a. Also 7 lowry. [f. LOUR sb.1 + -Y.] Of the sky, etc.: Dull, gloomy, threatening.
1648. J. Beaumont, Psyche, VII. xix. And in my wretched Beings lowry morn Dawn’d not eternal Night. Ibid., XVII. xxxii. But strait their Sunshine turn’d to lowry weather.
1686. Goad, Celest. Bodies, I. xiii. 67. XXI 1 m. close, H. wd m. often lowry, some shedding 0.
1735. Dyche & Pardon, Dict., Lowry, hazy, dull dark Weather, when the Air looks thick … and Rain is threatened.
1864. D. G. Mitchell, Sev. Stor., 39. The day was lowery.
1888. Barrie, Auld Licht Idylls, xi. (1902), 84/1. Loury grew the sky.
