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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.…

ebruary, blowing from the interior or Sahara. It is usually accompanied by a haze which obscures the sun.

ed, his or her rank, whether married, widower, widow, etc. Called also achievement. His obscure funeral; No trophy, sword, or hatchment o'er his bones. Shak.

Iowa; -- a nickname of obscure origin.

on, 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.

In a hazy manner; mistily; obscurely; confusedly.

Thick with haze; somewhat obscured with haze; not clear or transparent. "A tender, hazy brightness." Wordsworth.

ight homely, and communed with, them long and oft. Foxe. Their homely joys, and destiny obscure. Gray.

Indiana; -- a nickname of obscure origin.

A plant of the genus Nasturtium (N. Armoracia), allied to scurvy grass, having a root of a pungent taste, much used, when grated, as a condiment and in medicine. Gray. Horse-radish tree. (Bot.) See Moringa.

Deserving ignominy; despicable. One single, obscure, ignominious projector. Swift.

The spirit of those who extol the advantage to ignorance; obscuriantism.

One opposed to the diffusion of knowledge; an obscuriantist.

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.

An obscure sect of French Familists.

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

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

Not perspicuous; not clear; obscure; vague; ambeguous.

The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. [Obs.] Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne

Defilement; obscuration. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.