Word of the day! 9-3-08

Today's Word
glower \GLAU-uhr\, intransitive verb:1. To look or stare angrily or with a scowl.
noun:1. An angry or scowling look or stare.

"At one point, the head of the institute started chatting with colleagues sitting at a table behind Yeltsin, prompting the Russian President to interrupt his reading and glower at them.-- Bruce W. Nelan, "The Last Hurrah?", Time, April 26, 1993

"A baby wearing a disposable nappy has been placed on a tree trunk in dark woodland: he seems to glower at us disapprovingly, like a troll, or a mini-Churchill.-- Margaret Walters, "The secret life of babies", New Statesman, September 13, 1996

"A boyish-looking man who frowned and glowered, trying to look more authoritative than his twenty-nine years, Andrei said his job was to focus on the convolutions in Russian property law.-- Eleanor Randolph, Waking the Tempest

"Floyd approached me with a glower, cheeks reddened, indignant.-- William Peter Blatty, Demons Five, Exorcists Nothing

Glower is from Middle English gloren, perhaps ultimately of Scandinavian origin.