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A place of nether darkness, being the gloomy space through which the souls passed to Hades. See Milton's "Paradise Lost," Book II., line 883.

To checker; to diversify. [R. & Poet.] The painted windows, frecking gloom with glow. Lowell.

[A Gallicism: cf. Fr. donner sur.] Rooms which gave upon a pillared porch. Tennyson. The gloomy staircase on which the grating gave. Dickens. -- To give out. (a) To expend all one's strength. Hence: (b) To cease from exertion; to fail; to be exhausted; as, my feet being to give out; the flour has given out. -- To giv…

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

Gloom. [Obs.]

dark; gloomy; dismal. [Obs.]

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

That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness. Breathes a browner horror on the woods. Pope. The horrors, delirium tremens. [Colloq.]

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.]

Between two lives. [R.] Through all its [the spirit's] intervital gloom. Tennyson.

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.

One who causes gloom or grief; a dispiriting person. W. Black.

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

, to list a door; to stripe as if with list. The tree that stood white-listed through the gloom. Tennyson.

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.

In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom.