lowe
verb (used without object)
variant of low.
lowe
American
[loh]
/ loʊ /
verb (used without object)
British Dialect.
lowed,
lowing
Löwe
British
/ ˈløːvə /
noun
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He setten hem dun bi þe wawe, Riche and pouere, heye and lowe, They sit in judgment.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
Now not too talle, nor yet too lowe; e’re be ye passinge faire.
From Marjorie Dean College Freshman by Pauline Lester
The xviith daie of Maie, at xii. of ye clock at noon, being lowe water, Mrs. Barbara Mitford died, and was buried the xviiith daie of Maie, at ix. of the clocke.
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
A brooch she baar up-on hir lowe coler, As brood as is the bos of a bocler.
From Chaucer and His Times by Grace E. Hadow
But, however it happened, about midnight we baith awakened mair nor half scomfisht, and there was the roof in a bright lowe aboon our heads.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various
Katy Löwe runs one of them from Halberstadt, a town that lies at the northern foothills of Saxony-Anhalt's Harz Mountains, 120 miles west of Berlin.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Huddersfield, who got four points from their last two matches, will be without Pet Shop Boy Chris Löwe and Mathias Jørgensen while Wolves have only lost Jonny, to invoke Hawkwind.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 25, 2018
Chris Löwe and Williams then scored, too, before Ali al-Habsi saved from Hefele.
From The Guardian ● May 29, 2017
An additional volume began to appear in 1794, at Berlin and Breslau, under the editorship of Löwe and Wolfsohn, and was completed in 1797.
From The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by Nahum Slouschz
Perhaps," said he, "we have done Mr. Löwe an injustice, after all.
From John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman
“People see me on the court and they’re like,” he said, then lowed his voice to a whisper, “’Oh, my God!
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
The SCA later lowed its demand to $550m, but the owners and insurers reportedly offered to pay $150m.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2021
They fed us lentils cooked in onion and garlic and thin milk from the water buffalo that lowed outside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2020
Charlie’s mother fol- lowed his voice to the kitchen, where she let him know that she and Charlie were home playing cards.
From MSNBC ● Oct. 22, 2014
When the cow lowed again, closer yet, they halted.
From "The Fighting Ground" by Avi
Entering Sphere, the escalators are tinted sepia and the soundscape hums with birdsong and lowing cattle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025
Alsop took a painterly approach to Mahler’s many details — birdsong and bells, dewdrop harps, the lowing moo of a tuba.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2023
You can hear a gentle lowing of cows.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2022
Behind us, the skyline of Atlanta hidden by the photographer’s backdrop — a lush pasture, green, full of soft-eyed cows lowing, a chant that sounds like no, no.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2018
But long before the sound of their lowing and the sight of their preening, the building was leased to a Hungarian baker, modestly famous for his brioche and poppy-seed rolls.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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