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Darkened. See Colly, v. t.

To render black or dark, as of with coal smut; to begrime. [Archaic.] Thou hast not collied thy face enough. B. Jonson. Brief as the lighting in the collied night. Shak.

uced to seek communion and fellowship with others. Hooker. What communion hath light with darkness 2 Cor. vi. 14. Bare communion with a good church can never alone make a good man. South.

The color or hue of the skin, esp. of the face. Tall was her stature, her complexion dark. Wordswoorth. Between the pale complexion of true love, And the red glow of scron and proud disdain. Shak.

Having (such) a complexion; -- used in composition; as, a dark- complexioned or a ruddy-complexioned person. A flower is the best-complexioned grass, as a pearl is the best- colored clay. Fuller.

; entaglement; complexity. A complication of diseases. Macaulay. Through and beyond these dark complications of the present, the New England founders looked to the great necessities of future times. Palfrey.

A variety of American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters.

Sexual lust; morbid carnal passion. Concupiscence like a pestilence walketh in darkness. Horne.

of condemning. This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather light, because their deeds were evil. John iii. 19.

emn assembly or council. To council summons all his mighty peers, Within thick clouds and dark tenfold involved, A gloomy consistory. Milton.

from this troubled sphere. Thakeray. The snow-white gander, invariably accompanied by his darker consort. Darwin.

more persons on some matter, with a view to a decision. Thus they doubtful consultations dark Ended. Milton.

A dark brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of New Granada as an arrow poison.

To conceal; to include or involve darkly. There is all this, and more, that lies naturally couched under this allegory. L'Estrange.

A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; -- hence called indigo copper.

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.

The dark space within the negative-pole glow at the cathode of a vacuum tube, observed only when the pressure is low enough to give a striated discharge; -- called also Crookes layer.

crust of dross. Addison. Below this icy crust of conformity, the waters of infidelity lay dark and deep as ever. Prescott.

A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.