gloom
Darkness, dimness, or obscurity.
A depressing, despondent, or melancholic atmosphere.
A sudden little river crossed my path / As unexpected as a serpent comes. / No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms— / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof—to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes.
Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits.
A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture.
To be dark.
Here, while the proud their long drawn pomps display, / There the black gibbet glooms beside the way.
To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.
To render dark; to obscure; to darken.
To make sad, dismal, or sullen.
To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
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