What does "lower-case" mean?

Alternative spelling of lowercase.

What is a synonym for "lower-case"?

Common synonyms include: abecedarian, alphabetic, alphabetical, bold faced, capital, graphemic.

adj, verb

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Verb

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Alternative spelling of lowercase. alt-of, alternative
"Yet, as every rule has its exception, I have construed this dictum somewhat liberally and have as yet never failed to employ as big an A as I could command when the word American was used as an adjective, even while I lower-cased english, mexican and foreign nations generally."

Adjective

"The letter "n" is a lower-case character."