lowe
See also: Lowe and Löwe
English
Noun
lowe (plural lowes)
- Alternative form of low ("flame").
- 1786, Burns, Robert, The Vision:
- An' by my ingle-lowe I saw, / Now bleezin' bright,
- 1884, Richard Francis Burton, The lyricks [of] Camoens, translation of original by Luís de Camões, page 78:
- Love is a living Lowe that lurking burneth.
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Anagrams
- Loew, owel, wole
Lindu
Noun
lowe
- eagle
Middle English
Verb
lowe
- Alternative form of loven (“to praise”)
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English lowe, loghe, from Old Norse logi (“fire, flame, sword”), from Proto-Germanic *lugô (“flame, blaze”).
Noun
lowe (plural lowes)
- flame
- Is my brain no het aneugh, but ye maun set lowe to it, and burn it? (Alexander Leighton, ‘The House in Bell's Wynd’, Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland)
- 1786, Burns, Robert, The Vision:
- An' by my ingle-lowe I saw, / Now bleezin' bright,
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Sranan Tongo
Etymology
From English run away.
Verb
lowe
- to flee, to run away, to escape
Derived terms
- lowe nengre