Definition of "louring" [louring]

• Present participle of lour. (verb)

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• "Unseal that louring eye from its repose; thy lowly couch of scattered leaves, O Hector, quit!"
• "As her distance from the house grew, she stopped and looked up at the louring sky."
• "I, for my part, never landed on Calais pier without feeling that a load of sorrows was left on the other side of the water; and have always fancied that black care stepped on board the steamer, along with the custom-house officers at Gravesend, and accompanied one to yonder black louring towers of London — so busy, so dismal, and so vast."