LOW

Definitions

1. 1. In a low position or manner; not aloft; not on high; near the ground.
2. 2. Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply; as, he sold his wheat low.
3. 3. In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.
4. 4. In time approaching our own. In that part of the world which was first inhabited, even as low down as Abraham's time, they wandered with their flocks and herds. Locke.
5. 5. With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently; as, to speak low. Addison. The . . . odorous wind Breathes low between the sunset and the moon. Tennyson.
6. 6. With a low musical pitch or tone. Can sing both high and low. Shak.
7. 7. In subjection, poverty, or disgrace; as, to be brought low by oppression, by want, or by vice. Spenser.
8. 8. In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; -- said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution; as, the moon runs low, that is, is comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian.