lowe
verb (used without object)
variant of low.
lowe
American
[loh]
/ loʊ /
verb (used without object)
British Dialect.
lowed,
lowing
Löwe
British
/ ˈløːvə /
noun
Example Sentences
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Is my brain no het aneugh, but ye maun set lowe to it, and burn it?
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Leighton, Alexander
Insert a comma after thret, and destroy that after lowe.
From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)
Sir," quoth the dwarffe, and louted lowe, "Behold that hend Soldain!
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
Now these two youths were they who chiefly set Scotland in a lowe at this time, when Lauderdale had so nearly trampled out the red cinders of the fire of Presbytery.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Will gied a cuddie’s roar— Hugh in a lowe, wi’ door in hand, Said he would them he-haw, When Jock like ony sheep did bae, And Pate like cock did craw.
From Splores of a Halloween, Twenty Years Ago by Dick, Alexander
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