Definition of dark

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Dark (a.) 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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Swart :: Swart (a.) Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
Hole :: Hole (n.) An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation..
Cloud :: Cloud (v. t.) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors; as, to cloud yarn..
Sgraffito :: Sgraffito (a.) Scratched; -- said of decorative painting of a certain style, in which a white overland surface is cut or scratched through, so as to form the design from a dark ground underneath..
Subfusk :: Subfuscous (a.) Duskish; moderately dark; brownish; tawny.
Black-a-vised :: Black-a-vised (a.) Dark-visaged; swart.
Scotograph :: Scotograph (n.) An instrument for writing in the dark, or without seeing..
Scioptics :: Scioptics (n.) The art or process of exhibiting luminous images, especially those of external objects, in a darkened room, by arrangements of lenses or mirrors..
Quagga :: Quagga (n.) A South African wild ass (Equus, / Hippotigris, quagga). The upper parts are reddish brown, becoming paler behind and behind and beneath, with dark stripes on the face, neck, and fore part of the body..
Scioptic :: Scioptic (a.) Of or pertaining to an optical arrangement for forming images in a darkened room, usually called scioptic ball..
Scotomy :: Scotomy (n.) Obscuration of the field of vision due to the appearance of a dark spot before the eye.
Mirky :: Mirky (a.) Dark; gloomy. See Murky.
Glummy :: Glummy (a.) dark; gloomy; dismal.
Dark :: Dark (a.) Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual darkness; unrefined; ignorant.
Poke :: Poke (n.) A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (P. decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and pokeweed. The root and berries have emetic and purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shoots are sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said to be used in Europe to color wine..
Shading :: Shading (n.) That filling up which represents the effect of more or less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection, etc., in a picture or a drawing..
Thick :: Thick (superl.) Dense; not thin; inspissated; as, thick vapors. Also used figuratively; as, thick darkness..
Phaeospore :: Phaeospore (n.) A brownish zoospore, characteristic of an order (Phaeosporeae) of dark green or olive-colored algae..
Darken :: Darken (a.) To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible..
Negative :: Negative (n.) A picture upon glass or other material, in which the light portions of the original are represented in some opaque material (usually reduced silver), and the dark portions by the uncovered and transparent or semitransparent ground of the picture..
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