Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Calm; low and sheltered; still; serene; tranquil: as, a lown place.
- noun A variant of
loon .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A low fellow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A low fellow.
- adjective Scotland
peaceful ,calm
Etymologies
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Examples
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Kitteh is wishin hiz lown wuz emo so it kan kut itslf.
INVISIBLE LAWNMOWER - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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The usual figure of a Sky boy, is a lown with bare legs and feet, a dirty kilt, ragged coat and waistcoat, a bare head, and a stick in his hand, which, I suppose, is partly to help the lazy rogue to walk, partly to serve as a kind of a defensive weapon.
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I would be unhappy; and I don't think I'll be loaning him the lown mower again.
Archive 2005-08-01 2005
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I would be unhappy; and I don't think I'll be loaning him the lown mower again.
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We should have both lord and lown, if the peevish baggage would but give way to customers.
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That sounded harmless enough; she settled lown to enjoy her dinner.
The Course Of True Love Neels, Betty 1993
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She was hull-lown but I could see her tops'ls, sir.
Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962
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"Why," he exclaimed, in a lowered voice, "that lown tore your pretty shirtwaist!"
Mountain Blood A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917
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We should have both lord and lown if the peevish baggage would but give way to customers.
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About the end o 'July there cam' a spell o 'weather, the like o't never was in that countryside; it was lown an' het an 'heartless; the herds couldnae win up the Black Hill, the bairns were ower weariet to play; an' yet it was gousty too, wi 'claps o' het wund that rummled in the glens, and bits o 'shouers that slockened naething.
Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897
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