▪ I. gloam, n. rare.
(gləʊm)
[Back-formation from gloaming.]
Twilight, gloaming.
| a 1821 Keats La Belle Dame sans merci x, I saw their starved lips in the gloam, With horrid warning gaped wide. 1881 Rossetti Ball. & Sonnets 85 And blithe is Honfleur's echoing gloam When mothers call the children home. |
▪ II. gloam, v. Chiefly Sc.
(gləʊm)
[f. as prec.]
intr. To darken, become dusk. Also to be gloamed: to have grown dusk.
| 1819 Rennie St. Patrick I. xi. 166 By this time, it was turn't gayan gloam't. 1825–80 Jamieson, It gloams, twilight comes on, Aberd. 1847 Tait's Mag. XIV. 176 When purple evening gloameth. 1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xl. (1873) 223 An' ye cudna expeck fowk hame fae a mairriage afore it war weel gloam't. 1876 Mid Yorksh. Gloss. s.v., I must be going homewards before it gloams. |