lowen

Verb

lowen (third-person singular simple present lowens, present participle lowening, simple past and past participle lowened)

1. (ambitransitive, rare) To make or become low.
   • […] and a wide ware or float can be put down in lieu thereof, of the same height as the said water gates or floats when lowened, and of the exact width and other dimensions as the present float at Wangford mill, and in the same manner as the float at Wangford mill; […]1815, In the King's Bench, page 28
   • Must I be lowened from the clouds dazzling
     Olympus' heights unto the apex point
     Which man nor scales, Joveward, save when we fill
     His soul on wing with swiftly-thinning air,
     Wherein gross mortal parts retard the rise?1894, David Simpson Graham, The New Werther, Or The Wealsman's Wrath, page 196