lowenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -əʊɪn

動詞

lowen (三人称単数 現在形 lowens, 現在分詞 lowening, 過去形および過去分詞形 lowened)

1. (rare, transitive, intransitive) To make or become low.
   • 1815, In the King's Bench, page 28:

     […] 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; […]

   • 1894, David Simpson Graham, The New Werther, Or The Wealsman's Wrath, page 196:

     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?

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

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

アナグラム

• Enlow, Olwen, lowne, nowel