Gloom

Gloom (gl?m), n. [AS. glōm twilight, from the root of E. glow. See Glow, and cf. Glum, Gloam.]

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

2. A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.

Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks.

3. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.

A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits.

4. In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.

Syn. -- Darkness; dimness; obscurity; heaviness; dullness; depression; melancholy; dejection; sadness. See Darkness.

Gloom, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gloomed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Glooming.] 1. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

2. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.

The black gibbet glooms beside the way.

[This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom.

Gloom, v. t. 1. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.

A bow window . . . gloomed with limes.

A black yew gloomed the stagnant air.

2. To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.

Such a mood as that which lately gloomed
Your fancy.

What sorrows gloomed that parting day.