Obs. Forms: 4–5 lower(e, 6 looer. [ad. OF. louier reward.] Reward, guerdon, recompense.
c. 1330. Arth. & Merl., 372 (Kölbing). Þurch ous þou art in þi power: Ȝif ous now our lower!
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 5368. Ser. if þou lessen my life na lowere þou wynnes.
c. 1450. Merlin, 59. A knyght axed his body when he was deed vpon the seide crosse, and it was graunted hym of Pilate in lower of his servyse.
a. 1500. Image Ipocr., I. in Skelton’s Wks. (1843), II. 415. Thoughe Christ be the doer, They force not of his looer, They sett therby no stoore.
