A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1499-1500, 1640-1645
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Glowm-, Gloum-, Glooming, ppl. a. [ME. glowmynge (c 1440).] Frowning, scowling. —a1500 Henr. Fab. (1621) 233.
With a glouming brow 1640 Lithgow Poet. Rem. 252.
Thy rammage looke And glooming browes 1640 Baillie I. 272.
His Lordship, with a proud glouming countenance, makes towards his place at the boord-head 1645 Ib. II. 295.
Remembering my service to your … Lady, and her glowming sonne
