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lore (LOHR) (noun)
1. Traditional knowledge learned through study or experience: For her dissertation, Zelda studied and wrote about the lore of the sailors on the whaling ships.
2. The small distance between the eyes of a bird and the bill or similarly in reptiles or fish: The scientist developed specialized instruments to measure the lore of the parrot in comparison to the lore of snakes.
lower (LOHR) (verb)
1. To look gloomy or threatening: Dan's face appeared to lower after reading the news in the paper.
2. To let down; to reduce in height: It is time to lower the flag, not to raise it!
lower (LOHR) (adjective)
1. Representing the typically larger and more representative section in a bicameral legislature: Fern was proud to be elected to the lower house of government as she thought she would be more effective there.
2. A comparative description of rank, order, or physical location that is under or below something or someone else: Jillian's chair is lower than the others because she is short and her feet would not touch the floor otherwise.

The lore of the lower river valley was rich and varied.

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(Greek: down, downward; under, lower; against; entirely, in accordance with, completely; definitely)
(Latin: to make worse, to become worse; lower, inferior; unfavorable; decline, declining; diminish, diminishing)
(Greek: lower extremity of the windpipe; by extension, extremity of the heart, the great artery)
(Greek: ring; used in the extended sense of pertaining to the [ring-shaped] cartilage that forms the back and lower part of the laryngeal cavity)
(Greek: the lower world [originally, invisible, to make invisible])
(Greek > Latin: groin, flank, lower part of the body; gut, bowels, abdomen, loins)
(Latin: loin; by extension, the lower back)
(Latin: jaw, lower jaw; chew; from mandere, "to chew")
(Latin: to chew; Greek: to gnash, grind, or rub the upper and lower teeth together)
(Greek: scrotum; a combining form denoting relationship to the scrotum or the pouch of skin which contains the testes, epididymides, and lower portions of the spermatic cords)
(Latin: full of or having the qualities of; in chemistry, a suffix denoting that the element indicated by the name bearing it, has a valence lower than that denoted by the termination -ic; as, nitrous, sulphurous, etc., as contrasted with nitric, sulphuric, etc.)
(Latin: push lower, bear down on or against)
(Greek: gatekeeper; lower gastric orifice through which the contents of the stomach enter the duodenum)
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lower mantle
The portion of the mantle below a depth of about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) which is also known as "inner mantle" or the "mesosphere".
This entry is located in the following unit: mantel-, mantle-, -manteau + (page 1)