Lown

Kitteh is wishin hiz lown wuz emo so it kan kut itslf. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The usual figure of a Sky boy, is a lown with bare legs and feet, a dirty kilt, ragged coat and waistcoat, a bare head, and a stick in his hand, which, I suppose, is partly to help the lazy rogue to walk, partly to serve as a kind of a defensive weapon. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I would be unhappy; and I don't think I'll be loaning him the lown mower again. ❋ Unknown (2005)

We should have both lord and lown, if the peevish baggage would but give way to customers. ❋ Unknown (2004)

That sounded harmless enough; she settled lown to enjoy her dinner. ❋ Neels, Betty (1993)

She was hull-lown but I could see her tops'ls, sir. ❋ Forester, C. S. (1962)

"Why," he exclaimed, in a lowered voice, "that lown tore your pretty shirtwaist!" ❋ Joseph Hergesheimer (1917)

We should have both lord and lown if the peevish baggage would but give way to customers. ❋ Unknown (1914)

About the end o 'July there cam' a spell o 'weather, the like o't never was in that countryside; it was lown an' het an 'heartless; the herds couldnae win up the Black Hill, the bairns were ower weariet to play; an' yet it was gousty too, wi 'claps o' het wund that rummled in the glens, and bits o 'shouers that slockened naething. ❋ Joseph Lewis French (1897)

The usual figure of a Sky-boy, is a lown with bare legs and feet, a dirty kilt, ragged coat and waistcoat, a bare head, and a stick in his hand, which, I suppose, is partly to help the lazy rogue to walk, partly to serve as a kind of a defensive weapon. ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)

"'Blaw the wind ne'er so fast, it will lown at the last'" quoted Erica, smiling. ❋ Edna Lyall (1880)

About the end o 'July there cam' a spell o 'weather, the like o' 't never was in that countryside; it was lown an 'het an' heartless; the herds couldnae win up the Black Hill, the bairns were ower-weariet to play; an 'yet it was gousty too, wi' claps o 'het wund that rummled in the glens, and bits o' shouers that slockened naething. ❋ Various (1878)

Never have I known such a horror of fear as fell on me now, helpless and dumb, a sheep given over to the slaughter, in that dark chamber, which was wondrous lown, {26} alone with my deadly foe. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

About the end o 'July there cam' a spell o 'weather, the like o't never was in that country side; it was lown an' het an 'heartless; the herds couldnae win up the Black Hill, the bairns were ower weariet to play; an' yet it was gousty too, wi 'claps o' het wund that rumm'led in the glens, and bits o 'shouers that slockened naething. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

I'm thinkin it'll a 'turn intil a lown starry nicht, wi' the bonny man intil't. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

-- And noo she's back til her father, bricht and licht and bonny as the lown starry nicht! ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

Let them find a lown seat by the light o 'the sun, ❋ George Gilfillan (1845)

Blaw the wind ne'er sae fast, it will lown at the last. ❋ Alexander Hislop (1836)