Dark

Dark
Dark Dark (d[aum]rk), n. 1. Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is little or no light. [1913 Webster]

Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

2. The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy. [1913 Webster]

Look, what you do, you do it still i' th' dark. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Till we perceive by our own understandings, we are as much in the dark, and as void of knowledge, as before. --Locke. [1913 Webster]

3. (Fine Arts) A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted. [1913 Webster]

The lights may serve for a repose to the darks, and the darks to the lights. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]


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  • Dark — (d[aum]rk), a. [OE. dark, derk, deork, AS. dearc, deorc; cf. Gael. & Ir. dorch, dorcha, dark, black, dusky.] 1. Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • dark — adj 1 Dark, dim, dusky, obscure, murky, gloomy mean partly or wholly destitute of light. Dark, the ordinary word and the most general of these terms, implies a lack of the illumination necessary to enable one to see or to identify what is before… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • dark — [adj1] lack of light aphotic, atramentous, black, blackish, caliginous, Cimmerian, clouded, cloudy, crepuscular, darkened, dim, dingy, drab, dull, dun, dusk, dusky, faint, foggy, gloomy, grimy, ill lighted, indistinct, inky, lightless, lurid,… …   New thesaurus

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