Lour vs Loun - What's the difference?
lour | loun |
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.
* 1623 [1593] , (First Folio), act I, scene i
* 1922 , , IX, lines 21-22
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To frown; to look sullen.
* (rfdate) John Dryden:
As a verb lour
is 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.As a noun loun is
wage, pay.lour
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Alternative forms
*Verb
(en verb)- And all the clouds that lowr'd vpon our hou?e
- If here to-day the cloud of thunder lours
- To-morrow it will hie on far behests;
- If here to-day the cloud of thunder lours
- To-morrow it will hie on far behests;
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- But sullen discontent sat lowering on her face.