lowe

See also: Lowe and Löwe

English

Noun

lowe (plural lowes)

1. Alternative form of low ("flame").
   • 1786, Robert Burns, 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.

Anagrams

• Loew, owel, wole

Lindu

Noun

lowe

1. eagle

Middle English

Verb

lowe

1. 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)

1. 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, Robert Burns, The Vision:

     An' by my ingle-lowe I saw, / Now bleezin' bright,

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English run away.

Verb

lowe

1. to flee, to run away, to escape

Derived terms

• lowenengre