lowen

present singular third person lowens · participle present lowening · participle past lowened · past lowened

1. ambitransitiverareTo make or become low.

   And in the morning it will be foul weather to-day; for the sky is red and lowening.

   1898, The Far East: An Exponent of Japanese Thoughts and Affairs, page 272

   2 more examples

   […] 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