adv. Sc. [f. LOWN a. + -LY2.] In a ‘lown’ manner. a. Calmly, quietly; in a low tone. b. In shelter, under fostering care.
1788. Picken, Poems, 56. His todlan wee anes … Nurs’t lownly up aneath his care.
18[?]. R. Chambers, Wheesht! Speak loundly about it; and don’t say I told you.
1890. J. Service, Thir Notandums, viii. 53. Lownly my faither leuch to himsel’.
