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   Gloom (glo͞om), n. [AS. glōm twilight, from the root of E. glow. See Glow, and cf. Glum, Gloam.]
   
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   1. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, “the gloom of a forest, or of midnight”.
   
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   2. A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.
   
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   Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks. Tennyson .
   
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   3. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
   
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   A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits. Burke.
   
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   4. In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.
   
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   Syn. -- Darkness; dimness; obscurity; heaviness; dullness; depression; melancholy; dejection; sadness. See Darkness.
   
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   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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   Gloom, v. t.
   1. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
   
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   A bow window . . . gloomed with limes. Walpole.
   
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   A black yew gloomed the stagnant air. Tennyson.
   
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   2. To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
   
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   Such a mood as that which lately gloomed
   
   Your fancy. Tennison.
   
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   What sorrows gloomed that parting day. Goldsmith.
   
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