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Sullen; morose. [Obs. or R.] The sulky spite of a temper naturally dogged. Sir W. Scott.

Sullenness; moroseness. [R.]

To be sullen or morose. [Obs.]

To gloom; to look gloomy, morose, or sullen. [Obs.] Surrey.

Morose; severe of countenance; sour; surly; glum; grim. "Nick looked sour and grum." Arbuthnof.

ded as something had, possessed, and firmly retained; as, a religious habit; his habit is morose; elms have a spreading habit; esp., physical temperament or constitution; as, a full habit of body.

Unpleasant and repulsive to the sensibilities; austere; crabbed; morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough. Clarence is so harsh, so blunt. Shak. Though harsh the precept, yet the charmed. Dryden.

t; sullenness; esp., a disposition to cause unhappiness to others. -- Ill temper, anger; moroseness; crossness. -- Ill turn. (a) An unkind act. (b) A slight attack of illness. [Colloq. U.S.] -- Ill will, unkindness; enmity; malevolence.

Of bad temper; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome.

To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame South. Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft.

Surly; morose; crusty; sullen. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "Rusty words." Piers Plowman.

Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply. "A sour countenance." Swift. He was a scholar . . . Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him sweet as summer. Shak.

To be silently sullen; to be morose or obstinate. T. Hook.

The quality or state of being sulky; sullenness; moroseness; as, sulkiness of disposition.

Moodly silent; sullen; sour; obstinate; morose; splenetic.

Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose. And sullen I forsook the imperfect feast. Prior.

A sour, morose fellow. [Obs.] Camden.

Gloomily morose; ill-natured, abrupt, and rude; severe; sour; crabbed; rough; sullen; gloomy; as, a surly groom; a surly dog; surly language; a surly look. "That surly spirit, melancholy." Shak.

The quality or state of being unamiable; moroseness.

Not amiable; morose; ill-natured; repulsive. -- Un*a"mi*a*bly, adv.