Emily Dickinson Lexicon

dark, n. [see dark, adj.] (webplay: blazes, chalk, cheerful, concealed, darkness, easily, every, explained, hear, heavenly, ignorance, keeping, known, learning, light, obscure, saying, spark, unknown, ways, vision).

1. Gravity; somberness; dimness; shade; shadowy place; [fig.] mortality; earthly life.
2. Nighttime; non-daylight hours; time when people usually are asleep; [fig.] time of faith rather than sure knowledge.
3. Underground; below the surface of the earth; [fig.] seclusion; privacy; hiding place; spot that no one else can see.
4. Tempest; bad weather; cloudy condition; nocturnal sky that hampers visibility.
5. Vacancy; void; emptiness; solitude; anonymity.
6. Absence of light; place without illumination; (see Genesis 15:17).
7. Obscurity; lack of firsthand experience; (see Psalms 88:12).
8. Time before dawn; period before morning; hours before sunrise; spare time for reading poetry; [fig.] mystery; enigma; riddle; conundrum; other world.
9. Night; nightfall; evening; (see Joshua 2:5); [fig.] unknown; uncertainty of mortal life.
10. Sorrow; grief; heartache; sadness.
11. Prison; danger; haunted place; unsafe location.
12. Gloom; loneliness; isolation [fig.] fear of death.
13. Separation; goodbye; adieu; farewell; resignation at parting.
14. Thunderstorm; [fig.] unenlightened state; (see Job 12:25).