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   Dark , a. [OE. dark, derk, deork, AS. dearc, deorc; cf. Gael. & Ir. dorch, dorcha, dark, black, dusky.]
   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.
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   O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,
   Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse
   Without all hope of day!
   Milton.
   
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   In the dark and silent grave.
   Sir W. Raleigh.
   
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   Not clear to the understanding; not easily seen through; obscure; mysterious; hidden.
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   The dark problems of existence.
   Shairp.
   
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   What may seem dark at the first, will afterward be found more plain.
   Hooker.
   
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   What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word?
   Shak.
   
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   Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual darkness; unrefined; ignorant.
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   The age wherein he lived was dark, but he
   Could not want light who taught the world to see.
   Denhan.
   
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   The tenth century used to be reckoned by mediæval historians as the darkest part of this intellectual night.
   Hallam.
   
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   Evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked; atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed.
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   Left him at large to his own dark designs.
   Milton.
   
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   Foreboding evil; gloomy; jealous; suspicious.
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   More dark and dark our woes.
   Shak.
   
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   A deep melancholy took possesion of him, and gave a dark tinge to all his views of human nature.
   Macaulay.
   
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   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.
   
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   Deprived of sight; blind. [Obs.]
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   He was, I think, at this time quite dark, and so had been for some years.
   Evelyn.
   
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   ☞ 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.
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   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]
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   Dark , n.
   Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is little or no light.
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   Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out.
   Shak.
   
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   The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy.
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   Look, what you do, you do it still i' th' dark.
   Shak.
   
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   Till we perceive by our own understandings, we are as much in the dark, and as void of knowledge, as before.
   Locke.
   
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   (Fine Arts) A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted.
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   The lights may serve for a repose to the darks, and the darks to the lights.
   Dryden.
   
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   Dark, v. t. To darken; to obscure. [Obs.]
   Milton.
   
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