

Lover (n.) Alt. of Lovery

Lovery (n.) See Louver.

Loverwise (adv.) As lovers do.

Love-sick (a.) Languishing with love or amorous desire; as, a love-sick maid.

Love-sick (a.) Originating in, or expressive of, languishing love.

Love-sickness (n.) The state of being love-sick.

Lovesome (a.) Lovely.

Loving (a.) Affectionate.

Loving (a.) Expressing love or kindness; as, loving words.

Loving-kindness (n.) Tender regard; mercy; favor.

Lovingly (adv.) With love; affectionately.

Lovingness (n.) Affection; kind regard.

Lovyer (n.) A lover.

Low () strong imp. of Laugh.

Lowed (imp. & p. p.) of Low

Lowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Low

Low (v. i.) To make the calling sound of cows and other bovine animals; to moo.

Low (n.) The calling sound ordinarily made by cows and other bovine animals.

Low (n.) A hill; a mound; a grave.

Low (n.) Fire; a flame; a light.

Low (v. i.) To burn; to blaze.

Low (superl.) Occupying an inferior position or place; not high or elevated; depressed in comparison with something else; as, low ground; a low flight.

Low (superl.) Not rising to the usual height; as, a man of low stature; a low fence.

Low (superl.) Near the horizon; as, the sun is low at four o'clock in winter, and six in summer.

Low (superl.) Sunk to the farthest ebb of the tide; as, low tide.

Low (superl.) Beneath the usual or remunerative rate or amount, or the ordinary value; moderate; cheap; as, the low price of corn; low wages.

Low (superl.) Not loud; as, a low voice; a low sound.

Low (superl.) Depressed in the scale of sounds; grave; as, a low pitch; a low note.

Low (superl.) Made, as a vowel, with a low position of part of the tongue in relation to the palate; as, / (/m), / (all). See Guide to Pronunciation, // 5, 10, 11.

Low (superl.) Near, or not very distant from, the equator; as, in the low northern latitudes.

Low (superl.) Numerically small; as, a low number.

Low (superl.) Wanting strength or animation; depressed; dejected; as, low spirits; low in spirits.

Low (superl.) Depressed in condition; humble in rank; as, men of low condition; the lower classes.

Low (superl.) Mean; vulgar; base; dishonorable; as, a person of low mind; a low trick or stratagem.

Low (superl.) Not elevated or sublime; not exalted or diction; as, a low comparison.

Low (superl.) Submissive; humble.

Low (superl.) Deficient in vital energy; feeble; weak; as, a low pulse; made low by sickness.

Low (superl.) Moderate; not intense; not inflammatory; as, low heat; a low temperature; a low fever.

Low (superl.) Smaller than is reasonable or probable; as, a low estimate.

Low (superl.) Not rich, high seasoned, or nourishing; plain; simple; as, a low diet.

Low (n.) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.

Low (adv.) In a low position or manner; not aloft; not on high; near the ground.

Low (adv.) Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply; as, he sold his wheat low.

Low (adv.) In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.

Low (adv.) In time approaching our own.

Low (adv.) With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently; as, to speak low.

Low (adv.) With a low musical pitch or tone.

Low (adv.) In subjection, poverty, or disgrace; as, to be brought low by oppression, by want, or by vice.

Low (adv.) In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; -- said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution; as, the moon runs low, that is, is comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian.

Low (v. t.) To depress; to lower.

Lowbell (n.) A bell used in fowling at night, to frighten birds, and, with a sudden light, to make them fly into a net.

Lowbell (n.) A bell to be hung on the neck of a sheep.

Lowbell (v. t.) To frighten, as with a lowbell.

Lowborn (a.) Born in a low condition or rank; -- opposed to highborn.

Lowbred (a.) 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.

Low-church (a.) Not placing a high estimate on ecclesiastical organizations or forms; -- applied especially to Episcopalians, and opposed to high-church. See High Church, under High.

Low-churchism (n.) The principles of the low-church party.

-men (pl. ) of Low-churchman

Low-churchman (n.) One who holds low-church principles.

Low-churchmanship (n.) The state of being a low-churchman.

Lower (a.) Compar. of Low, a.

Lowered (imp. & p. p.) of Lower

Lowering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lower

Lower (a.) 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.

Lower (a.) To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret.

Lower (a.) 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.

Lower (a.) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of; as, to lower the temperature of anything; to lower one's vitality; to lower distilled liquors.

Lower (a.) To bring down; to humble; as, to lower one's pride.

Lower (a.) To reduce in value, amount, etc. ; as, to lower the price of goods, the rate of interest, etc.

Lower (v. i.) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease; as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose.

Lowered (imp. & p. p.) of Lower

Lowering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lower

Lower (v. i.) 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.

Lower (v. i.) To frown; to look sullen.

Lower (n.) Cloudiness; gloominess.

Lower (n.) A frowning; sullenness.

Lower-case (a.) 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.

Lowering (a.) Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.

Loweringly (adv.) In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom.

Lowermost (superl.) Lowest.

Lowery (a.) Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.

Lowgh () Alt. of Lowh

Lowh () strong imp. of Laugh.

Lowing (n.) The calling sound made by cows and other bovine animals.

Lowish (a.) Somewhat low.

Lowk (n.) See Louk.

Lowland (n.) Land which is low with respect to the neighboring country; a low or level country; -- opposed to highland.

Lowlander (n.) A native or inhabitant of the Lowlands, especially of the Lowlands of Scotland, as distinguished from Highlander.

Lowlihood (n.) Alt. of Lowlihead

Lowlihead (n.) A lowly state.

Lowlily (adv.) In a lowly place or manner; humbly.

Lowliness (n.) The state or quality of being lowly; humility; humbleness of mind.

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