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There's a chance of more snow after dark Saturday when the low will be around 21 with a south wind between 13 and 15 miles an hour.

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  1. adjective Having little relative height; not high or tall.
  2. adjective Rising only slightly above surrounding surfaces.
  3. adjective Situated or placed below normal height: a low lighting fixture.
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  • Moreover the high and the low are here seen moving in free and familiar intercourse, without any apparent consciousness of their respective ranks: the humours and comicalities of the play keep running and frisking in among the serious parts, to their mutual advantage; the connection between them being of a kind to be felt, not described. —  Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I.
  • The smaller the fraction, the healthier the situation—what we call a low-high condition—and with proper evolution the technological factor ascends and the political factor descends. —  Analog February, 1971
  • In Billings, the low was about 44 degrees overnight, and a low of 42 was recorded Tuesday shortly before 6 a.m. —  billingsgazette.com
  • Tomorrow night the low will be around 48, with winds gusting as high as 20 mph, the NWS said.
  • So signing up for a target this low is a little bit like steering the Titanic straight for the iceberg, but with the engines running at three-quarter speed. —  newmatilda.com - Comments
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Etymologies (11)

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  1. Middle English loue, from Old Norse lāgr; see legh- in Indo-European roots.
  2. From Middle English lowen, to moo, from Old English hlōwan; see kelə-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English lowen, from Anglo-Saxon hlōwan = Dutch loeijen = Middle Low German loien, lugen = Old High German hlōjan, löwan, Middle High German luogen, lüewen, lüejen, lüen = Icelandic hlōa, bellow, low; prob. of imitative origin.
  2. from low, v.
  3. from Middle English lowe, lough, louh, loh, loze, lawe, lagh, lah (not in Anglo-Saxon, and prob. from Scandinavian); = OFries. lege, lech = Dutch laag = Middle Low German lēch, lēge = Middle Dutch laegh, leegh = Low German leg, lege, leech = Icelandic lāgr = Swedish lāg = Danish lav, low; literally ‘lying’ (low), from the verb, Anglo-Saxon licgan (preterit læg) (= Icelandic liggja, preterit plural lāgu, etc.), lie: see lie. Cf. law and log, from the same ult. source. Hence lower, below, etc.
  4. from Middle English lowe, louwe, loze, lahe (= Dutch laag = Danish lavt), adverb; from low, a.
  5. from Middle English lowen, lowen, loghen (= Icelandic lægja = Dutch laagen), make low, humble; from low, a. Cf. lower.
  6. Also dial. lough, law; from Middle English low, lowe, lawe, from Anglo-Saxon hlāw, hlæmacr;w, a hill, mound, = Old Saxon hlēo = Old High German hlēo, lēo, Middle High German lē = Gothic (Moesogothic) hlaiw, a mound (grave); perhaps = Latin clivus, a hill, slope: see clivous, acclivity, declivity.
  7. from low, n.
  8. from Middle English lowe, loghe, loʒhe, from Icelandic logi = Swedish låga = Danish lue, a fire, = Old High German *loho, Middle High German G. lohe = Middle Low German lo, lowe = OFries. loga, a flame; akin to Anglo-Saxon lēg, līg, later Middle English leye, leie, etc., a fire (see lay); from the root, *luh, of light, etc.: see light.
  9. from Middle English lowen, flame; from low, n.
 

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