Emily Dickinson Lexicon

low (-er), adj. [ME lāh.]

1. Heavy; weighed down; [fig.] tired; exhausted; dead; defunct.
2. Quiet; subtle; not loud; almost as inaudible; soft in tone; subdued of voice.
3. Less prestigious; [fig.] mortal; earthly; worldly.
4. Sunken; ground-level; not elevated; [fig.] grave; cemetery.
5. Baser; less significant.
6. Close to the ground; [fig.] common; ordinary; ubiquitous.
7. Inferior; below a noble level; [fig.] bowed; bent; [metaphor] less worthy; of lesser status.
8. Minor; less advanced; [fig.] merely temporal; [kenning “the lower Way”] mortality.
9. Corruptible; subject to decay; no longer able to rise to its normal height.
10. Downcast; [fig.] closed; with eyelids shut down.
11. Humbling; depressing; dejected.
12. Short; small in size; less in stature.
13. Humble; meek; modest; willing; biddable; self-forgetful; anxious to please.
14. Hovering; sinking down; approaching earth; heavy with condensation; [fig.] threatening; glowering.
15. Fewer; less in numbers; smaller quantity of.
16. Insufficient; short in altitude; lacking in quantity.
17. Underground; subterranean.
18. Living beneath the heavens.