lowing

Verb (1)

low (third-person singular simple present lows, present participle lowing, simple past and past participle lowed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To lower; to make low.
   • I shall only say this, that all the other graces must low the sail to faith, and so it is faith must carry us through, being that last triumphing grace, […]1654 (edition of 1762), Andrew Gray, The Works of … Andrew Gray [Edited by R. Trail and J. Stirling], page 112

Verb (2)

low (third-person singular simple present lows, present participle lowing, simple past and past participle lowed)

1. (intransitive) To moo.
   • The cattle were lowing.

Verb (3)

low (third-person singular simple present lows, present participle lowing, simple past and past participle lowed)

1. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) To burn; to blaze.
   • Driest wood will eithest low,1724 (edition of 1788), Allan Ramsay, The Tea-Table Miscellany, page 23

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