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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.

Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton.

dark; gloomy; dismal. [Obs.]

pprobation or contempt. "Hiss" implies audible friction of breath consonants. H. Sweet. A dismal, universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn. Milton.

urnal, and gregarious. They feed largely on carrion, and are noted for their piercing and dismal howling.

Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal. Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame. Thomson. Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke On the misty river tide. Tennyson.

Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal. Shak.

Black; pitch-dark; dismal. "Pitchy night." Shak.

be burnt. For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare. Pope.

to the act, but differently determined in different plays; as, an act of four scenes. My dismal scene I needs must act alone. Shak.

out signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted; silent; still; hence, gloomy; dismal; as, the solitary desert. How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people. Lam. i. 1. Let that night be solitary; let no joyful voice come therein. Job iii. 7.

Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful. Spenser. All full of chirking was this sorry place. Chaucer.

Gloomy; dismal; foreboding. Milton. Solemn hymns so sullen dirges change. Shak.

uch; unfixed; easily affected; unstable. Can any man with comfort lodge in a condition so dismally ticklish Barrow.

r glad with these tidings. Shak. Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith.

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. The dismal situation waste and wild. Milton. His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into the waste darkness of futurity. Sir W. Scott.