English Dictionary: glooming | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Glooming \Gloom"ing\, n. [Cf. {Gloaming}.] Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming. When the faint glooming in the sky First lightened into day. --Trench. The balmy glooming, crescent-lit. --Tennyson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Gloom \Gloom\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gloomed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Glooming}.] 1. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer. 2. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight. The black gibbet glooms beside the way. --Goldsmith. [This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom. --Spenser. |