Crossword clues for darkling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Darkling \Dark"ling\ (d[aum]rk"l[i^]ng), adv. [Dark + the adverbial suffix -ling.] In the dark. [Poetic]
So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling.
--Shak.
As the wakeful bird
Sings darkling.
--Milton.
Darkling \Dark"ling\, p. pr. & a.
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Becoming dark or gloomy; frowing.
His honest brows darkling as he looked towards me.
--Thackeray. Dark; gloomy. ``The darkling precipice.''
--Moore.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"in the dark," mid-15c., from dark (n.) + now-obsolete adverbial ending -ling (compare headlong).\n\nBut having nothing to do with the participial -ing it does not mean growing dark &c.; from the mistaken notion that it is a participle spring both the misuse of the word itself and the spurious verb darkle.
[Fowler]
Wiktionary
1 dark; darkening. 2 obscure; done or happening 'in the dark' or unseen. adv. In the dark; in obscurity. n. 1 darkness. 2 (context fantasy English) A creature that lives in the dark. v
(present participle of darkle English)
WordNet
adj. uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure; "a darkling glance"; "secret operatives and darkling conspiracies"-Archibald MacLeish
(poetic) occurring in the dark or night; "a darkling journey"
Wikipedia
__NOTOC__ "Darkling" is the 60th episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the 18th episode of the third season.
Darkling, in comics, may refer to:
- The Darkling, a Futurius Comics character
- Darkling, a Marvel Comics character better known as Asylum (comics)
- Darkling (Archie Comics), a member of the Mighty Crusaders
- Darkling Lords, a group that appeared in Visionaries by Star Comics
Usage examples of "darkling".
Eye of Malsum, Angekok and his cruel price for hospitality and the shadowy shapelessness of a darkling demon summoned from out an icy sky!
Poor Bunce had darkling throes of mind, but struggled with desperate nervousness and could not be at ease till the straightforward talk began again.
I told you that old magics are fading and the Darklings and worse are roaming the land?
In addition, the Darklings are most likely going to reestablish old ties.
I understood that Darklings attacked here some fifteen years ago and killed everyone but you.
At first all eight Darklings were there as well as Tori and that man in blue.
In the Zone, at the juncture of nightmare and substance, the darklings had other, far greater threats at their disposal, but here, without the ability to draw strength and substance from cursed soil, they were limited by the same lack of substance that made them almost invulnerable to ordinary weapons.
He struck up at one sword, then across at another, frustrated when both of the darklings spun away into the dark, not losing their weapons, circling around back.
Pironesia was not connected by land to the north, and running water was supposed to be a barrier to darklings, and to all the unholy.
He dashed the lantern against the far bulkhead, on the off chance that the fire would slow the darklings down, at least for a few moments.
I doubt that darklings are ever actually buried, in any case, and certainly not in a conventional way.
Gray half expected more darklings to move out of the shadows at them, and the Khan, at his waist, almost vibrated with eagerness, but .
Word of pirates carrying darklings about the Med should get Admiral DuPuy some more ships, perhaps .
He would have felt and looked more at home there than any of the periwigged Persons of Quality who darted across its stone floor, nervously, like stoats trying to make it across a darkling sandbar before owls could stoop on them.
When the fading light turned the mist a darkling pearl color, Lector slowed his stag, letting it find its own way.