Index of English words, starting with "lo"

(1) - 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.

(1) - Lower (n.) A frowning; sullenness.
(2) - Lower (n.) Cloudiness; gloominess.
(3) - Lower (v. i.) To frown; to look sullen.
(4) - 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.
(5) - Lower (v. i.) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease; as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose.
(6) - Lower (a.) To reduce in value, amount, etc. ; as, to lower the price of goods, the rate of interest, etc.
(7) - Lower (a.) To bring down; to humble; as, to lower one's pride.
(8) - 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.
(9) - 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.
(10) - Lower (a.) To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret.
(11) - 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.
(12) - Lower (a.) Compar. of Low, a.

(1) - 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.