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lowering clouds

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  • Lowering — Low er*ing, a. Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Lowering — Lower Low er, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lowered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lowering}.] [OE. lowren, luren; cf. D. loeren, LG. luren. G. lauern to lurk, to be on the watch, and E. leer, lurk.] 1. To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • lowering — loweringly, adv. /low euhr ing, loweur ing/, adj. 1. dark and threatening, as the sky, clouds, or weather; overcast; gloomy: lowering skies. 2. frowning or sullen, as the face or gaze; scowling; angry. Also, louring. [1300 50; ME louring. See… …   Universalium

  • lowering — /ˈlaʊərɪŋ / (say lowuhring) adjective 1. dark and threatening, as the sky, clouds, weather, etc. 2. frowning or sullen, as the face, gaze, etc. {lower2 + ing2} –loweringly, adverb …  

  • lowering — I noun 1. the act of causing to become less • Derivationally related forms: ↑lower • Hypernyms: ↑decrease, ↑diminution, ↑reduction, ↑step down • Hyponyms …   Useful english dictionary

  • In the clouds — Cloud Cloud (kloud), n. [Prob. fr. AS. cl[=u]d a rock or hillock, the application arising from the frequent resemblance of clouds to rocks or hillocks in the sky or air.] 1. A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • lower — 1 adjective 1 (only before noun) below something else, especially beneath something of the same type: Nina chewed her lower lip anxiously. | the lower limbs (=legs) 2 (only before noun) at or near the bottom of something: the lower slopes of the… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • Harold L. Ickes — Infobox US Cabinet official name=Harold LeClair Ickes order=32nd title=United States Secretary of the Interior president=Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry S. Truman term start=March 4, 1933 term end=February 15, 1946 predecessor=Ray Lyman Wilbur… …   Wikipedia

  • Kivett Hall — Infobox building building name = Kivett Hall caption = building type = Educational architectural style = structural system = location = Buies Creek, North Carolina owner = Campbell University current tenants = landlord = coordinates = start date …   Wikipedia

  • cyclone — /suy klohn/, n. 1. a large scale, atmospheric wind and pressure system characterized by low pressure at its center and by circular wind motion, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. Cf. anticyclone,… …   Universalium

  • extratropical cyclone — /ek streuh trop i keuhl, ek / any large scale, cyclonic storm that is not a tropical cyclone, esp. the common frontal cyclone of the middle and high latitudes. [1920 25; EXTRA + TROPICAL] * * * ▪ meteorology also called  wave cyclone,         a… …   Universalium

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