Crossword clues for lour
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lour \Lour\, n. [Native name.] (Zo["o]l.) An Asiatic sardine ( Clupea Neohowii), valued for its oil.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to frown," late 13c. variant of lower (v.2). Related: Loured; louring.
Wiktionary
alt. (context intransitive English) To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest. vb. (context intransitive English) To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
WordNet
Usage examples of "lour".
The flesh was torn in places, and was now beginning to disco lour His jaw stiffened, even as his heart melted with pity.
To their right, the distant heads of the western mountains were sometimes glimpsed, plum and blue and gray, or covered in the lour of clouds.
He could feel nothing, sense nothing but the chill lour that had prickled his hair all day.
Full Male from Akiel, standing with lour feet planted firmly, big hairy hands knotted into fists resting on the forepart of the barrel-shaped body, neck turretlike stiffly erect, eyes fixed unblinkingly on the chronometer.
He ceased at last in exhaustion, and a low murmuring noise was heard within the body of the statue: thrice the head moved, and the lips parted, and then a hollow voice uttered these mystic words: There are waves like chargers that meet and glow, There are graves ready wrought in the rocks below, On the brow of the future the dangers lour, But blest are your barks in the fearful hour.
Feshnavat and Shibli Bagarag, feared greatly being left with the Genie, for he became all colours, and loured on them each time that he ceased sneezing.
The storm had burnt itself out and the wind had fallen, but the louring sky shed little light and the rain still descended with a relentless malevolence.
Darkness now rose, As daylight sunk, and brought in louring Night, Her shadowy offspring, unsubstantial both, Privation mere of light and absent day.
The great cloud was still louring black and threatening on the far horizon, but I no longer felt afraid of it--I felt only an inexpressibly pleasant hopefulness in proportion, as trust in life replaced the late burden of fear.
Removing his woolly hat, presumably out of respect for the dead, the old man looked up at the louring sky.
The light and shimmer of that patch contrasted sharply with the heavy pink cloud which lay massed above a young birch-tree visible on the horizon before us, while, a little further to the right, the parti-coloured roofs of the Kuntsevo mansion could be seen projecting above a belt of trees and undergrowth--one side of them reflecting the glittering rays of the sun, and the other side harmonising with the more louring portion of the heavens.
Victor suspended operations with the handkerchief to bend upon his tormentor a louring, distrustful stare.
Sofia, pausing unseen and unsuspected in the darkness just outside the doorway, could see him slouching deep in his chair, to one side of the table, his soft fat hands deep in the pockets of his trousers, his chin sunken on his chest, something dogged in the louring frown which he was bending upon nothing, something of genuine indifference in his passive attitude toward the blowsy virago who was leaning across the table the better to spit vituperation at him.
The small motion of his fingers took in the louring silence of the night.
The terrible silence of the Vale of the Dark returned to her, the heaviness of the vaporous air and the louring sense of being watched.