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To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak. And with the majesty of darkness round Covers his throune. Milton. All that beauty than doth cover thee. Shak.

A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure. Through lanes, and crooks, and darkness. Phaer.

Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual darkness; unrefined; ignorant. The age wherin he lived was dark, but he Cobld not want light who taught the world oto see. Denhan. The tenth century used to be reckoned by mediæval historians as the darkest part of this intellectual night. Hallam.…

Full of darkness. [Obs.]

"In dawning youth." Dryden. When life awakes, and dawns at every line. Pope. Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid. Heber,

rval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine.

The light of day as opposed to the darkness of night; the light of the sun, as opposed to that of the moon or to artificial light.

orror. "Deep despair." Milton. "Deep silence." Milton. "Deep sleep." Gen. ii. 21. "Deeper darkness." Hoole. "Their deep poverty." 2 Cor. viii. 2. An attitude of deep respect. Motley.

Very; with a tendency to darkness of color. The deeply red juice of buckthorn berries. Boyle.

That part of a painting, engraving, or the like, which is neither in full darkness nor full light.

To remove darkness from. [Obs.] Ash.

Darkness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

perceived; to pass from view, gradually or suddenly; to vanish; to be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the approach of light; a ship disappears as she sails from port.

Inspiring dejection; saddening; cheerless; as, the disconsolate darkness of the winter nights. Ray.

To go from a place of rest. [R.] Where Light and Darkness in perpetual round Lodge and dislodge by turns. Milton.

e as large or as much, etc. Let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. 2 Kings ii. 9. Darkness and tempest make a double night. Dryden.

To double the natural darkness of (a place). Milton.

Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky. A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. Milton.

or partial, of light, brilliancy, luster, honor, consciousness, etc.; obscuration; gloom; darkness. All the posterity of our fist parents suffered a perpetual eclipse of spiritual life. Sir W. Raleigh. As in the soft and sweet eclipse, When soul meets soul on lovers' lips. Shelley. Annular eclipse. (Astron.) See under…

ns round about environed. Spenser. Environed he was with many foes. Shak. Environ me with darkness whilst I write. Donne.