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▪ I. looming, vbl. n.1|ˈluːmɪŋ|
[f. loom v.2 + -ing1.]
A coming indistinctly into view.
1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. xi. 53 The looming of a ship is her prospectiue, that is, as she doth shew great or little. 1634Relat. Ld. Baltimore's Plantat. (1865) 7 At the first loaming of the ship vpon the river, wee found..all the Countrey in Armes. 1684Bucaniers Amer. (1698) ii. 84 This day we saw the looming of a very high land. 1790Roy in Phil. Trans. LXXX. 266 Wherever the most faint looming of the land in a very clear day can be discerned. 1807Europ. Mag. LII. 441/2 [Sailor loq.] ‘Split me but I know the loaming of the land hereabouts.’ 1829Nat. Philos. Optics xviii. 56 (U.K.S.) The elevation of coasts, ships, and mountains above their usual level, when seen in the distant horizon, has been long known and described under the name of Looming. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. ix. (1856) 69 No evidences of refraction visible, except some slight loomings of the more distant bergs. 1861C. J. Anderson Okavango vii. 87 A crashing and cracking..announced the approach of elephants; in a few moments afterwards the looming of a dozen huge unwieldy figures in the distance told of their arrival.
fig.a1839Galt Demon of Destiny vii. (1840) 50 Tremendous loomings of eternal things.
▪ II. looming, vbl. n.2|ˈluːmɪŋ|
[f. loom v.1 + -ing1.]
The action or process of ‘mounting’ the warp on the loom. In quot. attrib.
1851L. D. B. Gordon in Art Jrnl. Illust. Catal. p. vii**/1 The warp was then taken from this [sizing-] machine to a machine for winding it on a roller-beam, after which it was taken to the looming-frame, and next to the loom.
▪ III. looming, ppl. a.|ˈluːmɪŋ|
[f. loom v.2 + -ing2.]
That looms, in the senses of the vb.
1855M. Arnold New Sirens 182 In the midst of river-meadows Where the looming deer are laid. 1876T. Hardy Ethelberta (1890) 217 As if divers social wants and looming penuriousness had never been within her experience. 1876Ouida Winter City vi. 119 Her silvery marabouts glancing like hoar-frost in the shadows of the looming walls. |