gloamingn.

Brit.

/ˈɡləʊmɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈɡloʊmɪŋ/

Forms: Old English glómung, ( ǽfen-)glommung, Middle English glomyng, Middle English–1600s gloming, 1700s– gloaming.

Etymology: representing Old English glómung strong feminine, < (on the analogy of ǽfning evening n.¹, adv., and int.) glóm twilight, probably < the Germanic root *glô- (see glow n.); the etymological sense would thus seem to be the ‘glow’ of sunset or sunrise (compare gloom n.²), whence the passage to the recorded sense is not difficult. The vowel of the modern gloaming is anomalous, as Old English glómung should normally become glooming. The explanation probably is that the ó was shortened in the compound ǽfen-glommung (as the spelling seems to show was actually the case), and that from this compound there was evolved a new noun glŏmung, which by normal phonetic development became Middle English glǭming, modern English gloaming. In the literary language the word is a comparatively recent adoption from Scottish writers; but it is found in the dialect of Mid. Yorkshire.

a. Evening twilight.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > twilight, dusk, or nightfall

nighteOE

evengloamOE

eveningOE

gloamingc1000

darknessa1382

twilighting1387

crepusculum1398

crepusculec1400

darkc1400

twilight1412

sky1515

twinlightc1532

day-going?1552

cockshut1592

shutting1598

blind man's holiday1599

candle-lighting1605

gropsing1606

nightfall1612

dusk1622

torchlighta1656

candlelight1663

crepuscle1665

shut1667

mock-shade1669

close1696

duskish1696

glooma1699

setting1699

dimmit1746

to-fall of the day or night1748

darklins1767

even-close1781

mirkning1790

gloaming-shot1793

darkening1814

bat-flying time1818

gloama1821

between-light1821

settle1822

dayfall1823

evenfall1825

onfall1825

owl-hoot1832

glooming1842

darkfall1884

smokefall1936

dusk-light1937

the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine > twilight > glow of sunset or evening twilight

gloamingc1000

twilight1412

setting sun1560

aftershine1834

afterglow1848

sundown1850

afterlight1923

c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 117/7 Crepusculum, glomung.

c1000 in J. Stevenson Lat. Hymns Anglo-Saxon Church (1851) 16 Crepusculum mens nesciat, æfen glommunge mod nyte.

c1425 Wyntoun Cron. iv. vii. 827 Fra the glomyng off the nycht.

c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. ix. xxv. f. 128^v/2 He..efter supper past furth in y^e glomyng.

c1610 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. III. 3 This fell furth in the gloming.

1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs xxxv, in Poems 21 By this, the sun was out o' sight, An' darker gloamin brought the night.

c1800 J. Hogg When the Kye comes Hame in Songs Ettrick Shepherd (1831) 52 'Tween the gloaming and the mirk, When the kye comes hame.

1807 Ld. Byron Elegy Newstead Abbey ix Soon as the gloaming spreads her waving shade.

1830 Ld. Tennyson Leonine Elegiacs Lowflowing breezes are roaming the broad valley dimmed in the gloaming.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. Introd. 2 The happy outside passenger seated on the box from the dawn to the gloaming [etc.].

figurative.1786 R. Burns Poems 73 When ance life's day draws near the gloamin.1889 J. M. Barrie Window in Thrums xvi. 144 The help she and Hendry needed in the gloaming of their lives.

b. Said occasionally of morning twilight.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [noun]

