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Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.

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.

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

To make gloomy. [R.]

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

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

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

Pharaoh . . . 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.

to attend. Spenser. Attends the emperor in his royal court. Shak. With a sore heart and a gloomy brow, he prepared to attend William thither. Macaulay.

all its attendant evils. The natural melancholy attendant upon his situation added to the gloom of the owner of the mansion. Sir W. Scott.

In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds. I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud. Shak.

Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding. Shak. Dryden.

Having a black, dark, or gloomy face or aspect.

In a black manner; darkly, in color; gloomily; threateningly; atrociously. "Deeds so blackly grim and horrid." Feltham.

Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue. [Colloq.]

g wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches. Beneath thy branchy bowers of thickest gloom. J. Scott.