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LOW, a.
1. Not high or elevated depressed below any given surface or place. Low ground or land, is land below the common level. Low is opposed to high, and both are relative terms. That which is low with respect to one thing, may be high with respect to another. A low house would be a high fence. A low flight for an eagle, would be a high flight for a partridge.
2. Not rising to the usual height as a man of low stature.
3. Declining near the horizon. The sun is low at four o'clock in winter, and at six in summer.
4. Deep descending far below the adjacent ground as a low valley.
The lowest bottom shook of Erebus.
5. Sunk to the natural level of the ocean by the retiring of the tide as low water.
6. Below the usual rate or amount, or below the ordinary value as a low price of corn low wages.
7. Not high or loud as a low voice.
8. Grave depressed in the scale of sounds as a low note.
9. Near or not very distant from the equator as a low latitude. We say, the low southern latitudes the high northern latitudes.
10. Late in time modern as the lower empire.
11. Dejected depressed in vigor wanting strength or animation as low spirits low in spirits. His courage is low.
12. Depressed in condition in a humble state.
Why but to keep you low and ignorant?
13. Humble in rank in a mean condition as men of high and low condition the lower walks of life a low class of people.
14. Mean abject groveling base as a person of low mind.
15. Dishonorable mean as a low trick or stratagem.
16. Not elevated or sublime not exalted in thought or diction as a low comparison a low metaphor low language.
In comparison of these divine writers, the noblest wits of the heathen world are low and dull.
17. Vulgar common as a low education.
18. Submissive humble reverent.
And pay their fealty with low subjection.
But first low reverence done.
19. Weak exhausted of vital energy. His disease has brought him very low.
20. Feeble weak without force as a low pulse.
21. Moderate not inflammatory as a low fever.
22. Moderate not intense as a low heat a low temperature.
23. Impoverished in reduced circumstances. The rich are often reduced to a low condition.
24. Moderate as a low calculation or estimate.
25. Plain simple not rich, high seasoned or nourishing as a low diet.
LOW, adv.
1. Not aloft not on high often in composition as low-brow'd rocks.
2. Under the usual price at a moderate price. He sold his wheat low.
3. Near the ground as, the bird flies very low.
4. In a mean condition in composition as a low-born fellow a low-born lass.
5. In time approaching our own.
In the part of the world which was first inhabited, even as low down as Abraham's time, they wandered with their flocks and herds.
6. With a depressed voice not loudly as, speak low.
7. In a state of subjection, poverty or disgrace as, to be brought low by oppression, by want or by vice.
LOW, To sink to depress. Not used.
LOW, L. lugeo, to weep, the sense of which is, to cry out.
To bellow, as an ox or cow.
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Low'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/l/low.html.
Entry for 'Low'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/l/low.html.
