Darkness

State or quality of being dark; absence of light; obscurity; blackne ; gloom. "No light, but rather darkne , visible." - Milton . -Cheerle ne ; gloomine ; want of clearne , or perspicuity; as, the darkne of a theory. -State of intellectual cloudine ; ignorance; error; uncertainty; -principally applied in a religious sense; as, the darkne of scepticism. "Dawn on our darkne , and lend us thine aid." - Bishop Heber. -Hell; state or condition of infernal and eternal gloom and misery; as, the power of darkne . "The instruments of darkne tell us truths." - Shaks . -State of perplexity, trouble, distre , or calamity. Dark's ome, a. Gloomy; obscure; dark. Darks' ville, in Wisconsin, a former post-office of Randolph co. Darks'ville, or Darkes'ville, in W. Virginia, a post-village of Berkeley co.