Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
lower . - noun Money.
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Examples
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Do not lowre our standards in international trade agreements.
Republicans Attack Dem Congressional Candidate For Not Backing Obama 2009
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They're holding his lowre back on him, so he was straight up, or nearly.
Nightside The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1993
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Where all the Roome coues slopne that we may tip the lowre, [11]
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer
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Whe_ [*] we haue tipt the lowre & fenc't away the duds [12]
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer
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_ What! stowe you bene cofe and cut benar whydds; and byng we to some vyle to nyp a bong, so shall we haue lowre for the bousing ken and when we byng back to the deuseauye, we wyll fylche some duddes of the ruffemans, or myll the ken for a lagge of dudes.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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For when ye mildly looke with louely hew, then is my soule with life and loue inspired: but when ye lowre, or looke on me askew then doe I die, as one with lightning fyred.
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Not lumb, but lowre enough, you know, to have him sure he'd draw my deck. "
Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996
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3751: The sky doth frowne, and lowre vpon our Army.
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2674: The heauens do lowre vpon you, for some ill:
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528: Why at our Iustice seem'st thou then to lowre?
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