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The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy. Look, what you do, you do it still i' th' dark. Shak. Till we perceive by our own understandings, we are as mucdark, and as void of knowledge, as before. Locke.

A state of privacy; secrecy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x. 27.

tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves.

A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department. [U.S.]

Secret; lonely; solitary; dreadful. [Obs.] Shak. -- Dearn"ly, adv. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To break up a camp; to move away from a camping ground, usually by night or secretly. Macaulay.

To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.

The state or quality of being deep, profound, mysterious, secretive, etc.; depth; profundity; -- opposed to shallowness. Because they had no deepness of earth. Matt. xiii. 5.

Removing obstructions; having power to clear or open the natural ducts of the fluids and secretions of the body; aperient. -- n.

One with whom something is deposited; a depositary. I am the sole depository of my own secret, and it shall perish with me. Junius.

Pertaining to the integument or skin of animals; dermic; as, the dermal secretions.

Hidden; concealed; secret. [Obs.] "Ye must be full dern." Chaucer.

Secret; hence, lonely; sad; mournful. [Obs.] "Dernful noise." Spenser.

Secretly; grievously; mournfully. [Obs.] Spenser.

erogatory to their other. Macaulay. Derogatory clause in a testament (Law), a sentence of secret character inserted by the testator alone, of which he reserves the knowledge to himself, with a condition that no will he may make thereafter shall be valid, unless this clause is inserted word for word; -- a precaution to…

An application for drying up secretions.

lam. A . . . settled design upon another man's life. Locke. How little he could guess the secret designs of the court! Macaulay.

discovery; as, the detection of a thief; the detection of fraud, forgery, or a plot. Such secrets of guilt are never from detection. D. Webster.

One who business it is so detect criminals or discover matters of secrecy.

erish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished. Letting the secret die within his own breast. Spectator. Great deeds can not die. Tennyson.