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To the dear mistress of my love-sick mind.

Dryden.

2. Originating in, or expressive of, languishing love.

Where nightingales their love-sick ditty sing.

Dryden.

Love"-sick`ness, n. The state of being love-sick.

Love"some (?), a. [AS. lufsum.] Lovely. [Obs.]

Lov"ing (?), a. 1. Affectionate.

The fairest and most loving wife in Greece.

Tennyson.

2. Expressing love or kindness; as, loving words.

Lov"ing-kind"ness (?), n. Tender regard; mercy; favor. Ps. lxxxix. 33.

Lov"ing*ly, adv. With love; affectionately.

Lov"ing*ness, n. Affection; kind regard.

The only two bands of good will, loveliness and lovingness.

Sir. P. Sidney.

Lov"yer (?), n. A lover. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Low (?), obs. strong imp. of Laugh. Chaucer.

Low (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lowed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Lowing.] [OE. lowen, AS. hl&?;wan; akin to D. loeijen, OHG. hl&?;jan, hluojan.] To make the calling sound of cows and other bovine animals; to moo.

The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.

Gray.

Low, n. The calling sound ordinarily made by cows and other bovine animals.

Talking voices and the law of herds.

Wordsworth.

Low, n. [AS. hlw; akin to Goth. hlaiw a grave, hlains a hill, and to E. lean to incline.] A hill; a mound; a grave. [Obs. except in place names.] Skeat.

Low (?), n. [Icel. log, logi; akin to E. light, n.] Fire; a flame; a light. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

Low, v. i. To burn; to blaze. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Burns.

Low (?), a. [Compar. Lower (?); superl. Lowest.] [OE. low, louh, lah, Icel. lgr; akin to Sw. låg, Dan. lav, D. laag, and E. lie. See Lie to be prostrate.]