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lowlandn.adj. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: low adj., land n.1 Etymology: < low adj. + land n.1For variants with reduction of the first syllable see Lallan adj. and n. Some of the uses in branch B. (including uses in plural form) show attributive use of the noun. Originally Scottish. A. n. 1. Chiefly with capital initial. the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > Scotland > [noun] > lowlands 1425 in (2007) 1425/3/26 Bot in the law landis quhare sic scathis done and may be kennit,..that thar be chosin tharto gud men and leill suorne to modify a mendis eftir the qualite of the persoune and the quantite of the scath. 1492 Breadalbane Coll. Documents & Lett. (Edinb. Reg. House) No. 26 in at Lawland Be it kend..ws Archibald Erle of Ergille..till haif maid..our derest cosing..our balȝe of all our landis in the lauland of Scotland. 1528 D. Lindsay 969 In the lawland I come..And purposit thare to mak my residence; Bot singulare proffect gart me soune disluge. 1631 in C. Innes (1859) 273 The necessitie of his advis doeth ofttymes invite him to the lowlandis. a1687 W. Petty (1691) iv. 69 Whether England and the Low-Lands of Scotland, can maintain a fifth part more People than they now do..the said Territories of England, and the Low-Land of Scotland, contain about Thirty Six Millions of Acres. 1754 E. Burt I. iii. 40 The Kirk..distinguishes the Lowlands from the Highlands by the Language generally spoken by the Inhabitants. 1822 J. Galt xiii. 98 Mr. Keg..had come in from the Laighlands..to live among us. 1890 1 Feb. 296/1 The lotman was the thresher and he was to be found erewhile on every farm of the Lowlands. 1938 Duke of Montrose in R. Bain 11 The Tartan as a dress properly belongs to the Highlands, and not to the Lowlands. 1961 C. R. MacKinnon 95 Montrose had mustered his army at Blair Atholl, and decided to open his campaign in the Lowlands in order to encourage the king's supporters in the south. 2009 G. Seth iii. 52 There is..an imaginary line from Aberdeen in the north to Glasgow in the south which separates the Highlands in the north and west from the Lowlands in the south and east. the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > British English > Scottish English 1822 W. Scott III. ix. 257 We..have idiots about us that cannot understand what we mint at, unless we speak it out in braid Lowlands. 1841 J. Ballantine in 3rd Ser. 27 My young cousin Peggy cam doun frae Dunkeld, Wi' nae word o'lawlants ava, man. a1878 H. Ainslie (1892) 335 Has gude braid lawlan's left the land? 1921 A. Dodds 3 But yet, I ken, ye'll no disdain Oor Lawlan' in an antrin sang. 2. gen.the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > [noun] 1488 (1814) II. 208/2 The lord Oliphant for the law land of the schirrefdome of Perth, Strathbravn and the bischoprik of Dunkelden. The lord Gray [etc.]..for Angus hie land and law land. 1495 (de Worde) xiv. xlvi. sig. Fi/2 Ualeye is lowe londe sette bytwene mountayns. 1579 Tale Hemetes the Heremite in A. Fleming tr. Synesius sig. c.iiijv Chiron, not without good cause, cut Achilles speare out of the mountaine Pelius, where it grew, and not out of anie lowe lande or downe. c1613 Narr. Voy. Spitzbergen in (1860) 4 313 Theise morses use to goe ashoare vpon some beach or pointe of lowe land. 1686 in (1903) XVII. 74 Grant mee..20 Acres of low land and it being piney. 1725 R. Innes Let. 2 June in (1732) i. 4 The Low-Land of Magilligan is divided into Ridges (or as we call them Dryms) of Sand. 1792 J. Belknap III. Pref. 6 The low-land adjacent to the fresh rivers, which is frequently overflowed by the freshets. 1841 H. D. Thoreau 8 Feb. (1981) I. 259 Upland and lowland.—forest and field have been ransacked. 1850 R. Glisan (1874) iii. 21 On either side of this lowland of the river, are the boundless prairies. 