Definition of dark

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Dark (n.) A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted..

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Black Vomit :: Black vomit () A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.
Swart :: Swart (a.) Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
Obfuscate :: Obfuscate (v. t.) To darken; to obscure; to becloud; hence, to confuse; to bewilder..
Mirk :: Mirk (n.) Darkness; gloom; murk.
Stapes :: Stapelia (n.) An extensive and curious genus of African plants of the natural order Asclepiadaceae (Milkweed family). They are succulent plants without leaves, frequently covered with dark tubercles giving them a very grotesque appearance. The odor of the blossoms is like that of carrion..
Pitch-dark :: Pitch-dark (a.) Dark as a pitch; pitch-black.
Shoveler :: Shoveler (n.) A river duck (Spatula clypeata), native of Europe and America. It has a large bill, broadest towards the tip. The male is handsomely variegated with green, blue, brown, black, and white on the body; the head and neck are dark green. Called also broadbill, spoonbill, shovelbill, and maiden duck. The Australian shoveler, or shovel-nosed duck (S. rhynchotis), is a similar species..
Fringe :: Fringe (n.) One of a number of light or dark bands, produced by the interference of light; a diffraction band; -- called also interference fringe..
Eclipse :: Eclipse (v. t.) To cause the obscuration of; to darken or hide; -- said of a heavenly body; as, the moon eclipses the sun..
Darksome :: Darksome (a.) Dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless.
Dark :: 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..
Black :: Black (a.) In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds..
Heavy :: Heavy (superl.) Dark with clouds, or ready to rain; gloomy; -- said of the sky..
Penetrate :: Penetrate (v. t.) To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness..
Scowl :: Scowl (v. i.) Hence, to look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower..
Fretwork :: Fretwork (n.) Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of light and shade, dark and light, or the like..
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..
Tenebrous :: Tenebrous (a.) Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious.
Whiteness :: Whiteness (n.) The quality or state of being white; white color, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface..
Molasses :: Molasses (n.) The thick, brown or dark colored, viscid, uncrystallizable sirup which drains from sugar, in the process of manufacture; any thick, viscid, sweet sirup made from vegetable juice or sap, as of the sorghum or maple. See Treacle..
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