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(lou), n. [ es, a celebration of the eucharist without music or other adjuncts: opposed to high celebration. See high. Low log i = Sw. ldga = Dan. lue, a fire, = OHG. Church. See Low-church, and Episcopal Church, under *loho, MHG. G. lohe = MLG. lo, lowe = OF ries. episcopal.—Low color. See color.—Low comedian, log a, a flame; akin to AS. lég, lig, > ME. leye, an actor of farcical comic parts.—Low Countries, the leie, ete., a fire (see lay8); from the root, *luh, Netherlands.—Low dawn. See dawn.—Low Dutch. See Dutch, 5.—Low embroidery, embroidery which is not in of light1, etc.: see light!.] Flame; fire; blaze. high relief or padded, and is without flies or applications. [Obsolete or prov. Eng. and Scotch. ] —Lower case. See case2, 6.— Lower Chalk, in geol., the name given to a member of the Chalk formation, dis- His ene flammet as the fire, or a fuerse low. Destruction of Troy (Q. E. T. §.), 1. 5582. tinguished by the absence of flints and by the superior hardne of the chalk, which is sometimes used for build- There sat a bottle in a bole ing-stone.—Lower criticism, culmination, house, etc. Beyont the ingle lowe. See the nouns.—Lower Empire, a name sometimes given Burns, The Weary Pund o’ Tow. to the Byzantine empire.—Lower greensand, in Eng. low‘ (lou), v. 7. [« ME. lowen, flame;