darkling

darkling is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.Becoming dark or gloomy; frowing. His honest brows darkling as he looked towards me. Thackeray.
  2. 2.Dark; gloomy. "The darkling precipice." Moore.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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