gloam

3 definitions found

gloam - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Gloam \Gloam\, v. i. [See Gloom, Glum.]
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     1. To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky.
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     2. To be sullen or morose. [Obs.]
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  Gloam \Gloam\, n.
     The twilight; gloaming. [R.] --Keats.
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gloam - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  gloam
      n 1: the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the
           twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn:
           twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall,
           evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle]