Hypertext Webster Gateway: "glooming"
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
glooming
adj : depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming
interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic" [syn:
{gloomy}, {gloomful}]
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