lour UK /ˈlaʊə/US /ˈlaʊɚ/noun 2verb 2forms 4 noun2 •A frown, a scowl; an angry or sullen look.I have such aversion to ill temper, that I could sooner forgive my wife adultery, than crossness. I cannot taste Cassio's kiss on her lips; but I can see a lour on her brow. — 1798 •(figurative) Of the sky, the weather, etc.: a dark, gloomy, and threatening appearance. verb2 •To frown; to look sullen.[...] Juno took her place: But sullen Discontent sat lowring on her Face. — 1700 •(figurative) To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; of the sky: to be covered with dark and threatening clouds; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.Now is the winter of our discontent, Made glorious summer by this sonne of Yorke: And all the cloudes that lowrd vpon our house, In the deepe bosome of the Ocean buried. — 1593 formsloured · louring · loureth · lours