lour

verb

1. (intransitive)To frown; to look sullen.

   “[...] Juno took her place: But ſullen Diſcontent ſat lowring on her Face.”

   “And solace sought he none from priest nor leech, / And soon the same in movement and in speech, / As heretofore he fill'd the passing hours, / Nor less he smiles, nor more his forehead lours / Than these were wont; [...]”

   “Their lank black hair hung round their black visages; and the only points of relief in the wild countenance which loured from under their strange head-dresses, were the dark, piercing eyes, and the white teeth.”

2. (figuratively, intransitive)To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; of the sky: to be covered with dark and threatening clouds; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.

   “Now is the winter of our diſcontent, Made glorious ſummer by this ſonne of Yorke: And all the cloudes that lowrd vpon our houſe, In the deepe boſome of the Ocean buried.”

   “And with them comes a third of Regal port, / But faded ſplendor wan; who by his gate / And fierce demeanour ſeems the Prince of Hell, / Not likely to part hence without conteſt; / Stand firm, for in his look defiance lours.”

   “The Dawn is over-caſt, the Morning low’rs, And heavily in Clouds brings on the Day, […]”

   “Weather in Auguſt, 1787. [...] dark, louring, cool, briſk ſhower.”

   “The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour; but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.”

noun

1. A frown, a scowl; an angry or sullen look.

   “I have ſuch averſion to ill temper, that I could ſooner forgive my wife adultery, than croſſneſs. I cannot taſte Caſſio's kiſs on her lips; but I can ſee a lour on her brow.”

2. (figuratively)Of the sky, the weather, etc.: a dark, gloomy, and threatening appearance.