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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dark \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 shade of color; not light-colored; as a dark room a dark day dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! --Milton. In the dark and silent grave. --Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Not clear to the understanding; not easily seen through obscure; mysterious; hidden. The dark problems of existence. --Shairp. What may seem dark at the first will afterward be found more plain. --Hooker. What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word? --Shak. 3. Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual darkness; unrefined; ignorant. The age wherein he lived was dark, but he Could not want light who taught the world to see --Denhan. The tenth century used to be reckoned by medi[ae]val historians as the darkest part of this intellectual night. --Hallam. 4. Evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked; atrocious; as a dark villain; a dark deed. Left him at large to his own dark designs. --Milton. 5. Foreboding evil; gloomy; jealous; suspicious. More dark and dark our woes. --Shak. A deep melancholy took possesion of him and gave a dark tinge to all his views of human nature. --Macaulay. There is in every true woman-s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. --W. Irving. 6. Deprived of sight; blind. [Obs.] He was I think, at this time quite dark, and so had been for some years. --Evelyn. Note: Dark is sometimes used to qualify another adjective; as dark blue, dark green, and sometimes it forms the first part of a compound; as dark-haired, dark-eyed, dark-colored, dark-seated, dark-working. {A dark horse}, in racing or politics, a horse or a candidate whose chances of success are not known and whose capabilities have not been made the subject of general comment or of wagers. [Colloq.] {Dark house}, {Dark room}, a house or room in which madmen were confined. [Obs.] --Shak. {Dark lantern}. See {Lantern}. -- The {Dark Ages}, a period of stagnation and obscurity in literature and art, lasting, according to Hallam, nearly 1000 years, from about 500 to about 1500 A. D.. See {Middle Ages}, under {Middle}. {The Dark and Bloody Ground}, a phrase applied to the State of Kentucky, and said to be the significance of its name in allusion to the frequent wars that were waged there between Indians. {The dark day}, a day (May 19, 1780) when a remarkable and unexplained darkness extended over all New England. {To keep dark}, to reveal nothing. [Low] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dark \Dark\, n. 1. Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is little or no light. Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out --Shak. 2. The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy. Look what you do you do it still i' th' dark. --Shak. Till we perceive by our own understandings, we are as muc? in the dark, and as void of knowledge, as before --Locke. 3. (Fine Arts) A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like as the light and darks are well contrasted. The lights may serve for a repose to the darks, and the darks to the lights. --Dryden. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dark \Dark\, v. t. To darken to obscure. [Obs.] --Milton. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: dark adj 1: devoid or partially devoid of light or brightness; shadowed or black or somber-colored; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "the theater is dark on Mondays"; "dark as the inside of a black cat" [ant: {light}] 2: (used of color) having a dark hue; "dark green"; "dark glasses"; "dark colors like wine red or navy blue" [ant: {light}] 3: (used of hair or skin or eyes) "dark eyes" 4: stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy [syn: {black}, {sinister}] 5: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [syn: {blue}, {depressing}, {disconsolate}, {dismal}, {dispiriting}, {gloomy}, {grim}] 6: secret; "keep it dark"; "the dark mysteries of Africa and the fabled wonders of the East" 7: showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" [syn: {dour}, {glowering}, {glum}, {moody}, {morose}, {saturnine}, {sour}, {sullen}] 8: lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture; "this benighted country"; "benighted ages of barbarism and superstition"; "the dark ages"; "a dark age in the history of education" [syn: {benighted}] 9: marked by difficulty of style or expression; "much that was dark is now quite clear to me"; "those who do not appreciate Kafka's work say his style is obscure" [syn: {obscure}] 10: having skin rich in melanin pigments; "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "the dark races"; "dark-skinned peoples" [syn: {colored}, {coloured}, {dark-skinned}] 11: not giving performances; closed; "the theater is dark on Mondays" n 1: absence of light or illumination [syn: {darkness}] [ant: {light}] 2: absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of darkness" [syn: {iniquity}, {wickedness}, {darkness}] 3: an unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness" [syn: {darkness}, {shadow}] 4: the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside [syn: {night}, {nighttime}] [ant: {day}] 5: an unenlightened state; "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness" [syn: {darkness}]
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