[f. LOW v.4] The action of lowing; the ordinary sound uttered by an ox or cow.
1549. Compl. Scot., vi. 39. The nolt maid noyis vitht mony loud lou.
1599. Shaks., Much Ado, V. iv. 48. Bull Ioue, sir, had an amiable low.
1726–46. Thomson, Winter, 85. The cattle from the untasted fields return, And ask with meaning low their wonted stalls.
1821. Clare, Vill. Minstr., I. 111. On list’ning ears so sweet Fall the mellow low and bleat.
1861. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxf., xxxvii. (1889), 360. A comfortable low came at intervals from the cattle, revelling in the abundant herbage.
Low sb.6 See LOOR (= foot-rot in cattle).
