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Webster 1913 Edition
Gloom
Gloom
(gloōm)
, Noun.
1.
Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity;
as, the
. gloom
of a forest, or of midnight2.
A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.
Before a
gloom
of stubborn-shafted oaks. Tennyson .
3.
Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
A sullen
gloom
and furious disorder prevailed by fits. Burke.
4.
In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.
Syn. – Darkness; dimness; obscurity; heaviness; dullness; depression; melancholy; dejection; sadness. See
Darkness
. Gloom
,Verb.
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.
Gloom
,Verb.
T.
1.
To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
A bow window . . .
gloomed
with limes. Walpole.
A black yew
gloomed
the stagnant air. Tennyson.
2.
To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
Such a mood as that which lately
Your fancy.
gloomed
Your fancy.
Tennison.
What sorrows
gloomed
that parting day. Goldsmith.
Webster 1828 Edition
Gloom
GLOOM
,Noun.
1.
Obscurity; partial or total darkness; thick shade; as the gloom of a forest, or the gloom of midnight.2.
Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow. We say, the mind is sunk into gloom; a gloom overspreads the mind.3.
Darkness of prospect or aspect.4.
Sullenness.GLOOM
,Verb.
I.
1.
To be cloudy, dark or obscure.2.
To be melancholy or dejected.GLOOM
,Verb.
T.