Word Meanings - SCOWL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

one's self, D. schuilen, G. schielen to squint, Dan. skele, Sw. 1. To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry. She scowled and frowned with froward countenance. Spenser.

Additional info about word: SCOWL

one's self, D. schuilen, G. schielen to squint, Dan. skele, Sw. 1. To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry. She scowled and frowned with froward countenance. Spenser. 2. Hence, to look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower. "The scowling heavens." Thomson.

Related words: (words related to SCOWL)

• SKELETAL
  Pertaining to the skeleton.
• SKELETON
  The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal. Note: The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal. Note: In a wider sense, the skeleton includes the whole connective-
• SQUINTER
  One who squints.
• SCOWLINGLY
  In a scowling manner.
• SCOWL
  1. The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowing; the expression of displeasure, sullennes, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown. With solemn phiz, and critic scowl. Lloyd. 2. Hence, gloom; dark or threatening aspect. Burns. A ruddy
• SQUINT-EYED
  1. Having eyes that quint; having eyes with axes not coincident; cross-eyed. 2. Looking obliquely, or asquint; malignant; as, squint-eyed praise; squint-eyed jealousy.
• WRINKLE
  1. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow. "Sport that wrinkled Care derides." Milton. Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed. Pope. 2. Hence, to make rough
• FROWARD
  Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child. A froward man soweth strife. Prov. xvi. 28. A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation. Bacon. Syn.
• BROWSEWOOD
  Srubs and bushes upon which animals browse.
• SEVERE
  perhaps akin to Gr. swikns innocent, chaste: cf. F. sévère. Cf. 1. Serious in feeeling or manner; sedate; grave; austere; not light, lively, or cheerful. Your looks alter, as your subject does, From kind to fierce, from wanton to severe. Waller.
• FROWNINGLY
  In a frowning manner.
• SQUINT-EYE
  An eye that squints. Spenser.
• SQUINTING
  a. & n. from Squint, v. -- Squint"ing*ly, adv.
• DISPLEASURE
  1. The feeling of one who is displeased; irritation or uneasiness of the mind, occasioned by anything that counteracts desire or command, or which opposes justice or a sense of propriety; disapprobation; dislike; dissatisfaction; disfavor;
• FROWN
  1. A wrinkling of the face in displeasure, rebuke, etc.; a sour, severe, or stere look; a scowl. His front yet threatens, and his frowns command. Prior. Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are. H. Coleridge. 2.
• SULLEN
  French fr. LL. solanus solitary, fr. L. solus alone. See 1. Lonely; solitary; desolate. Wyclif . 2. Gloomy; dismal; foreboding. Milton. Solemn hymns so sullen dirges change. Shak. 3. Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious. Such sullen planets
• BROWSPOT
  A rounded organ between the eyes of the frog; the interocular gland.
• SKELETONIZER
  Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the apple-leaf skeletonizer.
• BROWSE
  1. To eat or nibble off, as the tender branches of trees, shrubs, etc.; -- said of cattle, sheep, deer, and some other animals. Yes, like the stag, when snow the plasture sheets, The barks of trees thou browsedst. Shak. 2. To feed on, as pasture;
• SKELET
  A skeleton. See Scelet.
• TRISKELION; TRISKELE
  A figure composed of three branches, usually curved, radiating from a center, as the figure composed of three human legs, with bent knees, which has long been used as a badge or symbol of Sicily and of the Isle of Man.
• SCLEROSKELETON
  That part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses.
• NEUROSKELETAL
  Of or pertaining to the neuroskeleton. Owen.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• COUNTENANCE
  demeanor, composure, F. contenance demeanor, fr. L. continentia continence, LL. also, demeanor, fr. L. continere to hold together, 1. Appearance or expression of the face; look; aspect; mien. So spake the Son, and into terror changed
• OUTFROWN
  To frown down; to overbear by frowning. Shak.
• DISCOUNTENANCE
  1. To ruffle or discompose the countenance of; to put of countenance; to put to shame; to abash. How would one look from his majestic brow . . . Discountenance her despised! Milton. The hermit was somewhat discountenanced by this observation. Sir
• DERMOSKELETON
  See EXOSKELETON
• DISCOUNTENANCER
  One who discountenances; one who disfavors. Bacon.
• VISCEROSKELETAL
  Of or pertaining to the framework, or skeleton, or skeleton, of the viscera; as, the visceroskeletal system of muscles. Mivart.