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glour

glour is the alternative spelling of glower.

Meaning of glower

Verb

glower (third-person singular simple present glowers, present participle glowering, simple past and past participle glowered)

  1. (intransitive) To look or stare with anger.
    • [...] Last Morning I was unco airly out, / Upon a Dyke I lean'd and glowr'd about; / I ſaw my Meg come linkan o'er the Lee, / I ſaw my Meg, but Maggie ſaw na me: [...][1720?], [Allan Ramsay], Patie and Roger: A Pastoral Inscribed to Josiah Burchet Esq; Secretary of the Admiralty, [Edinburgh?]: [Thomas Ruddiman for the author?], →OCLC, page 9
    Synonyms:
    lour

See all 3 meanings of glower

Forms of glour

third-person singular presentglours
present participleglouring
past participlegloured
pastgloured

Origin of glour

Regarding the spelling glour/glower, compare lour/lower.

Questions about glour

What is glour the alternative spelling of?
Glour is the alternative spelling of glower.

Words near glour in the dictionary

  1. Gloucestershire
  2. Glouchevitch
  3. Glouchevitchs
  4. Gloucs.
  5. Glounthaune
  6. glour
  7. gloured
  8. glouring
  9. glours
  10. glout
  11. glouted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: glour (page history and authors); glower (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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