To frown; scowl; look sullen; watch in sullen silence.To appear dark or gloomy; be clouded; threaten a storm.To look bad; appear in bad condition.To lurk; crouch; skulk.To strike, as a clock, with a low prolonged sound; toll the curfew.n. A frown; scowl; frowning; sullenness.n. Cloudiness; gloominess.To cause to descend; let down; take or bring down: as, to lower the sail of a ship; to lower cargo into the hold.To reduce or bring down, as in height, amount, value, estimation, condition, degree, etc.; make low or lower: as, to lower a wall (by removing a part of the top); to lower the water in a canal (by allowing some to run off); to lower the temperature of a room or the quality of goods; to lower the point of a spear or the muzzle of a gun; to lower prices or the rate of interest.To bring down in spirit; humble; humiliate: as, to lower one's pride; to lower one in the estimation of others.In relief-engravingto scrape or cut away, as the surface of a block, in such manner as to leave it highest in the middle; orto depress, as any part of the surface which it is desired shall print lightly from being exposed to a diminished pressure.In music, to change from a high to a low pitch; specifically, in musical notation, to depress; flat: said of changing the significance of a staff-degree or of a note on such a degree by attaching a flat to it either in the signature or as an accidental.To fall; sink; grow less; become lower in any way.n. Hire; reward.