Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
Rigid and unrelenting.
Ghastly or sinister.
Disgusting; gross.
To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to.
Grim and forbidding in appearance.
Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
To propel or move backward or stern-first in the water.
A bird, the black tern.
The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
The hinder part of anything.
The post of management or direction.
The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.