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Webster 1828 Edition

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contracting the brows into wrinkles; frowning; expressing displeasure or sullenness.

scowling

scowling ‎(plural scowlings)

The act of giving a scowl.
- John Wilson
  No black scowlings — no horrid gnashing of teeth — no hideous shriekings will there appal the loving ones who watch and weep by the side of him who is dying disconsolate.