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In a gloomy manner.

State of being gloomy. Addison.

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.

Gloom. [R.] Walpole.

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

n a family for several generations. Woe to him whose daring hand profanes The honored heirlooms of his ancestors. Moir.

The hawthorn.

Blooming in the night. Night-blooming cereus. (Bot.) See Note under Cereus.

To spread gloom over; to make gloomy; to overshadow. [R.] Overgloomed by memories of sorrow. De Quincey.

To bloom again. Crabbe.

Slumber. [Prov. Eng.]

Sluggish; slow. [Prov. Eng.]

A tool; an implement. [Scot.]

Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund.

Mature age; full bloom of life. B. Jonson.

at in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy.

l compounds, in inflective languages to chemical compounds. R. Morris. Cf. man-kind, heir-loom, war-like, which are agglutinative compounds. The Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, the Tamul, etc., are agglutinative languages. R. Morris. Agglutinative languages preserve the consciousness of their roots. Max Müller.…

haraoh . . . arrayed him in vestures of fine linen. Gen. xli. In gelid caves with horrid gloom arrayed. Trumbull.

Out of one's thoughts; off; away; as, to put aside gloomy thoughts. "Lay aside every weight." Heb. xii. 1.

The act of assembling, or the state o In sweet assemblage every blooming grace. Fenton.