What is "glooming"

Glooming \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.

Gloom \Gloom\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gloomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Glooming.]

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.
   --Goldsmith.

   [This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom.
   --Spenser.

Etymology 1 vb. (present participle of gloom English) Etymology 2

n. twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming

adj. depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic" [syn: gloomy, gloomful]