Gloom | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Glōōm, n.

noun

n. [O. Eng. glome, glombe, Scot. gloum; A-S. glōm, gloom, glōmung, glommung, twilight, Prov. Ger. glūm, glumm, glumig, gloomy, troubled, not clear. Cf. GLUM and GLOAM.]

Sense 1. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or the gloom of midnight.

Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks. Tennyson.

Sense 2. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; also, sullenness; as, a gloom overspreads the mind.

Synonyms—Darkness; dimness; obscurity; heaviness; dullness; depression; melancholy; dejection; sadness. See DARKNESS.

Glōōm, v. i.

verbintransitive

[imp. & p. p. GLOOMED; p. pr. & vb. n. GLOOMING.] 1. To shine obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer. 2. To appear dark, dismal, gloomy, or sad. “Now glooming sadly.” Spencer.

Glōōm, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. 1. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.

A bow-window . . . gloomed with limes which shade half each window. H. Walpole.

A black yew gloomed the stagnant air. Tennyson.

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

Such a mood as that which lately gloomed Your fancy. Tennyson.