aristc825

dawingc900

dayeOE

day-rimOE

day-redOE

mornOE

lightOE

lightingOE

dawning1297

day-rowa1300

grekinga1300

uprista1300

dayninga1325

uprisingc1330

sun arisingc1350

springc1380

springingc1380

day-springa1382

morrowingc1384

dayingc1400

daylighta1425

upspring1471

aurora1483

sky1515

orienta1522

breaking of the day1523

daybreak1530

day-peep1530

morrow dayc1530

peep of the morning1530

prick of the day?1533

morning1535

day-breaking1565

creek1567

sunup1572

breach of the day1579

break of day or morn1584

peep of day1587

uprise1594

dawna1616

day-dawn1616

peep of dawn1751

strike of day1790

skreigh1802

sunbreak1822

day-daw1823

screech1829

dayclean1835

sun dawn1835

first light1838

morning-red1843

piccaninny sun1846

piccaninny daylightc1860

gloaming1873

glooming1877

sparrow-fart1886

crack1887

sun-spring1900

piccaninny dawn1936

the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine > light of dawn

sunrisingc1275

sun arisingc1350

sunrise1440

twilightc1440

sunbreak1822

gloaming1873

1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab iii. 38 The sun had scarcely cast the gloaming of approaching dawn over the eastern peaks.

1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders 21 I rowed home in the gloaming of the morning.

c. Shade, dusky light.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > darkness or gloom > [noun]

thicknessc1000

dusknessa1382

umbraclec1500

duskishness1541

sadness1601

duskiness1611

gloominess1611

opacity1611

gloom1645

shadowinessa1672

dusk1700

brown1729

gloaming1832

bat-light1871

dreich1928

1832 W. Motherwell Jeanie Morrison vii And in the gloamin o' the wood, The throssil whusslit sweet.

Compounds

C1. attributive (in some instances passing into adj.), as gloaming-fall, gloaming-hour, gloaming-sight, gloaming-sky, gloaming starlight.

ΚΠ

1788 E. Picken Poems & Epist. 176 Gin gloamin hours reek't Eben's haun.

a1810 R. Tannahill Midges Dance in Poems (1846) 114 Beneath the golden gloaming sky, The mavis mends her lay.

1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 8 401 A cannie hour at gloaming-fa' under the hazel bower birks.

1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons II. iv. v. 67 Even I..grow hungered in these cool gloaming hours.

1856 H. B. Stowe Dred ii. xii. 125 The gloaming starlight was just sufficient to show him that all was desolate.

C2.

gloaming-shot n. (a) a shot in the twilight (in quot. figurative); (b) the beginning of twilight.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > twilight, dusk, or nightfall

nighteOE

evengloamOE

eveningOE

gloamingc1000

darknessa1382

twilighting1387

crepusculum1398

crepusculec1400

darkc1400

twilight1412

sky1515

twinlightc1532

day-going?1552

cockshut1592

shutting1598

blind man's holiday1599

candle-lighting1605

gropsing1606

nightfall1612

dusk1622

torchlighta1656

candlelight1663

crepuscle1665

shut1667

mock-shade1669

close1696

duskish1696

glooma1699

setting1699

dimmit1746

to-fall of the day or night1748

darklins1767

even-close1781

mirkning1790

gloaming-shot1793

darkening1814

bat-flying time1818

gloama1821

between-light1821

settle1822

dayfall1823

evenfall1825

onfall1825

owl-hoot1832

glooming1842

darkfall1884

smokefall1936

dusk-light1937

1793 R. Burns Let. 28 Aug. (2003) II. 233 I once more roved out..yesterevening for a gloaming-shot at the Muse[s].

1796 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum V. 428 At gloamin-shote it was, I wat, I lighted on the Monday.

gloaming sight n. a front sight specially adapted for evening shooting.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > sight > types of

dispart1578

telescopic sight1674

plain sight1686

aim-frontlet1745

hausse1787

foresight1806

gloaming sight1817

night-sight1822

bead1831

leaf1832

backsight1847

globe sight1847

pendulum hausse1850

hindsight1851

tangent scale1859

tangent1861

tangent backsight1862

training pendulum1862

training level1863

peep sight1866

dispart-sight1867

notch sight1867

buck-horn1877

orthoptic1881

aperturea1884

pinball-sighta1884

dispart patch1884

sight bar1884

flap-sight1887

barley-corn1896

ring sight1901

riflescope1902

spotting scope1904

tangent sight1908

Aldis sight1918

wind-sight1923

scope sight1934

gyro-sight1942

1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. viii. 158 He has a gloaming sight o' what's reasonable..a glisk and nae mair.

1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 15 Sept. 925/1 New gloaming sight for guns and rifles.

