lowing

• IPA^(key): /ˈləʊɪŋ/

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lowing

1. present participle and gerund of low

   The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes.

   • a. 1882, anonymous, "Away In a Manger"

     But little Lord Jesus, no crying he makes.

lowing (plural lowings)

1. The sound of something that lows.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 15:14:

     And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheepe in mine eares, and the lowing of the oxen which I heare?

   • 1629, John Milton, “On the Morning of Christs Nativity”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 11:

     Nor is Oſiris seen
     In Memphian Grove, or Green,
     Trampling the unſhower'd Graſſe with lowings loud:

   • 1918, William Henry Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago:

     […] the herd of four or five hundred cattle trotting homewards with loud lowings and bellowings […]

• glowin', owling