GLOOM

Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.

A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove. Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks. Tennyson .

Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness. A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits. Burke.

In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.

To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

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.

To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken. A bow window . . . gloomed with limes. Walpole. A black yew gloomed the stagnant air. Tennyson.

To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen. Such a mood as that which lately gloomed Your fancy. Tennison. What sorrows gloomed that parting day. Goldsmith.