1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 639 Gloaming sights for rifles... Specially adapted for evening sport.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	gloaming
释义	gloamingn. Brit. /ˈɡləʊmɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈɡloʊmɪŋ/ Forms: Old English glómung, ( ǽfen-)glommung, Middle English glomyng, Middle English–1600s gloming, 1700s– gloaming. Etymology: representing Old English glómung strong feminine, < (on the analogy of ǽfning evening n.¹, adv., and int.) glóm twilight, probably < the Germanic root glô- (see glow n.); the etymological sense would thus seem to be the ‘glow’ of sunset or sunrise (compare gloom n.²), whence the passage to the recorded sense is not difficult. The vowel of the modern gloaming* is anomalous, as Old English glómung should normally become glooming. The explanation probably is that the ó was shortened in the compound ǽfen-glommung (as the spelling seems to show was actually the case), and that from this compound there was evolved a new noun glŏmung, which by normal phonetic development became Middle English glǭming, modern English gloaming. In the literary language the word is a comparatively recent adoption from Scottish writers; but it is found in the dialect of Mid. Yorkshire. a. Evening twilight. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > twilight, dusk, or nightfall nighteOE evengloamOE eveningOE gloamingc1000 darknessa1382 twilighting1387 crepusculum1398 crepusculec1400 darkc1400 twilight1412 sky1515 twinlightc1532 day-going?1552 cockshut1592 shutting1598 blind man's holiday1599 candle-lighting1605 gropsing1606 nightfall1612 dusk1622 torchlighta1656 candlelight1663 crepuscle1665 shut1667 mock-shade1669 close1696 duskish1696 glooma1699 setting1699 dimmit1746 to-fall of the day or night1748 darklins1767 even-close1781 mirkning1790 gloaming-shot1793 darkening1814 bat-flying time1818 gloama1821 between-light1821 settle1822 dayfall1823 evenfall1825 onfall1825 owl-hoot1832 glooming1842 darkfall1884 smokefall1936 dusk-light1937 the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine > twilight > glow of sunset or evening twilight gloamingc1000 twilight1412 setting sun1560 aftershine1834 afterglow1848 sundown1850 afterlight1923 c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 117/7 Crepusculum, glomung. c1000 in J. Stevenson Lat. Hymns Anglo-Saxon Church (1851) 16 Crepusculum mens nesciat, æfen glommunge mod nyte. c1425 Wyntoun Cron. iv. vii. 827 Fra the glomyng off the nycht. c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. ix. xxv. f. 128^v/2 He..efter supper past furth in y^e glomyng. c1610 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. III. 3 This fell furth in the gloming. 1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs xxxv, in Poems 21 By this, the sun was out o' sight, An' darker gloamin brought the night. c1800 J. Hogg When the Kye comes Hame in Songs Ettrick Shepherd (1831) 52 'Tween the gloaming and the mirk, When the kye comes hame. 1807 Ld. Byron Elegy Newstead Abbey ix Soon as the gloaming spreads her waving shade. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Leonine Elegiacs Lowflowing breezes are roaming the broad valley dimmed in the gloaming. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. Introd. 2 The happy outside passenger seated on the box from the dawn to the gloaming [etc.]. figurative.1786 R. Burns Poems 73 When ance life's day draws near the gloamin.1889 J. M. Barrie Window in Thrums xvi. 144 The help she and Hendry needed in the gloaming of their lives. b. Said occasionally of morning twilight. