Sc. and north. dial. Also 5 llown, 9 lownd. [f. LOWN a.]

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  1.  a. intr. To become calm, to calm; also with down.b. trans. To make calm, to lull. Obs.

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c. 1400.  Sc. Trojan War (Horstm.), II. 1012. The see-tempestes llownyt not.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, VII. ii. 5. Eftir the wyndis lownit war at will. Ibid., X. ii. 113. The wyndis eik thar blastis lownit sone.

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1737.  Ramsay, Sc. Prov. (1797), 24. Blaw the wind ne’er so fast it will lown at the last.

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1894.  R. W. Reid, Poems, 59. The win’ was lownin’ doon.

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  2.  To shelter.

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1375.  Barbour, Bruce, XV. 276. And a myle wes betuix the seis, And that wes lownyt all with treis.

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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.

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  Hence Lowned (lownit) ppl. a., calmed, still.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, V. iv. 107. Scherand the lownit air, [scho] Doun from the hycht discendis soft and fair.

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