(idiomatic) To use one's superior physical strength. / (idiomatic, with "on") To scold severely.

(anatomy) The part of the respiratory tract starting at the trachea and ending at the bronchioles. / (anatomy) The part of the respiratory tract starting at the trachea and ending at alveoli.

(government) The lower legislative house in a bicameral legislature; in many cases, the one that is directly elected and/or has more practical power, such as the power to raise and spend money.

(government) The lower legislative chamber in a bicameral legislature; in many cases, the one that is directly elected and/or has more practical power, such as the power to raise and spend money.

plural of lower house

plural of lower chamber

(countable, nautical) The deck of a ship immediately above the hold / (uncountable, nautical, by extension) Those members of a ship's company who are not officers.

(historical) A former British colony located in what is now Labrador and southern Québec.

(mathematical analysis) The lower limit of a sequence of real numbers is the real number which can be found as follows: remove the first term of the sequence in order to obtain the "first subsequence." Then remove the first term of the first subsequence in order to obtain the "second subsequence." Repeat the removal of first terms in order to obtain a "third subsequence," "fourth subsequence," etc. Find the infimum of each of these subsequences, then find the supremum of all of these infimums. This supremum is the lower limit.

a Slavic language spoken in part of Brandenburg