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Lowing

Lowing \Low"ing\, n. The calling sound made by cows and other bovine animals.

Lowing

Low \Low\ (l[=o]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lowed (l[=o]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Lowing.] [OE. lowen, AS. hl[=o]wan; akin to D. loeijen, OHG. hl[=o]jan, hluojan.] To make the calling sound of cows and other bovine animals; to moo.

The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the le


  1. --Gray.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lowing

early 13c., verbal noun from low (v.).

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lowing

n. The sound of something that lows. vb. (present participle of low English)

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Lowing

Lowing is a Scottish surname, and may refer to:

  • Alan Lowing (born 1988), Scottish footballer
  • David Lowing (born 1983), Scottish footballer

Usage examples of "lowing".

The wind is blowing harder now, cooing and lowing all around the house.

The noises that ascended through the pallid coverlid were perturbed lowings, mingled with human voices in sharps and flats, and the bark of a dog.

In places, herds of gaur, bur, dang, and arne milled about in mud pools up to their thick necks, mooing and lowing at the passing humans.

Or lowing of the kine, Grows nearer in the midnight The rushing of the Rhine.

And at the same time the bleating of sheep came to the heroes through the mist and the lowing of kine, near at hand, smote their ears.

A while later Skafloc heard, far and weird in the still spaces around him, the lowing of a lur horn.

The sun was almost directly overhead before Webb heard the lowing of moving cattle.

The mechanisms or thaumaturgy of the helmet turned the words into lowing.

The rumors came into the fertile uplands where stately cities rose above blue lakes and rivers: the rumors marched along the broad white roads thronged with ox-wains, with lowing herds, with rich merchants, knights in steel, archers and priests.

Fandorin began lowing with his mouth full and swallowed an unchewed piece of a cream cone, but Brilling relented.

Chapter 4 An extraordinary scene between Sophia and her aunt The lowing heifer and the bleating ewe, in herds and flocks, may ramble safe and unregarded through the pastures.

Whatever they did brought the pain on, and the kid started a cowlike lowing that seemed to inhabit all the air in the common area.

The lowing of the kine on the way signified the difficult conversion of the lusts of evil of the natural man into good affections.

Between the puny pops of Roman candles and the hisses of launching rockets, we could hear the vachettes bitterly lowing from within their nearby trailer.

Duckbills were hurled into the air, huge adults writhing, their lowing lost in the sudden fury.