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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A variant of loon.
  2. Calm; low and sheltered; still; serene; tranquil: as, a lown place.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Scotland peaceful, calm
  2. n. obsolete A low fellow.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete A low fellow.

Etymologies

  1. See loon. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Kitteh is wishin hiz lown wuz emo so it kan kut itslf.”

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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.”

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

  • “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.”

    Pericles, Prince of Tyre

  • “That sounded harmless enough; she settled lown to enjoy her dinner.”

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  • “She was hull-lown but I could see her tops'ls, sir.”

    Hornblower And The Hotspur

  • “Why," he exclaimed, in a lowered voice, "that lown tore your pretty shirtwaist!”

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  • “We should have both lord and lown if the peevish baggage would but give way to customers.”

    Act IV. Scene VI. Pericles, Prince of Tyre

  • “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.”

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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.”

    Life of Johnson

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