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Gloomy; dismal; foreboding. Milton. Solemn hymns so sullen dirges change. Shak.

Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen.

Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.

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. Arn…

Indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenness, or ill-nature; not open or cheerful. "A cloudy countenance." Shak.

To match one's self against; to meet; to encounter. I love to cope him in these sullen fits. Shak. They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down. Shak.

Sullen; morose. [Obs. or R.] The sulky spite of a temper naturally dogged. Sir W. Scott.

In a dogged manner; sullenly; with obstinate resolution.

Sullenness; moroseness. [R.]

Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen. [R.] Dryden.

Sullen or discontented. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

which is about to happen; to augur despondingly. His heart forebodes a mystery. Tennyson. Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Cæsar's death. Middleton. I have a sort of foreboding about him. H. James.

To be sullen or morose. [Obs.]

Sullenness; melancholy. [Obs.] J. Still.

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

Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness. A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits. Burke.

To pout; to look sullen. [Obs.] Garth.

Sullenness. [Obs.] Skelton.

In a glum manner; sullenly; moodily.

Moodiness; sullenness.