Verb

(head)

(lour)

Verb

(en verb)

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

And all the clouds that lowr'd vpon our hou?e

* 1922 , , IX, lines 21-22

If here to-day the cloud of thunder lours

To-morrow it will hie on far behests;

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* 1922 , , IX, lines 21-22

If here to-day the cloud of thunder lours

To-morrow it will hie on far behests;

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To frown; to look sullen.

* (rfdate) John Dryden:

But sullen discontent sat lowering on her face.