Loom

Webster's Practical Dictionary- A Practical Dictionary of the Englih Language · 1884 · p. 244

loom, v. i. [loomed ( 1 oo m d ), looming.] To appear above the surface either of sea or land; to appear larger than the real dimensions, and indistinctly; to rise and to be eminent. —re. -Loom. The indistinct appearance of anything, as whose_outline only is visible.