Definition of lowering

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Lowering (a.) Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky..

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Drop :: Drop (n.) Whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated position; also, a contrivance for lowering something.
Lighten :: Lighten (v. i.) To grow lighter; to become less dark or lowering; to brighten; to clear, as the sky..
Floricultural :: Floricultural (a.) Pertaining to the cultivation of flowering plants.
Accrescent :: Accrescent (a.) Growing larger after flowering.
Loweringly :: Loweringly (adv.) In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom.
Oospere :: Oospere (n.) An analogous mass of protoplasm in the ovule of a flowering plant; an embryonic vesicle.
Utricularia :: Utricularia (n.) A genus of aquatic flowering plants, in which the submersed leaves bear many little utricles, or ascidia. See Ascidium,.
Cineraria :: Cineraria (n.) A Linnaean genus of free-flowering composite plants, mostly from South Africa. Several species are cultivated for ornament..
Polygala :: Polygala (n.) A genus of bitter herbs or shrubs having eight stamens and a two-celled ovary (as the Seneca snakeroot, the flowering wintergreen, etc.); milkwort..
Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (n.) A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out..
Aaron's Rod :: Aaron's rod () A plant with a tall flowering stem; esp. the great mullein, or hag-taper, and the golden-rod..
Shed :: Shed (n.) The passageway between the threads of the warp through which the shuttle is thrown, having a sloping top and bottom made by raising and lowering the alternate threads..
Bulbel :: Bulbel (n.) A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants.
Primrose :: Primrose (a.) An early flowering plant of the genus Primula (P. vulgaris) closely allied to the cowslip. There are several varieties, as the white-, the red-, the yellow-flowered, etc. Formerly called also primerole, primerolles..
Thrift :: Thrift (n.) One of several species of flowering plants of the genera Statice and Armeria.
Zauschneria :: Zauschneria (n.) A genus of flowering plants. Zauschneria Californica is a suffrutescent perennial, with showy red flowers much resembling those of the garden fuchsia..
Lowering :: Lowering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lowe.
Fruit :: Fruit (v. t.) The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it..
Mannite :: Mannite (n.) A white crystalline substance of a sweet taste obtained from a so-called manna, the dried sap of the flowering ash (Fraxinus ornus); -- called also mannitol, and hydroxy hexane. Cf. Dulcite..
Flowering :: Flowering (n.) The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification..
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