Sc. and north. dial. Also 5 llown, 9 lownd. [f. LOWN a.]
1. a. intr. To become calm, to calm; also with down. † b. trans. To make calm, to lull. Obs.
c. 1400. Sc. Trojan War (Horstm.), II. 1012. The see-tempestes llownyt not.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VII. ii. 5. Eftir the wyndis lownit war at will. Ibid., X. ii. 113. The wyndis eik thar blastis lownit sone.
1737. Ramsay, Sc. Prov. (1797), 24. Blaw the wind neer so fast it will lown at the last.
1894. R. W. Reid, Poems, 59. The win was lownin doon.
2. To shelter.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, XV. 276. And a myle wes betuix the seis, And that wes lownyt all with treis.
1802. Coleridge, Lett., 26 Aug. (1895), 400. I was sheltered (in the phrase of the country, lownded) in a sort of natural porch on the summit of Sca Fell.
Hence Lowned (lownit) ppl. a., calmed, still.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, V. iv. 107. Scherand the lownit air, [scho] Doun from the hycht discendis soft and fair.