Part 2755

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<hw>Dar"kle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[Freq. of <ets>dark</ets>.]</ety> <def>To grow dark; to show indistinctly.</def>

<i>Thackeray.</i>

<h1>Darkling</h1> <Xpage=367>

<hw>Dark"ling</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Dark</ets> + the adverbial suffix <ets>-ling</ets>.]</ety> <def>In the dark.</def> <mark>[Poetic]</mark>

<blockquote>So, out went the candle, and we were left <b>darkling</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>As the wakeful bird</b> <b>Sings darkling</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Darkling</h1> <Xpage=367>

<hw>Dark"ling</hw>, <tt>p. pr. & a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Becoming dark or gloomy; frowing.</def>

<blockquote>His honest brows <b>darkling</b> as he looked towards me. <i>Thackeray.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Dark; gloomy.</def> "The <i>darkling</i> precipice."

<i>Moore.</i>

<h1>Darkly</h1> <Xpage=367>

<hw>Dark"ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly.</def>

<blockquote>What fame to future times conveys but <b>darkly</b> down. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>so softly dark and <b>darkly</b> pure. <i>Byron.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look.</def>

<blockquote>Looking <b>darkly</b> at the clerguman. <i>Hawthorne.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Darkness</h1> <Xpage=367>

<hw>Dark"ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom.</def>

<blockquote>And <b>darkness</b> was upon the face of the deep. <i>Gen. i. 2.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A state of privacy; secrecy.</def>

<blockquote>What I tell you in <b>darkness</b>, that speak ye in light. <i>Matt. x. 27.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A state of ignorance or error, especially on moral or religious subjects; hence, wickedness; impurity.</def>

<blockquote>Men loved <b>darkness</b> rather than light, because their deeds were evil. <i>John. iii. 19.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Pursue these sons of <b>darkness</b>: drive them out From all heaven's bounds. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Want of clearness or perspicuity; obscurity; <as>as, the <ex>darkness</ex> of a subject, or of a discussion</as>.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>A state of distress or trouble.</def>