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To make darker or more intense; to darken; as, the event deepened the prevailing gloom. You must deepen your colors. Peacham.

er dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct; to take away the luster of; to darken; to dull; to obscure; to eclipse. A king among his courtiers, who dims all his attendants. Dryden. Now set the sun, and twilight dimmed the ways. Cowper.

To darken. [Obs.] Spenser.

or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally. Wrath and malice, envy and revenge, do darken and distort the understandings of men. Tillotson.

To cause the obscuration of; to darken or hide; -- said of a heavenly body; as, the moon eclipses the sun.

To darken. [Obs.] Feltham.

To envelop, as with fog; to befog; to overcast; to darken; to obscure.

A darkening; obscurity; obfuscation. [R.] Blount.

To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken. A bow window . . . gloomed with limes. Walpole. A black yew gloomed the stagnant air. Tennyson.

Proceeding step by step, or by gradations; gradual. Could we have seen [Macbeth's] crimes darkening on their progress . . . could this gradatory apostasy have been shown us. A. Seward.

To make brown; to obscure; to darken; to tan; as, features imbrowned by exposure. The mountain mass by scorching skies imbrowned. Byron.

To envelop as in clouds; to darken; to obscure. Milton.

To darken; to make black; to obscure.

Darkened with a blackish tinge.

The act of darkening, or state of being dark; darkness; obscurity. Johnson.

To render turbid; to darken; to confuse. [R.] The confusion of ideas and conceptions under the same term painfully inturbidates his theology. Coleridge.

To shade; to darken. [Obs.]

A mixture of soot and other ingredients, used by Egyptian and other Eastern women to darken the edges of the eyelids.

Bright with the radiance of intellect; not darkened or confused by delirium or madness; marked by the regular operations of reason; as, a lucid interval.

Hence, anything which dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision. His passion cast a mist before his sense. Dryden. Mist flower (Bot.), a composite plant (Eupatorium coelestinum), having heart-shaped leaves, and corymbs of lavender-blue flowers. It is found in the Western and Southern United States.…