4. In time approaching our own.

In that part of the world which was first inhabited, even as low

down as Abraham's time, they wandered with their flocks and herds.

Locke.

5. With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently; as, to speak low.

Addison.

The . . . odorous wind Breathes low between the sunset and the

moon.

Tennyson.

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