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

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.

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.

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.

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

To grow bright, or more bright; to become less dark or gloomy; to clear up; to become bright or cheerful. And night shall brighten into day. N. Cotton. And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere world be past. Goldsmith.

ll continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes. Brooding on unprofitable gold. Dryden. Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit. Hawthorne. When w…

To grow cheerful; to become gladsome or joyous; -- usually with up. At sight of thee my gloomy soul cheers up. A. Philips.

To darken or obscure, as if by hiding or enveloping with a cloud; hence, to render gloomy or sullen. One day too late, I fear me, noble lord, Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth. Shak. Be not disheartened, then, nor cloud those looks. Milton. Nothing clouds men's minds and impairs their honesty like prejudice. M.…

To council summons all his mighty peers, Within thick clouds and dark tenfold involved, A gloomy consistory. Milton.

Dejected; gloomy; sorrowful. [Obs.] "Dispel dampy throughts." Haywards.

Foreboding evil; gloomy; jealous; suspicious. More dark and dark our woes. Shak. A deep melancholy took possesion of him, and gave a dark tinge to all his views of human nature. Macaulay. There is, in every true woman-s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. W. Irving.…

Becoming dark or gloomy; frowing. His honest brows darkling as he looked towards me. Thackeray.

With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look. Looking darkly at the clerguman. Hawthorne.

Dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless. [Poetic] He brought him through a darksome narrow pass To a broad gate, all built of beaten gold. Spenser.

e vast sand plains of Asia and Africa are destitute and vegetation. A dreary desert and a gloomy waste. Pope.