Lower

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Compar. of Low, ·adj.

II. Lower ·noun Cloudiness; gloominess.

III. Lower ·noun A frowning; sullenness.

IV. Lower ·vi To Frown; to look sullen.

V. Lower ·adj To bring down; to Humble; as, to lower one's pride.

VI. Lower ·adj To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret.

VII. Lower ·adj To reduce in value, amount, ·etc. ; as, to lower the price of goods, the rate of interest, ·etc.

VIII. Lower ·adj To depress as to direction; as, to lower the aim of a gun; to make less elevated as to object; as, to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes.

IX. Lower ·adj To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, ·etc., of; as, to lower the temperature of anything; to lower one's vitality; to lower distilled liquors.

X. Lower ·vi To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.

XI. Lower ·adj To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag.

XII. Lower ·vi To Fall; to Sink; to grow less; to Diminish; to Decrease; as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose.

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