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ˈdarklings, adv. rare.
[f. darkling adv., with adverbial genitive: cf. backward, -wards, etc.]
In the dark; = darkling adv.
a1656Bp. Hall Wks. (1837–9) VII. 344 (D.) Idle wanton servants, who play and talk out their candle-light, and then go darklings to bed. 1785Burns Halloween xi, To the kiln she goes then, An' darklins grapit for the bauks. 1847Tait's Mag. XIV. 11 A kind of pantomime..done darklings in a lawyer's back shop.
b. at darklins is used dialectally.
1870E. Peacock Ralf Skirl. I. 282, I wonder you're not scared to be with her by your sen at darklins. |