glooming

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of gloom

noun

1. Twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming.

   “When the faint glooming in the sky / First lightened into day”

   “[T]he balmy glooming, crescent-lit, / Spread the light haze along the river-shores, / And in the hollows; […]”

2. Gloomy behaviour; melancholy.

   “What devil, woman! pluck up your heart, and leave off all this glooming.”