Part 30

Shak.

5. To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.

I must not think there are Evils enough to darken all his goodness.

Shak.

Dark"en, v. i. To grow or darker.

Dark"en*er (?), n. One who, or that which, darkens.

Dark"en*ing, n. Twilight; gloaming. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Wright.

Dark"ful (?), a. Full of darkness. [Obs.]

Dark"ish (?), a. Somewhat dark; dusky.

Dar"kle (?), v. i. [Freq. of dark.] To grow dark; to show indistinctly. Thackeray.

Dark"ling (?), adv. [Dark + the adverbial suffix -ling.] In the dark. [Poetic]

So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling.

Shak.

As the wakeful bird Sings darkling.

Milton.

Dark"ling, p. pr. & a. 1. Becoming dark or gloomy; frowing.

His honest brows darkling as he looked towards me.

Thackeray.

2. Dark; gloomy. "The darkling precipice." Moore.

Dark"ly, adv. 1. With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly.

What fame to future times conveys but darkly down.

Dryden.

so softly dark and darkly pure.

Byron.

2. With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look.

Looking darkly at the clerguman.

Hawthorne.

Dark"ness, n. 1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom.