gloaming: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Advertisement A Cure for Brain Flab! One brain-building, at-a-glance email a day helps keep unsightly ignorance away. Click here for the KnowledgeNews cure!      Word of the Day for Sunday, April 30, 2006   gloaming \GLOH-ming\, noun: Twilight; dusk.   The children squealed and waved and smiled, their teeth flashing white in the gloaming. -- Evan Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life It was the gloaming, when a man cannot make out if the nebulous figure he glimpses in the shadows is angel or demon, when the face of evening is stained by red clouds and wounded by lights. -- Homero Aridjis, 1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezon of Castile (translated by Betty Ferber) Arrived at the village station on a wintry evening, when the gloaming is punctuated by the cheery household lamps, shining here and there like golden stars, through the leafless trees. -- Margaret Sangster Gloaming comes from Old English glomung, from glom, "dusk." Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for gloaming   Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help   Please visit our Sponsors Gamefly FREE game trials! Careerbuilder Launch a new career Rosettastone Language Learning WorldBookStore Biggest sale ever on now FREE shipping too!   What's another word for thesaurus? Enrich your vocabulary at Thesaurus.com: http://www.thesaurus.com/ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: news-and-stuff@arconati.us Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at: http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-6690510-4826904R@lists.lexico.com © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. 65 Pine Ave, #319 Long Beach, CA 90802