glower

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But take care of him_; he is called Flamen, and he lives in the street of Mary of Burgundy; you cannot miss him; and if you will look for him always, and have a heed that the angels never leave him, I will give you my great cactus glower--my only one--on your Feast of Roses this very year.

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  1. intransitive verb To look or stare angrily or sullenly. See Synonyms at frown.
  2. noun An angry or sullen look or stare.

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  • In the face of Alys's glower, Davenport hesitated. —  Mary Jo Putney - The Rake.htm
  • He gave me an instinctive glower, then halfways smiled. —  EQMM, July 2005
  • I turned back to Eakins, not certain whether to glower or question. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • We need a lunar program That remark earned Britt a presidential glower: he's your protégé. —  AnalogSF,Dec2003
  • When he came out, his wore the kind of glower that each of us dreaded. —  Challenging Destiny #18
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glower:   glowered ·  glowering
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  1. Middle English gloren, probably of Scandinavian origin; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.
 

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