Lacking light, or lustre; dark-hued, dusky, gloomy, dark. Obsolete. Chiefly poetic.

Dark in colour; black or blackish; dusky, swarthy. gen.

Of colour, tint, shade, etc.: deep; intense. Frequently modifying adjectives and nouns denoting a specific colour (often prefixed, sometimes with…

Somewhat dark; darkish.

Of colour: dark, deep. In later use esp.: not cheerful-looking; neutral, dull, sombre.

Somewhat swart, dusky, or dark-coloured. Also adv.

gen. Black. Chiefly poetic and rhetorical. Of sky, sea, land, night, and the like.

having a colour which approaches black in shade; not light or pale in colour.

Dusky, swarthy, black.

somewhat dark or dusky.

= swarthy, adj.1

Of appearance or demeanour: forbidding, stern, dark.

Of colours: Dark, blackish. Obsolete.

Of a dark or sombre hue; dusky, swarthy. (Chiefly Natural History.)

Of colour: Shaded, dark. Obsolete. rare.

Of colour: resembling that of tissue affected by dry gangrene (i.e. dark or black); (now usually of green or yellow) reminiscent or evocative of…

Of a colour or shade of colour: having the appearance of darkening by scorching.