lowly

adj 1: low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage";

"a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people";

"small beginnings" [syn: {humble}, {low}, {modest}, {small}]

2: inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly

corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate

functionary" [syn: {junior-grade}, {inferior}, {lower}, {lower-ranking},

{petty(a)}, {secondary}, {subaltern}, {subordinate}]

3: used of unskilled work (especially domestic work) [syn: {humble},

{menial}]

4: of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense);

"baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or

lowly) birth" [syn: {base}, {baseborn}, {humble}]

LOWL

The {abstract machine} for {bootstrapping} {ML/1},

developed by P.J. Brown of the {University of Kent at

Canterbury}.

["Macro Processors and Techniques for Portable Software",

P.J. Brown, published by Wiley, ISBN 0.471.11005.1].

[Mentioned in "Machine Oriented Higher Level Languages",

W. van der Poel, N-H 1974, p. 271].

[What does LOWL stand for?]

(1997-11-04)