704 LOW 
was ele&ed a fellow of the Royal Society. Upon his re¬ 
turn into France, lie fixed his refidence at a fmall coun- 
try-lioufe within a quarter of a league of Orleans, where he 
applied himfelf molt afiiduoufly to his aftronomical ftudies. 
So intent was he in prosecuting them, that he became a 
philofcphical reclufe, and was never to be fpoken with 
but during the time when he was at his meals. At the 
fame time, however, that he led this folitary life, and 
feemed to be wholly wrapt up in himfelf, and to regard 
external objefis with Itoical apathy, he was friendly, 
obliging, and liberal. Fontenelle alfo relates, that, though 
he was thus ftrifily ftudious, he was noted fora degree of 
delicacy and nicenefs with refpefi to drefs, and articles 
for the table, which one would not expefi to obferve in 
Co profound and abltratl: a philofop'her. In the year .1732, 
lie Was attacked by a lethargic diforder; and foon after¬ 
wards a relapfe proved fatal to him, when he was about 
the age of fixty-one. He was the author of a great num¬ 
ber of curious Dilfertations on phyfical and agronomical 
fubjefis, feveral of which are inferted in the Memoirs of 
the Academy of Sciences, and others in the French Mer¬ 
cury, after the year 1720. He was a good fcientific me- 
■ chanic, and had an excellent collection of the heft aftro- 
nomicai inllruments, of which the molt difficult and in¬ 
genious were made with his own hands. Moreri. 
LOU'VO, a town of Siam, on a river which runs into 
the Mecon. The ancient kings had here a pleafure-houfe 
or palace, which was rebuilt in 1687. The fituation is 
charming, and the air fo good, that the king refides here 
the greateft part of the year. It is forty miles fouth of 
Siam. Lat. 14. 55. N. Ion. xoo, 30. E. 
LOUVOI'S, a town of France, in the department of 
the Marne : nine miles north-eaft of Epernay. 
LOUVOI'S (Marquis). SeeTELLiER. 
LOU'VRE, f. The name of the royal palace at Paris. 
The Honours of the Louvre, were certain privileges (which 
we may now fuppofe will be or are reftored in the ancient 
form) annexed to divers dignities, or offices, particularly 
thofe of duke, peer, chancellor, &c. as to enter the Louvre 
in a coach, to have the tabouret, or ftool, in the queen’s 
prefence, &c. 
LOU'VRE, f. [from its being firft ufed at the above 
place.] A well-known dance-tune. 
LOU'VRES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Seine and Oife: twelve miles north of Paris. Lat. 49. 
3. N. Ion. 2. 35. E. 
LOU'VS, or Louis (John), an engraver of confiderable 
eminence, who flourilhed about the middle of the fix- 
teenth century. According to Bafan, he was a native of 
Flanders. He learned the art of engraving from Peter 
Soutman, at the time that Suyderhoef ftudied under the 
famemalter; and his ufual flyle of engraving bears fome 
refemblance to that of his malter. One of his belt prints 
is Diana, with her nymphs, repofing after the chafe; a 
middling-fixed plate, lengthwife, from Rubens. 
LOUZAC', a town of France, in the department of 
the Correze : feven miles north-eaft of Uzerches, and 
twelve north of Tulle. 
LOW, adj. Not high : 
Their wand’ring courfe now high, now low, then hid, 
Progreffive, retrograde. Milton. 
Not riling far upwards.—It became a threading vine of 
l,w ftature. Ezek. xvii. 6.—Not elevated in place, or local 
fituation.—Whatfoever is walhed away from them is car¬ 
ried down into the lower grounds, and into the lea, and 
nothing is brought back. Burnet's Theory of the Earth. 
O mighty Caefar ! dolt thou lye fo low ? 
Are all thy conquefts, glories, triumphs, fpoils, 
Shrunk to this little meafure ? Skakefpeare’s Julius Cafar. 
Defcending far downwards; deep.—The lowcjl bottom 
fnook of Erebus. Milton. 
