opake

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

OPA'KE, adjective [Latin opacus.] 1. Impervious to the rays of light; not transparent. [This is the word now generally used.] Chalk is an opake substance. 2.Dark; obscure.
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