[f. LOOM v.2 + -ING2.] That looms, in the senses of the vb.
1855. M. Arnold, New Sirens, 182. In the midst of river-meadows Where the looming deer are laid.
1876. T. Hardy, Ethelberta (1890), 217. As if divers social wants and looming penuriousness had never been within her experience.
1876. ‘Ouida,’ Winter City, vi. 119. Her silvery marabouts glancing like hoar-frost in the shadows of the looming walls.
