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Low Countries   /loʊ kˈəntriz/   Listen
adjective
Low  adj.  (compar. lower; superl. lowest)  
1.
Occupying an inferior position or place; not high or elevated; depressed in comparison with something else; as, low ground; a low flight.
2.
Not rising to the usual height; as, a man of low stature; a low fence.
3.
Near the horizon; as, the sun is low at four o'clock in winter, and six in summer.
4.
Sunk to the farthest ebb of the tide; as, low tide.
5.
Beneath the usual or remunerative rate or amount, or the ordinary value; moderate; cheap; as, the low price of corn; low wages.
6.
Not loud; as, a low voice; a low sound.
7.
(Mus.) Depressed in the scale of sounds; grave; as, a low pitch; a low note.
8.
(Phon.) Made, as a vowel, with a low position of part of the tongue in relation to the palate.
9.
Near, or not very distant from, the equator; as, in the low northern latitudes.
10.
Numerically small; as, a low number.
11.
Wanting strength or animation; depressed; dejected; as, low spirits; low in spirits.
12.
Depressed in condition; humble in rank; as, men of low condition; the lower classes. "Why but to keep ye low and ignorant?"
13.
Mean; vulgar; base; dishonorable; as, a person of low mind; a low trick or stratagem.
14.
Not elevated or sublime; not exalted in thought or diction; as, a low comparison. "In comparison of these divine writers, the noblest wits of the heathen world are low and dull."
15.
Submissive; humble. "Low reverence."
16.
Deficient in vital energy; feeble; weak; as, a low pulse; made low by sickness.
17.
Moderate; not intense; not inflammatory; as, low heat; a low temperature; a low fever.
18.
Smaller than is reasonable or probable; as, a low estimate.
19.
Not rich, high seasoned, or nourishing; plain; simple; as, a low diet. Note: Low is often used in the formation of compounds which require no special explanation; as, low-arched, low-browed, low-crowned, low-heeled, low-lying, low-priced, low-roofed, low-toned, low-voiced, and the like.
Low Church. See High Church, under High.
Low Countries, the Netherlands.
Low German, Low Latin, etc. See under German, Latin, etc.
Low life, humble life.
Low milling, a process of making flour from grain by a single grinding and by siftings.
Low relief. See Bas-relief.
Low side window (Arch.), a peculiar form of window common in mediaeval churches, and of uncertain use. Windows of this sort are narrow, near the ground, and out of the line of the windows, and in many different situations in the building.
Low spirits, despondency.
Low steam, steam having a low pressure.
Low steel, steel which contains only a small proportion of carbon, and can not be hardened greatly by sudden cooling.
Low Sunday, the Sunday next after Easter; popularly so called.
Low tide, the farthest ebb of the tide; the tide at its lowest point; low water.
Low water.
(a)
The lowest point of the ebb tide; a low stage of the in a river, lake, etc.
(b)
(Steam Boiler) The condition of an insufficient quantity of water in the boiler.
Low water alarm or Low water indicator (Steam Boiler), a contrivance of various forms attached to a boiler for giving warning when the water is low.
Low water mark, that part of the shore to which the waters recede when the tide is the lowest.
Low wine, a liquor containing about 20 percent of alcohol, produced by the first distillation of wash; the first run of the still; often in the plural.





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"Low countries" Quotes from Famous Books



... his easy conquest of Flanders, resolved to seize upon Holland, and then proceed to annex to France the whole of the Low Countries. The Dutch, a maritime people, though powerful at sea, had but a feeble land force. Holland was in alliance with England. The first object of Louis was to dissolve ...
— Louis XIV., Makers of History Series • John S. C. Abbott
... hole in a sheet of limestone rock, near the salt watercourse, which did not contain above a pint or two. The natives, however, appeared to come to this occasionally for their supply; similar holes enabling them frequently to remain out in the low countries long after the rain has fallen. After seeing the party move on, with the native boy to act as guide through the scrub, I rode in advance to search for water at the hill marked by Flinders as Bluff Mount, and named by Colonel Gawler, Mount Hill. This isolated elevation ...
— Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central • Edward John Eyre
... Papers relating to the Proceedings of the Earl of Leicester in the Low Countries, in the years 1585 and 1586, derived from a MS. placed at the disposal of the Society by Frederick Ouvry, Esq. and other sources. To be edited ...
— The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee - And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts • John Dee
... really great commercial tributary of the Seine. There is a mighty flow of commerce which ascends and descends the bosom of the Oise, extending even to the Low Countries and the German Ocean, through the Sambre ...
— The Automobilist Abroad • M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
... exercise would teach them, the practices of war. The high estimation then placed upon the military character might be seen in the lofty port of each individual member of the company. Some of them, indeed, by their services in the Low Countries and on other fields of European warfare, had fairly won their title to assume the name and pomp of soldiership. The entire array, moreover, clad in burnished steel, and with plumage nodding over their bright morions, ...
— The Scarlet Letter • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... discerned the Republic in the Reformation; they desired to establish throughout Europe the government of the United Provinces, which ended by triumphing over the greatest Power of those times,—Spain, under Philip the Second, represented in the Low Countries by the Duke of Alba. Jean Hotoman was then meditating his famous book, in which this project is put forth,—a book which spread throughout France the leaven of these ideas, which were stirred up anew by the Ligue, repressed by Richelieu, then by Louis XIV., always protected ...
— Catherine de' Medici • Honore de Balzac
... English readers, we may mention two or three others which we have been for some time intending to bring under the notice of those who know how much light may be thrown upon our early language and literature by a study of the contemporary literature of the Low Countries. The first is, Denkmaeler Niederdeutscher Sprache und Literatur von Dr. Albert Hoefer, Erstes Banchen, which contains the highly curious Low German Whitson play called Claws Bur. The next is a larger, more elaborately edited, and from its introduction and extensive notes and various ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 56, November 23, 1850 • Various


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