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▪ I. glower, n. Chiefly Sc.|ˈglaʊə(r)|
For forms see the vb.
[f. glower v.]
The action of glowering; a fixed and intent look; an open-eyed gaze or stare. Also, a glower of (something).
1715Pennecuik Poems 22 Every Glour they give would fright a Coward. 1786Burns Interv. with Ld. Daer iv, To show Sir Bardy's willyart glowr. ― Winter Night i, When Phœbus gies a short-liv'd glow'r Far south the lift. 1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 240 Let me hae anither glower o' my galloping goddess. 1859J. Brown Rab & F. (1862) 20 James..gave him [the mastiff] a glower from time to time, and an intimation of a possible kick.
▪ II. glower, v.|ˈglaʊə(r)|
Forms: 6 glowir, 6–8 glowr, 6, 8–9 glour, 8 glowre, glow'r, 9– glower.
[Of obscure etymology: in sense the word agrees with glore v. 2, but the difference in vowel is against its immediate identity with this. It may possibly be f. glow v.2 + -er5.]
1. intr. Sc. To stare with wide-open eyes; to gaze intently or with an air of surprise. Also to glower at, over.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xlix. 24 On gallow treis Ȝitt dois he glowir. Ibid. lxxv. 19 As ane gaist I glour and grane, I trymble sa, ȝe will not trow. 1535Lyndesay Satyre 136 He glowris, euin as he war agast, Or fleyit of ane gaist. a1550Freiris Berwik 350 in Dunbar's Poems (1893) 297 He granit, and he glowrit, as he wer woid. a1605Montgomerie Flyting w. Polwart 399 Some glowring to the ground; some grieuouslie gaipe. 1711Ramsay Elegy M. Johnston 32 Fou closs we us'd to drink and rant Until we did baith glow'r and gaunt. 1724― Tea-t. Misc., Katy's Answer i, My mither's ay glowran o'er me Tho' she did the same before me. 1725― Gentle Sheph. i. i. sang i, Upon a dyke I lean'd, glowring about. 1785Burns Holy Fair ii, As lightsomely I glowr'd abroad, To see a scene so gay. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. x, I never ask what brings the Laird of Dumbiedikes glowering here like a wull-cat. 1869Gibbon Robin Gray ix, ‘What are ye glowering at, laddie’, said his mother. 1885R. Buchanan Annan Water xiv, Why do you glower at me like that.
quasi-trans.a1665W. Guthrie Serm. (1709) 7 (Jam.) There the poor men stood gazing and glowring out their eyne, to behold the place where he ascended.
transf.1785Burns Death & Dr. Hornb. iv, The rising moon began to glowr The distant Cumnock hills out-owre.
2. To look angrily or crossly; to scowl. Also dial. of the weather: To be gloomy.
This sense is perh. partly due to misapprehension of the meaning of glower in Scottish writers, but may also be based on the English dialect use, which appears to be genuine.
1775F. Burney Early Diary 4 Mar. ‘But’, added he, drily, ‘I did not. Well, Bell, what do you glow'r at?’ a1791Pegge Derbicisms 102 Glowres, is dull or lowering. 1822T. L. Peacock Maid Marian 177 The baron glowered about him with an expression of countenance that shewed he was mortally wroth with somebody. 1841Lever C. O'Malley lxxxviii, The M'Nab and the Englishman.. sat glowering at each other like twa tigers. 1857Trollope Barchester T. (1861) 315 Mr. Slope saw it, and glowered with jealousy. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. xv. (1889) 146 Don't sit glowering as if you had swallowed a furze bush. 1885Pall Mall G. 2 Jan. 2/1 They had nothing to show but..Europe glowering upon us with hate. 1886Chester Gloss., Glour or Glower, to have a cross look. ‘When the clouds threaten bad weather we call them glowering.’ W.
Hence ˈglowering vbl. n. Also ˈglowerer, one who glowers, an idle gazer.
1715Sir. J. Clerk Mem. (1895) 86 He called to a friend..next his bed, that if hee pleased the Glourers might come in, meaning the Gasers, and such who rather out of curiosity than sympathy..attend the sick till their breath go out. 1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 132 A' thae things..justifies the leddies to a certain extent o' their glowerin.
▪ III. glower(e
obs. form of glover. |