Dark

därk, adj. without light: black, or somewhat black: gloomy: difficult to understand: unenlightened: secret: sinister.— n. absence of light: obscurity: a state of ignorance.— adv. ( Shak. ) in a state of dark.— v.t. Dark′en , to make dark: to render ignorant: to sully.— v.i. to grow dark or darker.— n. Dark′-house ( Shak. ), a mad-house.— adj. Dark′ish , somewhat dark: dusky.— v.i. Dark′le , to grow dark.— adv. and adj. Dark′ling , dark: in the dark.— advs. Dark′lings ( poet. ), in the dark; Dark′ly .— n. Dark′ne .— adj. Dark′some , dark: ( poet. ) gloomy.— ns. Dark′y , Dark′ey , a negro: ( slang ) a policeman's lantern.— Dark ages , the period of intellectual darkne in Europe, from the 5th to the 15th century.— Darken the door , to enter in at the door.— A dark horse , in racing, a horse whose capabilities are not known: a candidate about whom it is not known till the last moment that he is a candidate.— Keep dark , to be silent or secret; Keep it dark , to conceal.— The prince of darkne , Satan. [A.S. deorc .]