…of less than average height from top to bottom or to the top from the ground…
…denoting an older (and hence usually deeper) part of a stratigraphic division or archaeological deposit or the period in which it was formed or deposited…
…the social group that has the lowest status; the working class…
…a court whose decisions may be overruled by another court on appeal…
…the larger of two sections of a bicameral parliament or similar legislature, typically with elected members and having the primary responsibility for legislation…
…a city in New Zealand, near Wellington; population 97,701 (2006)…
…animals of relatively simple or primitive characteristics as contrasted with humans or with more advanced animals such as mammals or vertebrates…
…the mainly French-speaking region of Canada around the lower St Lawrence River, in what is now southern Quebec…
…a township in southeastern Pennsylvania that contains many suburban communities northwest of Philadelphia; population 57,203 (est. 2008)…
…plants of relatively simple or primitive characteristics, especially those which are not vascular plants, i.e. algae, mosses, liverworts, and sometimes fungi…
…a state of NW Germany; capital, Hanover. It corresponds to the north-western part of the former kingdom of Saxony…
…the section of a larger school which comprises or caters for the younger pupils, especially those below the fifth form…
…dated term for textual criticism, in contrast to higher criticism.…
…lower (or raise) the standards which need to be met in order to qualify for something…
…diminish the general spirit or moral character of a conversation, place, etc.…
…a district of southeastern Manhattan in New York City, noted as home to immigrants from the 1880s through the early 20th century…
…become more (or less) ambitious; increase (or lower) one’s expectations…
…behave in a way that is perceived as unworthy or debased…
…a term for the 48 contiguous US states, excluding Alaska and Hawaii…
…the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.…
…a rapid alternation of a note with the note immediately below or above it in the scale (sometimes further distinguished as lower mordent and upper mordent). The term inverted mordent usually refers to the upper mordent…
…two rivers in Siberian Russia, the Lower Tunguska and Stony Tunguska, flowing westwards into the Yenisei River through the forested, sparsely populated Tunguska Basin. The area was the scene in 1908 of a devastating explosion believed to have been due to the disintegration in the atmosphere of a meteorite or small comet…
…the Palaeozoic era or the system of rocks deposited during it…
…a rapid alternation of a note with the note immediately below or above it in the scale (sometimes further distinguished as lower mordent and upper mordent). The term inverted mordent usually refers to the upper mordent…
…relating to or denoting the era between the Precambrian aeon and the Mesozoic era…
…two rivers in Siberian Russia, the Lower Tunguska and Stony Tunguska, flowing westwards into the Yenisei River through the forested, sparsely populated Tunguska Basin. The area was the scene in 1908 of a devastating explosion believed to have been due to the disintegration in the atmosphere of a meteorite or small comet…
…relating to or denoting the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used…