So high as heav’d the tumid hills, fo lew 
Do wn funk a hollow bottom, broad and deep, 
Capacious bed of waters. Milton. 
LOW 
NoT deep; not fwelling high ; (hallow; ufed of water — 
As two men were walking by the fea-fide at low water, 
they faw an oyfter, and both pointed at it together. 
V Efirange.— Not of high price : as, corn is low. —Not loud ; 
not noily.—The theatre is fo well-contrived, that, from 
the very deep of the ftage, the lowef found may be heard 
diftinfily to the fartheft part of the audience ; and yet, if 
you raife your voice as high as you pleafe, there is nothing 
like an echo to caufe confusion. Addijon on Italy. 
As when in open air we blow, 
The breath, though ftrain’d, founds flat and lew : 
But, if a trumpet take the blaft, 
It lifts it high, and makes it laft. Waller. 
In latitudes near to the line.—They take their courfe ei¬ 
ther high to the north, or low to the fouth. Abbot's De¬ 
fer iption of the World. —Not rifing to fo great a Aim as fome 
other accumulation of particulars.—Who can imagine, 
that in fixteen or feventeen hundred years time, taking 
the lower chronology, that the earth had then Hood, man¬ 
kind Should be propagated no farther than Judaea? Bur¬ 
net. —Late in time : as, the lower empire.—Dejefied ; de- 
prelfed: 
His fpirits are fo low, his voice is drown’d, 
He hears as from afar, or in a fwoon, 
Like the deaf murmur of a diltant found. Dryden. 
Impotent; fubdued.—To keep them all quiet, he muft 
keep them in greater awe and iefs fplendour ; which power 
he will ule to keep them as low as he pleafes, and at no 
more colt than makes for his own plealure. Graunt. 
To be worft. 
The lowef, molt dejected, thing of fortune, 
Stands ftill in efperance. Shakefpeare. 
Not elevated in rank or ftation ; abjefi.—He wooes botk 
high and low, both rich and poor. Shahejpeare. — Disho¬ 
nourable; betokening meannefs of mind : as, low tricks j 
Yet fometimes nations will decline fo low 
From virtue, which is reafon, that no wrong 
But juftice, and fome fatal courfe annex’d. 
Deprives them of their outward liberty, 
Their inward loft. Milton. 
Notfublime; not exalted in thought or difiion.—In com- 
parifon of thefe divine writers, the nobleft wits of th* 
heathen world are lew and dull. Fcltor.. —Submillive; hum¬ 
ble ; reverent: 
I bring them to receive 
From thee their names, and pay their fealty 
With lew fubjefiion. Milton. 
LOW, adv. In times approaching towards our own.— 
In that part of the world which was firft inhabited, even 
as low down as Abraham’s time, they wandered with their 
flocks and herds. Locke. —With a depreflion of the voice. 
—Lucia, fpeak low ; he is retired to reft. Addifon. —In a flat® 
of fubjefiion.—How comes it that, having been once fo 
low brought and thoroughly fubjefied, they afterward* 
lifted themfelves fo ftrongly again ? Spenfcr. 
To LOW, v. a. To link; to make low. Probably mif- 
printed for lower. —The valise of guineas was lowed from 
one-and-twenty and fixpence to one-and-twenty Ihillings; 
Swift. 
To LOW, v. n. [hlojian, Sax. The adjefiive low, 1I08 
high, is pronounced lo, and would rhyme to no: the verb 
low, to bellow, is by Dryden rhymed to now. ] To bellow 
as a cow.—Doth the wild afs bray when he has grafs ? os 
lowelh the ox over his fodder? Job, vi. 5. 
Fair Id grac’d his (hield, but lo now, 
With horns exalted Itands, and feems to low. Dryden. 
LOW (Edward), amufician of the fever.teenth century ; 
brought up in Salilbury cathedral, and was appointed 01- 
ganilt of Chrift-church, Oxford, in 1630, where he was 
deputy 
