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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.

Being in, or characteristic of, the middle of the night; as, midnight studies; midnight gloom. "Midnight shout and revelry." Milton.

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.

Darkly; gloomily.

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

ughes. (b) An active, robust, and cheerful Christian life, as opposed to a meditative and gloomy one. C. Kingsley. -- Muscular excitability (Physiol.), that property in virtue of which a muscle shortens, when it is stimulated; irritability. -- Muscular sense (Physiol.), muscular sensibility; the sense by which we obt…

To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow. Shak.

Of or pertaining to pessimism; characterized by pessimism; gloomy; foreboding. "Giving utterance to pessimistic doubt." Encyc. Brit.

Without a phase, or visible form. [R.] "A phaseless and increasing gloom." Poe.

The son of Saturn and Rhea, brother of Jupiter and Neptune; the dark and gloomy god of the Lower World. Pluto monkey (Zoöl.), a long- tailed African monkey (Cercopithecus pluto), having side whiskers. The general color is black, more or less grizzled; the frontal band is white.

Misty; gloomy. [Obs.] Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood. Shak.

Affected with grief or unhappiness; cast down with affliction; downcast; gloomy; mournful. First were we sad, fearing you would not come; Now sadder, that you come so unprovided. Shak. The angelic guards ascended, mute and sad. Milton.

To make grave or serious; to make melancholy or sorrowful. Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene. Pope.