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In an obscure manner. Milton.

Somewhat obscurely or darkly. [R.] Donne.

In a cloudy manner; darkly; obscurely. Dryden.

Confusedly; obscurely. [Obs.]

With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly. What fame to future times conveys but darkly down. Dryden. so softly dark and darkly pure. Byron.

Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened. [R.] A deaf murmur through the squadron went. Dryden.

Without sense of sounds; obscurely.

Darkly; obscurely.

In a foggy manner; obscurely. Johnson.

make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; - - often with at. Wherein obscurely Cæsar''s ambition shall be glanced at. Shak. He glanced at a certain reverend doctor. Swift.

To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

In a hazy manner; mistily; obscurely; confusedly.

In an inglorious manner; dishonorably; with shame; ignominiously; obscurely.

To suggest obscurely or indirectly; to refer to remotely; to give slight notice of; to hint; as, he intimated his intention of resigning his office. The names of simple ideas and substances, with the abstract ideas in the mind, intimate some real existence, from which was derived their original pattern. Locke.…

With mist; darkly; obscurely.

, In a muddy manner; turbidly; without mixture; cloudily; obscurely; confusedly.

Nearsighted, or dim-sighted; seeing obscurely; as, a purblind eye; a purblind mole. The saints have not so sharp eyes to see down from heaven; they be purblindand sand-blind. Latimer. O purblind race of miserable men. Tennyson. -- Pur"blind`ly, adv. -- Pur"blind`ness, n.

To bury; to inter; to entomb; as, obscurely sepulchered. And so sepulchered in such pomp dost lie That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. Milton.

entering pores or interstices; -- often with through. The rivulet beneath soaked its way obscurely through wreaths of snow. Sir W. Scott.