lowing

English

Verb

lowing

1. present participle of low

   The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes.

   But little Lord Jesus, no crying he makes. - Away In a Manger

Noun

lowing (plural lowings)

1. The sound of something that lows.
   • John Milton

     Nor is Osiris seen
     In Memphian grove or green,
     Trampling the unshowered grass with lowings loud.

   • 1918, William Henry Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago:

     […] the herd of four or five hundred cattle trotting homewards with loud lowings and bellowings […]

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 15:14:

     And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

Anagrams

• glowin', owling