Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DARK – DARN'ED
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DARK, a. [Sax. deorc; Ir. dorcha; Pers. تِيَره tirah, dark; تَأَرِيْک tarik, dark, darkness. See Class Dr, No. 15.]
- Destitute of light; obscure. A dark atmosphere is one which prevents vision.
- Wholly or partially black; having the quality opposite to white; as, a dark color or substance.
- 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.
- Obscure; not easily understood or explained; as, a dark passage in an author; a dark saying.
- Mysterious; as, the ways of Providence are often dark to human reason.
- Not enlightened with knowledge; destitute of learning and science; rude; ignorant; as, a dark age.
- Not vivid; partially black. – Lev. xiii.
- Blind. [Not in use.] Dryden.
- Gloomy; not cheerful; as, a dark temper. – Addison.
- Obscure; concealed; secret; not understood; as, a dark design.
- Unclean; foul. – Milton.
- Opake. But dark and opake are not synonymous. Chalk is opake, but not dark.
- Keeping designs concealed. The dark unrelenting Tiberius. – Gibbon.
DARK, n. [Sans. tareki.]
- Darkness; obscurity; the absence of light. We say, we can hear in the dark. Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? – Ps. lxxxviii.
- Obscurity; secrecy; a state unknown; as, things done in the dark.
- Obscurity; a state of ignorance; as, we are all in the dark.
DARK, v.t.
To darken; to obscure. [Obs.]
DARK-BROW-ED, a.
Stern of aspect; frowning; as, dark-browed Hotspur. – Percy's Masque.
DARK-COL-OR-ED, a.
Having a dark hue. – Smith.
DARK'EN, v.i.
To grow dark or darker; also, to grow less white or clear.
DARK'EN, v.t. [dàrkn; Sax. adeorcian.]
- To make dark; to deprive of light; as, close the shutters and darken the room.
- To obscure; to cloud. His confidence seldom darkened his foresight. – Bacon.
- To make black. The locusts darkened the land. – Ex. x.
- To make dim; to deprive of vision. Let their eyes be darkened. – Rom. xi.
- To render gloomy; as, all joy is darkened. – Is. xxiv.
- To deprive of intellectual vision; to render ignorant or stupid. Their foolish heart was darkened. – Rom. i. Having the understanding darkened. – Eph. iv.
- To obscure; to perplex; to render less clear or intelligible. Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? – Job xxxviii.
- To render less white or clear; to tan; as, a burning sun darkens the complexion.
- To sully; to make foul. – Tillotson.
DARK'EN-ED, pp.
Deprived of light; obscured; rendered dim; made black; made ignorant.
DARK'EN-ER, n.
That which darkens.
DARK'EN-ING, ppr.
Depriving of light; obscuring; making black, or less white or clear; clouding.
DARK-EY-ED, a.
Having dark eyes.
DARK'-HOUSE, n.
An old word for a mad-house. – Shak.
DARK-ISH, a.
Dusky; somewhat dark.
DARK'LING, a.
Being in the dark, or without light; a poetical word. – Milton. Shak.
DARK'LY, adv.
Obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly; with imperfect light, clearness or knowledge. They learn only what tradition has darkly conveyed to them. – Anon.
DARK-MIND-ED, a.
Having a dark, close or revengeful mind. – Baxter.
DARK'NESS, n.
- Absence of light. And darkness was on the face of the deep. – Gen. i.
- Obscurity; want of clearness or perspicuity; that quality or state which renders any thing difficult to be understood; as, the darkness of counsels.
- A state of being intellectually clouded; ignorance. Men loved darkness rather than light. – John iii.
- A private place; secrecy; privacy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. – Matth. x.
- Infernal gloom; hell; as, utter darkness. – Matth. xxii.
- Great trouble and distress; calamities; perplexities. A day of clouds and thick darkness. – Joel ii. Is. viii.
- Empire of Satan. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness. – Col. i.
- Opakeness. Land of darkness, the grave. – Job x.
DARK'SOME, a.
Dark; gloomy; obscure; as, a darksome house; a darksome cloud. – Milton. Dryden.
DARK-SOUL-ED, a.
Having a dark soul.
DARK'-WORK-ING, a.
Working in darkness, or in secrecy. – Shak.
DAR'LING, a. [Sax. deorling; deor, dear, and ling, which primarily denotes likeness, and in some words, is a diminutive. So in G. liebling, loveling, D. lieveling. See Dear.]
Dearly beloved; favorite; regarded with great kindness and tenderness; as, a darling child; a darling science. – Watts.
DAR'LING, n.
One much beloved; a favorite; as, that son was the darling of his father.
DARN, n.
A place mended by darning.
DARN, v.t. [W. darn; Arm. darn; Fr. darne; a piece or patch.]
To mend a rent or hole, by imitating the texture of the cloth or stuff with yarn or thread and a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread. It is used particularly of stockings. – Gay. Swift.
DARN'ED, pp.
Mended by imitating the texture of the cloth.