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Becoming dark or gloomy; frowing. His honest brows darkling as he looked towards me. Thackeray.

al place. Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith. A dismal description of an English November. Southey.

A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow. [Obs.] "Raging frantic froes." Draylon.

Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front. Shak. His front yet threatens, and his frowns command. Prior.

A frown (likened to a frontlet). [R. & Poetic] What makes that frontlet on Methinks you are too much of late i' the frown. Shak.

Peevish; froward. [Obs.] Clarendon.

To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown. [Obs.] The Commons frounced and stormed. Holland.

Fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight; slovenly; dingy. See Frowzy. "Petticoats in frouzy heaps." Swift.

One well born; a gentleman. [Obs.] Gentles, methinks you frown. Shak.

Frowning; sulky; sullen. Sir W. Scott. -- n.

recompense; -- used in both a good and a bad sense. Macaulay. So young as to regard men's frown or smile As loss or guerdon of a glorious lot. Byron. He shall, by thy revenging hand, at once receive the just guerdon of all his former villainies. Knolles.

oem; the historic page. -- His*tor"ic*al*ness, n. -- His*to*ric"i*ty, n. There warriors frowning in historic brass. Pope. Historical painting, that branch of painting which represents the events of history. -- Historical sense, that meaning of a passage which is deduced from the circumstances of time, place, etc., u…

erve, examine, consider; as, to look at a matter without prejudice. -- To look black, to frown; to scowl; to have a threatening appearance. The bishops thereat repined, and looked black. Holinshed. -- To look down on or upon, to treat with indifference or contempt; to regard as an inferior; to despise. -- To look for…

To frown; to look sullen. But sullen discontent sat lowering on her face. Dryden.

a desired or desirable condition; to cause to thrive. Who makes or ruins with a smile or frown. Dryden.

Mischievous; perverse; froward; guilty of disobedient or improper conduct; as, a naughty child.

to complain; querulous; petulant. "Her peevish babe." Wordsworth. She is peevish, sullen, froward. Shak.

de in some, and like petulance in others. Clarendon. The lowering eye, the petulance, the frown. Cowper.

ontemptuous disapprobation, as by the exclamation " Pshaw!" The goodman used regularly to frown and pshaw wherever this topic was touched upon. Sir W. Scott.

Sour; surly; frowning; wrinkled; -- said of looks, etc. "Sleek o'er your rugged looks." Shak.