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▪ I. loury, lowery, a.|ˈlaʊərɪ|
Also 7 lowry.
[f. lour n.1 + -y.]
Of the sky, etc.: Dull, gloomy, threatening.
1648J. Beaumont Psyche vii. xix, And in my wretched Beings lowry morn Dawn'd not eternal Night. Ibid. xvii. xxxii, But strait their Sunshine turn'd to lowry weather. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies i. xiii. 67, XXI 1 m. close, H. wd m. often lowry, some shedding o. 1735Dyche & Pardon Dict., Lowry, hazy, dull dark Weather, when the Air looks thick..and Rain is threatened. 1864D. G. Mitchell Sev. Stor. 39 The day was lowery. 1888Barrie Auld Licht Idylls xi. (1902) 84/1 Loury grew the sky.
▪ II. loury
obs. form of lowrie Sc. |