Darkener to Dastard
Darkener
(Dark"en*er) n. One who, or that which, darkens.
Darkening
(Dark"en*ing), n. Twilight; gloaming. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Wright.
Darkful
(Dark"ful) a. Full of darkness. [Obs.]
Darkish
(Dark"ish) a. Somewhat dark; dusky.
Darkle
(Dar"kle) v. i. [Freq. of dark.] To grow dark; to show indistinctly. Thackeray.
Darkling
(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. Darkling
(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.
Darkly
(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. Darkness
(Dark"ness), n.
1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom.
And darkness was upon the face of the deep.
Gen. i. 2. 2. A state of privacy; secrecy.
What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light.
Matt. x. 27. 3. A state of ignorance or error, especially on moral or religious subjects; hence, wickedness; impurity.
Men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
John. iii. 19.
Pursue these sons of darkness: drive them out
From all heaven's bounds.
Milton. 4. Want of clearness or perspicuity; obscurity; as, the darkness of a subject, or of a discussion.
5. A state of distress or trouble.
A day of clouds and of thick darkness.
Joel. ii. 2.
