alow

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So here's me aloft and you alow, and good luck to both, pal."

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  1. In or to a low place, or a lower part; below; down: opposed to aloft. Sometimes aloft he layd, sometimes alow, … So doubtfully, that hardly one could know Whether more wary were to give or ward the blow. Spenser, F. Q., VI. viii. 13. After doubling Point Pinos, we bore up, set studding-sails alow and aloft, and were walking off at the rate of eight or nine knots. R. H. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 97.
  2. Afire; in a flame. [Scots.]
  3. To gang alow to take fire, or be set on fire; blaze; be burned. That discreet man Cardinal Beaton is e'en to gang alowe this blessed day if we dinna stop it. Tennant.

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  • The work of Izumi Tarotakes its form as video, installation, and drawing characterized by the use of found objects and alow-tech, do-it-yourself aesthetic. —  SLAMXHYPE
  • Who can remaine, therfore vnpersuaded, to loue, alow, and honor the excellent Science of Arithmetike_? —  The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara
  • Out spreads the canvas--alow, aloft-boom-stretched, on both sides, with many a stun' sail; till like a hawk, with pinions poised, we shadow the sea with our sails, and reelingly cleave the brine But whence, and whither wend ye, mariners We sail from Ravavai, an isle in the sea, not very far northward from the tropic of Capricorn, nor very far westward from Pitcairn's island, where the mutineers of the Bounty settled. —  Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)
  • "He'll do, alow or aloft Going aloft at sea was the true epileptic's chief dread. —  The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
  • So here's me aloft and you alow, and good luck to both, pal." —  Black Bartlemy's Treasure
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  1. Middle English alow, alowe, alough, alogh, aloz; from a + low. Cf. below and ahigh.
  2. from a + low, fire: see low.
 

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