- Low
- Low Low, adv.
1. In a low position or manner; not aloft; not on high; near
the ground.
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2. Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply; as, he sold his wheat low. [1913 Webster]
3. In a low or mean condition; humbly; meanly. [1913 Webster]
4. In time approaching our own. [1913 Webster]
In that part of the world which was first inhabited, even as low down as Abraham's time, they wandered with their flocks and herds. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
5. With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently; as, to speak low. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
The . . . odorous wind Breathes low between the sunset and the moon. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
6. With a low musical pitch or tone. [1913 Webster]
Can sing both high and low. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
7. In subjection, poverty, or disgrace; as, to be brought low by oppression, by want, or by vice. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
8. (Astron.) 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. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
