Hypertext Webster Gateway: "glowering"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Glower \Glow"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Glowered}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Glowering}.] [Cf. {Gloar}.]
to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl.
--Thackeray.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

glowering
adj : showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the
proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum,
hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose
and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost
misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour
temper"; "a sullen crowd" [syn: {dark}, {dour}, {glum},
{moody}, {morose}, {saturnine}, {sour}, {sullen}]


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