KJV Dictionary - dark
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DARK
D'ARK, a.
1. Destitute of light; obscure. A dark atmosphere is one which prevents vision.
2. Wholly or partially black; having the quality opposite to white; as a dark color or substance.
3. Gloomy; disheartening; having unfavorable prospects; as a dark time in political affairs.
There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. Irving.
4. Obscure; not easily understood or explained; as a dark passage in an author; a dark saying.
5. Mysterious; as, the ways of Providence are often dark to human reason.
6. Not enlightened with knowledge; destitute of learning and science; rude; ignorant; as a dark age.
7. Not vivid; partially black. Lev. xiii
8. Blind.
9. Gloomy; not cheerful; as a dark temper.
10. Obscure; concealed; secret; not understood; as a dark design.
11. Unclean; foul.
12. Opake. But dark and opake are not synonymous. Chalk is opake, but not dark.
13. Keeping designs concealed.
The dark unrelenting Tiberius. Gibbon.
D'ARK, n.
1. Darkness; obscurity; the absence of light. We say we can hear in the dark.
Shall the wonders be known in the dark? Ps. 1xxxviii.
2. Obscurity; secrecy; a state unknown; as, things done in the dark.
3. Obscurity; a state of ignorance; as, we are all in the dark.
D'ARK, v.t.
1. To make dark; to deprive of light; as, close the shutters and darken the room.
2. To obscure; to cloud.
His confidence seldom darkened his foresight. Bacon.
3. To make black.
The locusts darkened the land. Ex. x.
4. To make dim; to deprive of vision.
Let their eyes be darkened. Rom xi.
5. To render gloomy; as, all joy is darkened. Is.24.
6. To deprive of intellectual vision; to render ignorant or stupid.
Their foolish heart was darkened. Rom. i.
Having the understanding darkened. Eph. iv.
7. To obscure; to perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Job 38.
8. To render less white or clear; to tan; as, a burning sun darkens the complexion.
9. To sully; to make foul.
Definition from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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