dark

D'ARK, adjective 1. Destitute of light; obscure. A dark atmosphere is one which prevents vision. 2. Wholly or partially black; having the quality opposite to white; as a dark color or substance. 3. Gloomy; disheartening; having unfavorable prospects; as a dark time in political affairs. There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. Irving. 4. Obscure; not easily understood or explained; as a dark passage in an author; a dark saying. 5. Mysterious; as, the ways of Providence are often dark to human reason. 6. Not enlightened with knowledge; destitute of learning and science; rude; ignorant; as a dark age. 7. Not vivid; partially black. Leviticus 13:6 8. Blind. 9. Gloomy; not cheerful; as a dark temper. 10. Obscure; concealed; secret; not understood; as a dark design. 11. Unclean; foul. 12. Opake. But dark and opake are not synonymous. Chalk is opake, but not dark 13. Keeping designs concealed. The dark unrelenting Tiberius. Gibbon. D'ARK, noun 1. Darkness; obscurity; the absence of light. We say we can hear in the dark Shall the wonders be known in the dark? Ps. 1xxxviii. 2. Obscurity; secrecy; a state unknown; as, things done in the dark 3. Obscurity; a state of ignorance; as, we are all in the dark D'ARK, verb transitive 1. To make dark; to deprive of light; as, close the shutters and darken the room. 2. To obscure; to cloud. His confidence seldom darkened his foresight. Bacon. 3. To make black. The locusts darkened the land. Exodus 10:1. 4. To make dim; to deprive of vision. Let their eyes be darkened. Romans 11:10. 5. To render gloomy; as, all joy is darkened. Isaiah 24:1. 6. To deprive of intellectual vision; to render ignorant or stupid. Their foolish heart was darkened. Romans 1:21. Having the understanding darkened. Ephesians 4:1. 7. To obscure; to perplex; to render less clear or intelligible. Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Job 38:1. 8. To render less white or clear; to tan; as, a burning sun darkens the complexion. 9. To sully; to make foul.