These are the meanings of the letters ROERWL when you unscramble them.
- Lower (a.)
Compar. of Low, a.
- Lower (a.)
To bring down; to humble; as, to lower one's pride.
- Lower (a.)
To depress as to direction; as, to lower the aim of a gun; to make less elevated as to object; as, to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes.
- Lower (a.)
To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag.
- Lower (a.)
To reduce in value, amount, etc. ; as, to lower the price of goods, the rate of interest, etc.
- Lower (a.)
To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of; as, to lower the temperature of anything; to lower one's vitality; to lower distilled liquors.
- Lower (a.)
To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret.
- Lower (n.)
A frowning; sullenness.
- Lower (n.)
Cloudiness; gloominess.
- Lower (v. i.)
To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
- Lower (v. i.)
To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease; as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose.
- Lower (v. i.)
To frown; to look sullen.
- Rowel (n.)
A little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits.
- Rowel (n.)
A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery.
- Rowel (n.)
The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points.
- Rowel (v. t.)
To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse).
- Rower (n.)
One who rows with an oar.