Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Cloudy and dark; overcast.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Cloudy; threatening: said of weather.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Cloudy; gloomy; lowering
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
dark andgloomy ;threatening ;lowering
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Examples
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They were willing to show their liberal intent by binding themselves to run their trains only in rainy or "lowery" weather, or when the ground was damp.
The Rainy Day Railroad War Holman Day 1900
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December 19th, 2008 at 3: 48 am uhh, yall know that rev. joseph lowery, of the african american church, and who SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE, will be delivering the benediction after the swearing in right? this is a throwing a little line to the younger evangelicals that like warren stuff, but still keeping one of his earliest supporters (rev lowery) have an equally big spot.
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I try to get onto th joeks "Stop tainting the waste stream with pieces of wood and old underwear!" lowery a chewy malbec mattl Ctrl-V: the freedom to wear shoes whenever your pinky toes are not hooked up to transcutaneous electrodes miketempleton orange_botline skampy - AIM IM with zoestoe.
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Contact you dream? you listen? spoken word? rev. joseph lowery | no more
rev. joseph lowery | no more « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007
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Hokushi (1665-1718) « rev. joseph lowery | no more edith nash | marriage »
hokushi | the moon is on the pine « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007
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Report this comment to the moderators margaret e lowery Writes:
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I was driving in from Amman to Baghdad, bringing an armored car in to my colleague in Baghdad, and we were driving through the Sunni area, near Fallujah, when the vehicle was shot up by a lowery-load of armed men carrying Kalashnikovs and waving rocket propelled grenades at us.
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The day had now become cloudy, lowery, and it looked as if there might be snow.
The Financier 2004
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OK, sac steve steve: all system: all lowery: dalurw johnson: dalurw
Introduction to the Primos Operating System by Violence of The VOID Hackers 1989
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OK, sac steve steve: all system: all lowery: dalurw johnson: dalurw
Introduction to the Primos Operating System by Violence of The VOID Hackers 1989
bilby commented on the word lowery
Useful word, deserves revival.
February 20, 2019