Definition of lowering

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

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Beetle-browed :: Beetle-browed () Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen..
Disparagement :: Disparagement (n.) Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation.
Polyanthus :: Polyanthus (n.) The oxlip. So called because the peduncle bears a many-flowered umbel. See Oxlip. (b) A bulbous flowering plant of the genus Narcissus (N. Tazetta, or N. polyanthus of some authors). See Illust. of Narcissus..
Flossification :: Flossification (n.) A flowering; florification.
Loweringly :: Loweringly (adv.) In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom.
Fruit :: Fruit (v. t.) The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it..
Trip :: Trip (v. t.) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
Phaenogamous :: Phaenogamous (a.) Having true flowers with with distinct floral organs; flowering.
Herb :: Herb (n.) A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering..
Proembryo :: Proembryo (n.) The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo..
Floriculture :: Floriculture (n.) The cultivation of flowering plants.
Accrescent :: Accrescent (a.) Growing larger after flowering.
Aaron's Rod :: Aaron's rod () A plant with a tall flowering stem; esp. the great mullein, or hag-taper, and the golden-rod..
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..
Saprophyte :: Saprophyte (n.) Any plant growing on decayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe..
Ovary :: Ovary (n.) That part of the pistil which contains the seed, and in most flowering plants develops into the fruit. See Illust. of Flower..
Glowering :: Glowering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glowe.
Rhizocarpous :: Rhizocarpous (a.) Having perennial rootstocks or bulbs, but annual flowering stems; -- said of all perennial herbs..
Lily :: Lily (n.) A name given to handsome flowering plants of several genera, having some resemblance in color or form to a true lily, as Pancratium, Crinum, Amaryllis, Nerine, etc..
Andromeda :: Andromeda (n.) A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water..
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