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   Gloom , n. [AS. glōm twilight, from the root of E. glow. See Glow, and cf. Glum, Gloam.]
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   Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.
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   A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.
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   Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks.
   Tennyson .
   
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   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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   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.]
   To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
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   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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3.       
   Gloom, v. t.
   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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   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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