lower

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Hire; reward.
• noun A frown; scowl; frowning; sullenness.
• noun Cloudiness; gloominess.
• To frown; scowl; look sullen; watch in sullen silence.
• To appear dark or gloomy; be clouded; threaten a storm.
• To look bad; appear in bad condition.
• To lurk; crouch; skulk.
• To strike, as a clock, with a low prolonged sound; toll the curfew.
• To cause to descend; let down; take or bring down: as, to lower the sail of a ship; to lower cargo into the hold.
• To reduce or bring down, as in height, amount, value, estimation, condition, degree, etc.; make low or lower: as, to lower a wall (by removing a part of the top); to lower the water in a canal (by allowing some to run off); to lower the temperature of a room or the quality of goods; to lower the point of a spear or the muzzle of a gun; to lower prices or the rate of interest.
• To bring down in spirit; humble; humiliate: as, to lower one's pride; to lower one in the estimation of others.
• In relief-engraving
• to scrape or cut away, as the surface of a block, in such manner as to leave it highest in the middle; or
• to depress, as any part of the surface which it is desired shall print lightly from being exposed to a diminished pressure.
• In music, to change from a high to a low pitch; specifically, in musical notation, to depress; flat: said of changing the significance of a staff-degree or of a note on such a degree by attaching a flat to it either in the signature or as an accidental.
• To fall; sink; grow less; become lower in any way.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Compar. of low, a.
• intransitive verb To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
• intransitive verb To frown; to look sullen.
• transitive verb To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; ; sometimes, to pull down.
• transitive verb To reduce the height of
• transitive verb To depress as to direction; ; to make less elevated as to object.
• transitive verb To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
• transitive verb To bring down; to humble.
• transitive verb To reduce in value, amount, etc.
• intransitive verb To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease.
• noun Cloudiness; gloominess.
• noun A frowning; sullenness.
• adjective relating to small or noncapital letters which were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective comparative form of low: more low
• adverb comparative form of low: more low
• verb transitive To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
• verb transitive to pull down
• verb transitive To reduce the height of
• verb transitive To depress as to direction
• verb transitive To make less elevated
• verb transitive To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
• verb transitive To bring down; to humble
• verb reflexive (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
• verb transitive To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
• verb intransitive To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
• verb intransitive To decrease in value, amount, etc.
• verb intransitive To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
• verb intransitive To frown; to look sullen.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb cause to drop or sink
• verb look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval
• verb set lower
• verb move something or somebody to a lower position
• verb make lower or quieter
• noun the lower of two berths