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One who, or that which, darkens.

Twilight; gloaming. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Wright.

Full of darkness. [Obs.]

Somewhat dark; dusky.

To grow dark; to show indistinctly. Thackeray.

In the dark. [Poetic] So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling. Shak. As the wakeful bird Sings darkling. Milton.

knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly. What fame to future times conveys but darkly down. Dryden. so softly dark and darkly pure. Byron.

The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2.

Dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless. [Poetic] He brought him through a darksome narrow pass To a broad gate, all built of beaten gold. Spenser.

A negro. [Sleng]

To go ashore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to put ashore.

Disembarkation. The debarkation, therefore, had to take place by small steamers. U. S. Grant.

Same as Demarcation.

See under Satin.

To disembark. Pope.

To remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore; to land; to debark; as, the general disembarked the troops.

The act of disembarking.

Disembarkation. [R.]

To free from the barriers or restrictions of a park. [R.] Spectator.

To throw (a park or inclosure); to treat (a private park) as a common. The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked. Jer. Taylor.