sullen

Having a brooding ill temper; sulky.

Still she entreats, and prettily entreats, / For to a pretty ear she tunes her tale; / Still is he sullen, still he lours and frets, / ‘Twixt crimson shame and anger ashy-pale;

And sullen I forsook the imperfect feast.

Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.

a sullen atmosphere

Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change;

Sluggish; slow.

The larger [stream] was placid, and even sullen, in its course.

When ends life's transient dream, / when death’s cold, sullen stream / shall o'er me roll,

Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.

Such sullen planets at my birth did shine, / They threaten every Fortune mixt with mine.

she meets again / The savage murderer's sullen gaze,

Obstinate; intractable.

Things are as sullen as we are, and will be what they are whatever we think of them.

One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.

He sit neither with seint Johan, / Symond ne Jude, / Ne with maydenes ne with martires, / Confessours ne wydewes; / But by hymself as a soleyn, / And served on erthe.

Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness.

And let them die that age and sullens have;

If she be not sick of the sullens, I see not the least infirmity in her.

To make sullen.

The idle man is like the dumb jack in a virginal: while all the other dance out a winning music, this, like a member out of joint, sullens the whole body, with an ill disturbing laziness.