glooming

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glooming - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Glooming \Gloom"ing\, n. [Cf. Gloaming.]
     Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming.
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           When the faint glooming in the sky
           First lightened into day.                --Trench.
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           The balmy glooming, crescent-lit.        --Tennyson.
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  Gloom \Gloom\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gloomed; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Glooming.]
     1. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
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     2. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or
        sad; to come to the evening twilight.
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              The black gibbet glooms beside the way. --Goldsmith.
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              [This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom.
                                                    --Spenser.
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glooming - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  glooming
      adj 1: depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming
             interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic" [syn:
             glooming, gloomy, gloomful, sulky]