1885 Jer. xxxiii. 13 In the cities of the lowland. 1921 11 553 A granitic lowland of moderate relief..overstrewn with weathered boulders. 1995 S. Marty ii. 20 It is merely a wide expanse of grassy lowland, a lake of buttercups in the spring. the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > [noun] a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil (1957) iii. viii. l. 33 The dym hillis on far we dyd aspy, And saw the law landis of Italy. 1596 W. Raleigh (new ed.) 42 In the winter they dwell vpon the trees, where they build very artificiall townes and villages, as it is written..that those people do in the low lands neere the gulfe of Vraba. 1642 A. Burrell 1 Before I declare the Reasons why those Low Lands are subject to drowning; I conceive it is fit to discover to them that doe not know those Countries, in what condition the Fens were before they were drowned. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Metamorphoses i, in 52 No Nat'ral cause she found, from Brooks, or Bogs, Or marshy Lowlands, to produce the Fogs. 1725 D. Defoe ii. 95 So high above them, that the low Valley looked, as the Low Lands in England look below Box-Hill, in Surrey. 1774 E. Long III. 790 This beautiful tree grows to a considerable size in the lowlands. 1850 W. Flagg Let. 13 Sept. in (1986) 118 It is timbered mostly with oak, spruce growing in the lowlands reminding me strongly of down East. 1864 J. R. Lowell 118 The lowlands and levels of ordinary palaver. 1870 J. Yeats 106 The central lowlands must be the coldest part of North America. 1903 L. H. Harvey 15 Encroaching upon this zone from below came that of the Alpine tundra, extending out into the lowlands. 1967 P. J. Tilbrook in J. L. Gressitt 338/2 The other two major islands are Powell I[sland] and Signy I[sland]—it is the latter..that exhibits the greatest expanse of lowlands which are free from snow and ice in the summer. 2008 R. Beard (2009) iii. 61 We can see the huge panorama of where we're about to go, across the Monmouthshire lowlands and into the farness of the mountains. the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Low Countries > [noun] c1685 in J. W. Ebsworth (1887) VI. ii. 421 He set his breast, and away he did swim, in the Neather-lands, Until he came to the false Gallaly, sailing in the Low-lands. 1689 i. 6 His own People..were obliged to call in Anaximander, Prince of the Low Lands [sc. William of Orange], to their Assistance to defend their Lives, which they affirm'd Lycogenes [sc. James II] had expos'd and sold to Polydorus King of the Gaules [sc. Louis XIV]. 1846 R. Coates 51 Her maternal ancestor, a love-guided exile from the lowlands, ‘Embosomed in the deep where Holland lies’. 1898 22 Jan. 119/2 Both England and France, who would have assisted the revolt of the Lowlands as far as they could, shrank from the chance of provoking war with Spain. 1923 G. B. Harrison iii. 100 Between his service in the Lowlands and the success of Every Man in his Humour, 1598, he had tried acting. 1961 T. Henrot 28 Some fifteen Spanish grandees were named successively governors of the Spanish Low Lands. 1994 7 Jan. (Weekend section) 48/2 The Lowlands' revolt against Spain in the late 16th century inspired mapmakers to depict the tiny country as a fighting lion. B. adj. ( attributive). the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > Scotland > [adjective] > lowlands the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > of varieties of English > Scottish English 1504 in (2007) A1504/3/104 Everilk hieland man and lawland man may cum and ask justice without pell or danger. a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in (1998) I. 202 Ane Lawland ers wald mak a bettir noyis. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden i. 155 The Scots are divided into Hechtlandmen, and Lawlandmen. 1679 T. Kirke 11 The Low-land Gentry go well enough habited. a1722 J. Toland (1726) I. 103 The Lowland Scots have rhym'd it thus. 1752 F. Fawkes Pref. p. v The Lowland Scotch language, and the English, at that time, were nearly the same. 1807 R. Tannahill 163 Lowland lassie wilt thou go, Whare the hills are clad wi' snow. 1896 N. Munro 222 In her house on the Lowlands road Jean Rob starved. 1898 S. R. Crockett i. 6 Lambs which had just been brought from a neighbouring lowland farm. 1918 G. R. Blake iv. 48 The capital of the Highlands is..a notable town, built in the best Lowland style and set in a landscape of purely Highland beauty. 1921 E. Sapir viii. 188 The long undiphthongized u is still preserved in Lowland Scotch. 1999 N. Wheale vi. 88 The eldest son of any family owning more than sixty cattle would go south to a Lowlands school in order to learn to ‘speak, read, and write English’. 2006 D. N. McCloskey xxvi. 305 They were not wild Highlanders, and certainly not Catholics, but lowland Scots of a deist or atheistic bent. the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > [adjective] 1567 in J. H. Burton (1877) 1st Ser. I. 555 To eschew sic contemptuus oppressioun in a peciabill cuntre and lawland. 1691 J. Dryden i. i. 7 His Errand was, to draw the Low-land damps..from the foggy Fens. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury III. Misc. ii. i. 52 Israel was constrain'd to go down to Egypt, and sue for Maintenance to these..Low-Land States. 1721 A. Ramsay (1944) I. 113 He..Doups down to visit ilka Laigh-land Ghaist. 1764 1 453 The oat-stubble, the sedge, or long lowland spiry grass. 1823 T. Nicholls Steam Boat Compan. in W. Hone (1827) II. 926 Our lowland vapours..deranged her constitution. 1863 T. Woolner 138 Well coerced by Lowland William's [i.e. William III's] craft. 1868 W. W. Hunter 2 The English have studied and understand the lowland population as no conquerors ever studied or understood a subject race. 1920 1 285 The encroachment of lowland animals as well as plants into the alpine zone. 1981 Dec. 79/2 In this lowlands furnace, where 60 children a week were dying. 2009 12 Oct. (Guide to Chocolate section) 2/3 The fruit of the..cacao tree that is native to lowland, tropical zones of South America, Africa and South-east Asia. Compounds 1927 4 23 From the lowland gorillas of West Africa it [sc. the mountain gorilla] differs importantly in many respects. 1962 4 Jan. 16/1 The mountain gorilla [was] subsequently named Gorilla gorilla beringei to distinguish it from the closely similar lowland gorilla of West Africa. 1982 G. H. R. von Koenigswald in L. E. M. de Boer i. 1 One species and three subspecies of gorillas are presently distinguished: Gorilla gorilla gorilla Western lowland gorilla, Gorilla gorilla beringei Eastern highland gorilla, Gorilla gorilla graueri Eastern lowland gorilla. 2007 May 205/1 They are fed bush meat from the forest okapi (the exceedingly rare ‘forest giraffe’), elephant, and lowland gorilla. society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [noun] > bagpipe 1794 J. Ritson in I. p. cxiv Paradoxical..as it may appear, the lowland pipes were probably introduced out of England. 1823 J. C. Robertson & T. Byerley XIII. ii. 90 The Scots' Lowland pipe is also a very loud instrument, though not so much so as the Highland pipe. 1911 10 Jan. 8/7 There is a lowland pipe, but it is the pipe of the Highlanders that is always meant by the term ‘bagpipe’. 2007 (Nexis) 15 Dec. (Information section) 37 A master of the..Highland and bellows-blown Lowland pipes, his improvisatory style combines Gaelic traditions with an eclectic range of contemporary influences. 1864 A. H. R. Grisebach 788/1 Sweet-wood, lowland: Nectandra sanguinea. 1890 403 Nectandra sanguinea... Yellow or Lowland Sweet-wood. Indigenous and West Indies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022). <  n.adj.1425 |
