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

Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.

Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton.

he dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see. We grope for the wall like the blind. Is. lix. 10. To grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities ot a worldly life. Buckminster.…

sion, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively, obscurity; dimness. O'er the sky The silvery haze of summer drawn. Tennyson. Above the world's uncertain haze. Keble.

To make plain or clear; to dispel the obscurity to by knowledge or reason; to explain; to elucidate; as, to illuminate a text, a problem, or a duty.

llustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.

Want of celebrity or distinction; obscurity. [R.] Coleridge.

Want of evidence; obscurity. [Obs.] Barrow.

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

To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity. And leave a singèd bottom all involved With stench and smoke. Milton.

dor; distinction; glory. His ancestors continued about four hundred years, rather without obscurity than with any great luster. Sir H. Wotton.

Obscurity or confusion, as in treatment of a subject; intellectual dullness.

Obscurity of doctrine.

Darkness; obscurity; concealment. Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night. Pope.

A new star, usually appearing suddenly, shining for a brief period, and then sinking into obscurity. Such appearances are supposed to result from cosmic collisions, as of a dark star with interstellar nebulosities. The most important modern novæ are: -- No"va Co*ro"næ Bo`re*a"lis [1866]; No"va Cyg"ni [1876]; No"va An*d…

Obscurity. [Obs.] Milton.

Obscurity. Bp. Hall.

in the course of this contract. Shak. To shelter their ignorance, or obstinacy, under the obscurity of their terms. Locke.

Obscurity; want of clearness. Bp. Hall.