Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The ordinary bellowing cry of cattle.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of low.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The calling sound made by cows and other bovine animals.
Examples
“1 756, Of this piece, the fol - lowing, which is part of a tpeedi of Minerva to Jupiter, will a£fbr4”
Internet Archive: Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse:
“lowing' that to be the truth, did you encounter anything in this here country to produce such an effeck?”
“It is a kind of lowing, but shriller, and not near so loud as that of the European Ox. To this, however, the Gayal approaches much nearer than it does to the Buffalo. ”
“Guan Ⅳ couple had been killed that took the V. Family to one disaster after another more, there was standing on overlord position of Double Star, hence stepped into long long time lowing age, the quiet surface of lake bit by bit translate hidden surges.”
“Going out for a walk in the middle of the day can be very helpful in lowing cortisol levels and helping you feel energized.”
“These may be the sounds of the shires, as reassuring to many English as Gray's curfew tolling the knell of parting day or his lowing herd winding slowly o'er the lea.”
The Guardian: Who can lay a glove on Alex Salmond? | Kevin McKenna
“I understood that there were animals around, even when I did not know what it meant when the song said, "The cattle are lowing; the poor baby wakes...”
The Huffington Post: The Rev. Jacqueline J. Lewis, Ph.D.: The Gift Of Love
“They weren't too far from the farm; he could hear the somber lowing of the cows just over the next stretch of road.”
“You will be so drained of spirit, so lulled into lethargy, as to be as lowing cattle content to chew your cuds even as the blade slices through your necks.”
Simon & Schuster: Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
“Clearly she saw the long wagon-train, the lean, gaunt men who walked before, the youths goading the lowing oxen that fell and were goaded to their feet to fall again.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lowing’.
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Winter Solstice
Words that have something to do with the holidays that fall on or near the Winter Solstice
Yule, Yule-log, holly, yew, bay, bay-leaf, bayberry, Holly King, Oak King, mistletoe, Christmas tree, star in the East and 150 more...
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charming words sung by Joanna Newsom
lateen, catenaries, dirigibles, taciturn, exhume, vestal, bedraggled, poetaster, keening, embarcadero, slack-jawed, straggly and 82 more...
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mrcow's Words
vertiginous, apocryphal, eponymous, immolate, judicious, intractable, vaunted, cogent, conceit, defenestrate, turgid, disabuse and 37 more...
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This Ys a List
A collection of particularly evocative or unusual words from Joanna Newsom's Album 'Ys'. Just to test Wordie.
mica, pleiades, yawning, peonies, hydrocephalitic, dolorous, asterisms, spelunking, sloughed, diluvian, balletic, gibbering and 19 more...
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Joanna Newsom lyrics
meadowlark, chim-choo-ree, felten, mud-cloud, mica-spangled, lee, peonies, hydrocephalitic, rangily, dolorous, asterisms, grass-sick and 45 more...
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