6. With a low musical pitch or tone.

Can sing both high and low.

Shak.

7. In subjection, poverty, or disgrace; as, to be brought low by

oppression, by want, or by vice. Spenser.

8. (Astron.) In a path near the equator, so that the declination is

small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; -- said of

the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution; as, the

moon runs low, that is, is comparatively near the horizon when on or

near the meridian.

Low (?), v. t. To depress; to lower. [Obs.] Swift.

Low"bell` (?), n. [Low a flame + bell.] 1. A bell used in fowling at

night, to frighten birds, and, with a sudden light, to make them fly

into a net.

The fowler's lowbell robs the lark of sleep.

King.

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