Gloom
Gloom (glom) , noun
[Anglo-Saxon glōm twilight, from the root of English glow. See Glow, and compare 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.
Gloom , intransitive verb
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 , transitive verb
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.