lown1
[loun]
- calm; quiet.
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Origin of lown1
1375–1425; late Middle English (Scots) lownen (v.), later lowne (adj.) < Old Norse logn calm (noun), lugna to calm
lown2
[loon]
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Examples from the Web for lown
Contemporary Examples
Doctors like Newman and Lown may be gaining a more prominent voice in the national conversation.
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May 26, 2012
Historical Examples
"'Blaw the wind ne'er so fast, it will lown at the last'" quoted Erica, smiling.
We TwoEdna Lyall
Let us descend, then, from that most inclement front, into the lown boundaries of the Holm.
No want of lown places there, in which the creatures could lie with wool or hair unruffled among surrounding storms.
The wind has died down, and through the lown midnight air I heard the Auld Kirk clock strike the hour of twelve.
Betty GrierJoseph Waugh
Because, like a lull at sea, or lown on land, it is felt to descend from Heaven on man's toilsome lot.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2John Wilson