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lours

lours is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lour.

Meaning of lour

Verb

lour (third-person singular simple present lours, present participle louring, simple past and past participle loured)

  1. (intransitive) To frown; to look sullen.
    • [...] Juno took her place:
      But ſullen Diſcontent ſat lowring on her Face.1700, [John] Dryden, “Homer’s Ilias”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, book I, page 215
    Synonyms:
    glower, scowl
  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.c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC...

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Lours is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lour.

Words near lours in the dictionary

  1. louries
  2. louring
  3. louringly
  4. lourings
  5. louris
  6. lours
  7. loury
  8. Lous
  9. Lousame
  10. louse
  11. louse around

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