lour

English

Alternative forms

• lower

Etymology

Middle English louren.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /laʊɚ/

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.

   All the clouds that lowered upon our house. — Shakespeare

   • 1922, A. E. Housman, Last Poems, IX, lines 21-22

     If here to-day the cloud of thunder lours

     To-morrow it will hie on far behests;

2. (intransitive) To frown; to look sullen.

   But sullen discontent sat lowering on her face. — Dryden

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Anglo-Norman

Alternative forms

• lur

Pronoun

lour m. and f.

1. their (third-person plural possessive pronoun)