Gloaming

WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005)
gloaming n 1: the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn: twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle]

Oxford English Reference Dictionary
gloaming
n. poet. twilight; dusk.
Etymology: OE glomung f. glom twilight, rel. to GLOW


English Explanatory Dictionary
gloaming ˈɡləumɪŋ n. poet. twilight; dusk. [OE glomung f. glom twilight, rel. to GLOW]


Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations
Gloaming Late, late in a gloamin, when all was still, When the fringe was red on the westlin hill, The wood was sere, the moon i' the wane, The reek o' the cot hung over the plain-- Like a little wee cloud in the world its lane; When the ingle lowed with an eiry leme, Late, late in the gloamin Kilmeny came hame! JAMES HOGG: Kilmeny.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Gloaming \Gloam"ing\, n. [See Gloom.] 1. Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening. [Scot. & North of Eng., and in poetry.] --Hogg. 2. Sullenness; melancholy. [Obs.] J. Still.

Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms
gloaming n. Twilight, dusk, fall of evening, eventide, nightfall.


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
39 Moby Thesaurus words for "gloaming": bad light, brown of dusk, brownness, candlelight, candlelighting, cocklight, crepuscule, darkishness, darksomeness, deadness, dim, dim light, dimness, dimpsy, drabness, dullness, dusk, duskiness, duskingtide, duskness, eventide, flatness, gloam, glooming, half-light, lack of sparkle, lackluster, lifelessness, lusterlessness, mat, mat finish, murk, murkiness, nightfall, owllight, partial darkness, semidark, somberness, twilight