Of an object, material, substance, etc.: having a colour which approaches black in shade; having a deep, intense colour or shade; not bright…

Dark, sombre, dusky, gloomy. Of deep water, clouds, the clouded sky, etc.: reflecting or transmitting little light.

Dusky, dark. (Now only poetic, and regarded as transferred from sense 2.)

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

esp. in conventional application in poetry to the sea (waves, etc.) or other waters.

Dark in colour. Now Orkney and Shetland.

Somewhat dark in shade or colour.

Dark from absence of light; dim, gloomy, shadowy; dark-coloured, blackish; dusky. (Now usually in reference to twilight: cf. B. 2.)

? Of somewhat dusky colour.

Esp. of clothing or fabric: of such a shade; dark-coloured; sombre. Now rare (archaic and poetic in later use).

Somewhat dusk or dusky; blackish; partly obscure.

Deep or dark in colour. Obsolete.

Somewhat black or dark in colour; dark-coloured; darkish.

Of a dark hue; black or blackish; dusky. gen. = swart, adj. 1a.

Dark or darkish in shade or colour.

Of the colour of smut; dusky; dark.

Of a dark, dusky, or dull colour; sombre, subdued, gloomy.

Dark in colour.

Of a dull, dusky, darkish colour; brownish; blackish; subfuscous. Cf. fuscous, adj. Also as n.

gen. Black. Chiefly poetic and rhetorical. Of dark-coloured liquids. rare.

= sombre, adj. 4b.

Dark in colour or aspect; darkened. Obsolete.

Of things in respect of colour. (Cf. A. 1.)

of the colour of deep-red wine; used esp. to render Greek οἴνοψ as an epithet of the sea; occasionally (poetic) as n.

Somewhat dark or murky.