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [noun] aristc825 dawingc900 dayeOE day-rimOE day-redOE mornOE lightOE lightingOE dawning1297 day-rowa1300 grekinga1300 uprista1300 dayninga1325 uprisingc1330 sun arisingc1350 springc1380 springingc1380 day-springa1382 morrowingc1384 dayingc1400 daylighta1425 upspring1471 aurora1483 sky1515 orienta1522 breaking of the day1523 daybreak1530 day-peep1530 morrow dayc1530 peep of the morning1530 prick of the day?1533 morning1535 day-breaking1565 creek1567 sunup1572 breach of the day1579 break of day or morn1584 peep of day1587 uprise1594 dawna1616 day-dawn1616 peep of dawn1751 strike of day1790 skreigh1802 sunbreak1822 day-daw1823 screech1829 dayclean1835 sun dawn1835 first light1838 morning-red1843 piccaninny sun1846 piccaninny daylightc1860 gloaming1873 glooming1877 sparrow-fart1886 crack1887 sun-spring1900 piccaninny dawn1936 the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine > light of dawn sunrisingc1275 sun arisingc1350 sunrise1440 twilightc1440 sunbreak1822 gloaming1873 1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab iii. 38 The sun had scarcely cast the gloaming of approaching dawn over the eastern peaks. 1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders 21 I rowed home in the gloaming of the morning. c. Shade, dusky light. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > darkness or gloom > [noun] thicknessc1000 dusknessa1382 umbraclec1500 duskishness1541 sadness1601 duskiness1611 gloominess1611 opacity1611 gloom1645 shadowinessa1672 dusk1700 brown1729 gloaming1832 bat-light1871 dreich1928 1832 W. Motherwell Jeanie Morrison vii And in the gloamin o' the wood, The throssil whusslit sweet. Compounds C1. attributive (in some instances passing into adj.), as gloaming-fall, gloaming-hour, gloaming-sight, gloaming-sky, gloaming starlight. ΚΠ 1788 E. Picken Poems & Epist. 176 Gin gloamin hours reek't Eben's haun. a1810 R. Tannahill Midges Dance in Poems (1846) 114 Beneath the golden gloaming sky, The mavis mends her lay. 1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 8 401 A cannie hour at gloaming-fa' under the hazel bower birks. 1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons II. iv. v. 67 Even I..grow hungered in these cool gloaming hours. 1856 H. B. Stowe Dred ii. xii. 125 The gloaming starlight was just sufficient to show him that all was desolate. C2. gloaming-shot n. (a) a shot in the twilight (in quot. figurative); (b) the beginning of twilight. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > twilight, dusk, or nightfall nighteOE evengloamOE eveningOE gloamingc1000 darknessa1382 twilighting1387 crepusculum1398 crepusculec1400 darkc1400 twilight1412 sky1515 twinlightc1532 day-going?1552 cockshut1592 shutting1598 blind man's holiday1599 candle-lighting1605 gropsing1606 nightfall1612 dusk1622 torchlighta1656 candlelight1663 crepuscle1665 shut1667 mock-shade1669 close1696 duskish1696 glooma1699 setting1699 dimmit1746 to-fall of the day or night1748 darklins1767 even-close1781 mirkning1790 gloaming-shot1793 darkening1814 bat-flying time1818 gloama1821 between-light1821 settle1822 dayfall1823 evenfall1825 onfall1825 owl-hoot1832 glooming1842 darkfall1884 smokefall1936 dusk-light1937 1793 R. Burns Let. 28 Aug. (2003) II. 233 I once more roved out..yesterevening for a gloaming-shot at the Muse[s]. 1796 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum V. 428 At gloamin-shote it was, I wat, I lighted on the Monday. gloaming sight n. a front sight specially adapted for evening shooting. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > sight > types of dispart1578 telescopic sight1674 plain sight1686 aim-frontlet1745 hausse1787 foresight1806 gloaming sight1817 night-sight1822 bead1831 leaf1832 backsight1847 globe sight1847 pendulum hausse1850 hindsight1851 tangent scale1859 tangent1861 tangent backsight1862 training pendulum1862 training level1863 peep sight1866 dispart-sight1867 notch sight1867 buck-horn1877 orthoptic1881 aperturea1884 pinball-sighta1884 dispart patch1884 sight bar1884 flap-sight1887 barley-corn1896 ring sight1901 riflescope1902 spotting scope1904 tangent sight1908 Aldis sight1918 wind-sight1923 scope sight1934 gyro-sight1942 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. viii. 158 He has a gloaming sight o' what's reasonable..a glisk and nae mair. 1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 15 Sept. 925/1 New gloaming sight for guns and rifles. 1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 639 Gloaming sights for rifles... Specially adapted for evening sport. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1000
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