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Glower

//ˈɡlaʊə(ɹ)// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An angry glare or stare.

    "She sure has an awful glower on her face."

  2. 2
    That which glows or emits light.

    "Table 45 presents computed relative and absolute values for the spectral radiant emittance of a Nernst glower at T = 1965 and 2000°K (the corresponding emissivities are 0.427 and 0.438)."

  3. 3
    an angry stare wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To look or stare with anger. intransitive

    "[...] 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: [...]"

  2. 2
    look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval wordnet
  3. 3
    look at with a fixed gaze wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From an alteration (possibly Scots) of glore, from Middle English glōren, glouren (“to gleam; to glare, glower”); or from glow (“to stare”) (obsolete), and ultimately from a Scandinavian (North Germanic) language. Cognate with Low German gloren (“to flicker; to glimmer”), Dutch gloren, Icelandic glóra. Equivalent to glow + -er (a fossilized frequentative suffix). See more at glare.

Etymology 2

From an alteration (possibly Scots) of glore, from Middle English glōren, glouren (“to gleam; to glare, glower”); or from glow (“to stare”) (obsolete), and ultimately from a Scandinavian (North Germanic) language. Cognate with Low German gloren (“to flicker; to glimmer”), Dutch gloren, Icelandic glóra. Equivalent to glow + -er (a fossilized frequentative suffix). See more at glare.

Etymology 3

From Middle English glouere, equivalent to glow + -er.

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