Definition of "scowl"

scowl¹

/skaʊl/

noun
plural scowls
1. The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.
2. (by extension) Gloom; dark or threatening aspect.
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  Mr. Pynsent, who had asked Miss Amory to dance, came up on one occasion to claim her hand, but scowls of recognition having already passed between him and Mr. Arthur Pendennis in the dancing-room, Arthur suddenly rose up and claimed Miss Amory as his partner for the present dance […]
  1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 46, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850
verb
third-person singular simple present scowls, present participle scowling, simple past and past participle scowled
1. (intransitive) To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.
  Quotations
  She scould, and frownd with froward countenaunce
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 35
2. (intransitive, by extension) To look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower.
  Quotations
  The scowling heavens.
  1727, James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768
3. (transitive) To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown.
4. (transitive) To express by a scowl.

scowl²

noun
uncountable
1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) Old workings of iron ore.

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