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gloam⋅ing

  [gloh-ming]
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–noun
twilight; dusk.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME gloming, OE glōmung, deriv. of glōm twilight
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gloam·ing   (glō'mĭng)   
n.  Twilight; dusk.

[Middle English gloming, from Old English glōmung, alteration (probably influenced by æfnung, evening) of glōm, dusk; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.]
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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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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gloaming 
O.E. glomung, formed (probably on model of æfning "evening") from glom "twilight," related to glowan "to glow," hence "glow of sunrise or sunset," from P.Gmc. *glo- (see glow). Fell from currency except in Yorkshire dialect, but preserved in Scotland and reintroduced by Burns and other Scottish writers after 1785.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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