LOOMn.
1. In composition, heir-loom, in law, is a personal chattel that by special custom descends to an heir with the inheritance, being such a thing as cannot be separated from the estate, without injury to it; such as jewels of the crown, charters, deeds, and the like.
2. A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver works threads into cloth.
Hector, when he sees Andromache overwhelmed with terror, sends her for consolation to the loom and the distaff.
3. A fowl of the size of a goose.
4. That part of an oar which is within board.
LOOMv.i.
To appear above the surface either of sea or land, or to appear larger than the real dimensions and indistinctly; as a distant object, a ship at sea, or a mountain. The ship looms large, or the land looms high.