loweredadj.

1648 E. Sherburne tr. Seneca Medea ii. i. 19 Now bring the Tack aboard; now fast His lower'd Yards, binde to the Mast.

1707 E. Smith Phædra & Hippolytus iii. 31 The suppliant Nations..with lower'd Sails Confess the Ocean's Queen.

1836 Gardener's Mag. May 248 The comparative results, even in the same house, after two months' trial, were in favour of the lowered vines.

1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss III. vi. xi. 167 A great tear fell from under her lowered eyelids.

1917 Pop. Mech. Dec. 897/2 The target men examine the lowered target carefully.

1960 J. F. Lehmann I am my Brother ii. i. 34 Leonard himself sat in modest silence, with lowered eyes.

2006 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 Nov. 6/1 She finally came to London and addressed the people under a lowered flag.

1730 J. Browne Short Rev. Pamphlets 35 The lowered Price of the Moydore.

1783 Polit. Mag. Mar. 209/2 The present state of credit and lowered value of lands.

1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 8 June (1939) 182 The affectionate care that used to be ready with lowerd voice and stealthy pace to smooth the pillow.

1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 63 A general lowered state of health among the population.

1922 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 30 471 High wages, reduced hours, lowered productivity, and canceled orders.

1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxxii. 831 It is stunted physically and mentally owing to its lowered metabolic rate.

1992 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 23 Aug. 6/2 The side effect was a lowered sex drive.

?1828 W. Berry Encycl. Heraldica I. sig. 3c3^v/2 Lowered, is said of ordinaries, abated from their common situation; as the chief may be lowered under another chief of concession, or augmentation, though it usually possesses the upper angles of the shield. The fesse and cheveron may likewise be lowered.

1857 Irish Q. Rev. 25 11 But instead of having the wings ascending, as the eagle of the Cæsars, it had the wings lowered.

1987 J. Martin Heraldry in Vatican xiv. 190 The armorial bearings of Leo XII,..‘l'aquila dal volo abbassato e coronata d'oro in campo azzurro’; ‘azure an eagle with its wings lowered and crowned gold’, can only be seen on his tomb.

1833 Penny Mag. Monthly Suppl. Oct. 421/1 This is effected by scooping out the wood like a shelving trench from the edge of the shadow, and afterwards engraving the hatched lines upon the lowered surface.

1839 W. A. Chatto Treat. Wood Engraving viii. 696 When lowered blocks are printed at a common press, it is necessary that [etc.].

1921 J. Pennell Graphic Arts 220 A wood engraving or a wood cut is made by putting ink on lines which project above the rest of the lowered block.

1943 R. Ruzicka Thomas Bewick 46 Two reproductions made with the aid of proofs pulled from the original block..will in a measure illustrate the uneven surface of a lowered engraving.

2008 R. Richardson Making of Mr. Gray's Anat. 294 The fine India paper accidentally picked up ink from lowered areas.

1836 J. Nicholson tr. G. H. A. Ewald Gram. Hebrew Lang. 214 These lowered vowels are still perfectly immutable.

1877 H. Sweet Handbk. Phonetics 12 Raised (e) and lowered (i) must generally both be assumed to represent the same half-way position.

1933 Amer. Speech 8 7/2 I did not detect the lowered pronunciation.

2012 R. Hickey in J. M. Hernández-Campoy & J. C. Conde-Silvestre Handbk. Hist. Sociolinguistics xxi. 396 After the Second World War this older form of speech was increasingly out of tune with contemporary usage, which was showing a lowered vowel in the region of /æ/.