• IPA: /ˈləʊɪŋ/

1. present participle of low#English|low

   The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes.

   • a. 1882, anonymous, "Away In a Manger"

     But little Lord Jesus, no crying he makes.''

lowing (plural lowings)

1. The sound of something that lows.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, 1 Samuel 15:14 ↗:

     And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheepe in mine eares, and the lowing of the oxen which I heare?

   • 1629, John Milton, “On the Morning of Christ's Nativity”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […] , London: Printed by Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Moſely,  […], published 1645, OCLC 606951673 ↗, page 11 ↗:

     Nor is Oſiris seen
     In Memphian Grove, or Green,
     Trampling the unſhower'd Graſſe with lowings loud: