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▪ I. frowning, vbl. n.|ˈfraʊnɪŋ|
[f. frown v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. frown; an instance of the same.
c1400Rom. Rose 4062 With that the cherl his clubbe gan shake, Frouning his eyen gan to make, And hidous chere. c1440Promp. Parv. 181/1 Frownynge. 1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke iii. 9 E vj, For bittur frounyng, godly ioye and lightenesse of herte. 1592W. Wyrley Armorie 145 With frownings dume, downe are his smilings cast. 1616J. Lane Cont. Sqr.'s T. x. 478 Turnes him fro, and nought but frowninges gave. 1713Swift Frenzy of J. Dennis Wks. 1755 III. i. 146 He read a page or two with much frowning. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 16 How pinch'd with winter's frownings he has been. 1872Darwin Emotions ix. 224 We may conclude that frowning is not the expression of simple reflection..but of something difficult or displeasing encountered.
▪ II. frowning, ppl. a.|ˈfraʊnɪŋ|
[f. frown v. + -ing2.]
That frowns; gloomy; stern; disapproving, threatening.
c1386Chaucer Clerk's T. 300 And eke whan I say ya, ye say not nay, Neither by word ne frouning countenance: Swere this, and here I swere our alliance. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems 245 Now frownyng cheer, now fressh of visage. 1567Turberv. To a Gentlewoman from whome he tooke a Ring 1 What needes this frowning face? 1659D. Pell Impr. Sea 377 A frowning, raging, and rowling storm. 1736Neal Hist. Purit. III. 520 The General Assembly..sent at the same time two frowning letters. 1822B. Cornwall Poems, Modena, And o'er her many a frowning fold Of crimson shades her closed eyes. 1847A. M. Gilliam Trav. Mexico 20 The frowning guns of the Castle. 1862H. Marryat Year in Sweden II. 402 A deep ravine of frowning rocks.
b. attrib. in † frowning cloth, an imaginary frontlet supposed to be worn by a person when displeased.
1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 285 The gallery, where shee was solitaryly walking, with her frowning cloth, as sick lately of the solens. |