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dark; gloomy; dismal. [Obs.]

Dark with clouds, or ready to rain; gloomy; -- said of the sky.

A mental disorder in which melancholy and gloomy views torment the affected person, particularly concerning his own health.

Idleness; habitual indisposition to action or exertion; want of energy; sluggishness. The gloomy inactivity of despair. Cook.

Having no mirth; not festive or merry; dull; cheerless; gloomy; forlorn. [R.]

ong, Within whose keep the captive knights were laid. Dryden. The lower chambers of those gloomy keeps. Hallam. I think . . . the keep, or principal part of a castle, was so called because the lord and his domestic circle kept, abode, or lived there. M. A. Lower.

Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright. White walls make rooms more lightsome than black. Bacon.

Hence; Appearance; aspect; as, the house has a gloomy look; the affair has a bad look. Pain, disgrace, and poverty have frighted looks. Locke. There was something that reminded me of Dante's Hell in the look of this. Carlyle.

To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest. All the clouds that lowered upon our house. Shak.

Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.

Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.

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.

One affected with a gloomy state of mind. J. Spenser.

To become gloomy or dejected in mind. Barrow.

Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess. Shak.

Dark; gloomy; murky. Spenser. Mrs. Browning.

Dark; gloomy; murky. [Archaic] Spenser. -- Mirk"some*ness, n. [Archaic]

Dark; gloomy. See Murky.

Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy. "Every peevish, moody malcontent." Rowe. Arouse thee from thy moody dream! Sir W. Scott.

Dark; obscure; gloomy. "The murkiest den." Shak. A murky deep lowering o'er our heads. Addison.