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A black yew gloomed the stagnant air.

Tennyson.

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

Such a mood as that which lately gloomed Your fancy.

Tennison.

What sorrows gloomed that parting day.

Goldsmith.

Gloom"i*ly (?), adv. In a gloomy manner.

Gloom"i*ness, n. State of being gloomy. Addison.

Gloom"ing, n. [Cf. Gloaming.] Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming.

When the faint glooming in the sky First lightened into day.

Trench.

The balmy glooming, crescent-lit.

Tennyson.

Gloomth (?), n. Gloom. [R.] Walpole.

Gloom"y (?), a. [Compar. Gloomier (?); superl. Gloomiest.] 1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton.

2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance.

Syn. -- Dark; dim; dusky; dismal; cloudy; moody; sullen; morose; melancholy; sad; downcast; depressed; dejected; disheartened.

Glop"pen (glp"pen), v. t. & i. [OE. glopnen to be frightened, frighten: cf. Icel. glpna to look downcast.] To surprise or astonish; to be startled or astonished. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Glore (?), v. i. [See Gloar.] To glare; to glower. [Obs.] Halliwell.

||Glo"ri*a (?), n. [L., glory.] (Eccl.) (a) A doxology (beginning ||Gloria Patri, Glory be to the Father), sung or said at the end of the ||Psalms in the service of the Roman Catholic and other churches. (b) A ||portion of the Mass (Gloria in Excelsis Deo, Glory be to God on ||high), and also of the communion service in some churches. In the ||Episcopal Church the version in English is used. (c) The musical ||setting of a gloria.

Glo`ri*a"tion (?), n. [L. gloriatio, from gloriari to glory, boast, fr. gloria glory. See Glory, n.] Boast; a triumphing. [Obs.] Bp. Richardson.

Internal gloriation or triumph of the mind.

Hobbes.

Glo"ried (?), a. [See Glory.] Illustrious; honorable; noble. [Obs.] Milton.

Glo`ri*fi*ca"tion (?), n. [L. glorificatio: cf. F. glorification. See Glorify.] 1. The act of glorifying or of giving glory to. Jer. Taylor.

2. The state of being glorifed; as, the glorification of Christ after his resurrection.

Glo"ri*fy (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Glorified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Glorifying.] [F. glorifier, L. glorificare; gloria glory + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See - fy.]