(lō) adjective
1. Having relatively little upward extension; not high or tall.
2. Having relatively little elevation; raised only slightly above a recognized level: a low bridge; near the horizon: a low moon.
3. Situated below a recognized level; deep; depressed.
4. Having less than the normal or regular height, or less height than something taken as a standard; descending from the usual level.
5. Cut so as to expose the neck; décolleté.
6. Of sounds having depth of pitch; deep; also, having little volume or strength; soft.
7. Being less than the usual rate, amount, or reckoning; scant: low wages or interest.
8. Being little in degree, number, grade, station, quality, character, etc.; humble; moderate.
9. Being below the proper standard in refinement, moral character, principle, or condition; lacking pride, principle, force, dignity, or worth; vulgar; weak: low spirits; low standards of morality.
10. Dead; prostrate: He lies low.
11. Phonet. Pronounced with the tongue low and flat; open: said of vowels: opposed to high.
12. Little advanced in civilization or organic evolution.
13. Badly nourished; lacking in vigor; also, not nourishing; plain: a low diet.
14. Mech. Giving the least speed: low gear.
15. Geog. Pertaining to latitudes near the equator.
16. Eccl. a Pertaining to broad evangelical doctrine. b Denoting a service shorn of elaborate ritual: a low mass.
17. Bot. Growing close to the ground: a low herb. See synonyms under BASE, COMMON, HUMBLE, VULGAR.
—adverb
1. In a low way; in or to a low position; not on high.
2. At a low price; cheap.
3. In a humble rank or degraded condition.
4. So as not to be loud in sound; softly; also, at a low pitch.
5. In such a path that the declination or the altitude is small; near the equator or the horizon.
—to lie low
1. To be dead or prostrate.
2. To be or remain in hiding.
3. To hold one's tongue till the proper moment; wait.
—noun
1. A low area.
2. The first gear or speed of an automobile: Put it in low. [OE lah <ON lagr]
—low′·ness noun

(lō) noun
The moo or bellow of cattle: also low′ing.
—v.i. To bellow, as cattle; moo.
—v.t. To utter by lowing. [OE hlowan]

(lō) noun Scot.
A glowing fire; blaze. Also lowe.

(lō), David,
1891–1963, English cartoonist.