lowering

Meanings

1. present participle and gerund of lower

1. The act of something being lowered.
2. A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes lower.

1. Dark and menacing.
2. That lowers or frowns.
3. Lurking, skulking, menacing.

1. Alternative form of louring.

Etymology

c. 1600, "descend, sink, grow less or lower" (intransitive), from lower (adj.), comparative of low (adj.). Transitive meaning "let down, cause to descend" attested from 1650s. Related: Lowered; lowering. In the transitive sense "to cause to descend" the older verb was low. From Middle English lahghenn, (c. 1200), which continued in use into the 18c.