Look, what you do, you do it still i' th' dark.
Shak.
Till we perceive by our own understandings, we are as much in the dark, and as void of knowledge, as before.
Locke.
3. (Fine Arts) A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted.
The lights may serve for a repose to the darks, and the darks to the lights.
Dryden.
Dark, v. t. To darken; to obscure. [Obs.] Milton.
Dark"en (därk"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Darkened (-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Darkening (-n*ng).] [AS. deorcian. See Dark, a.] 1. To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room.
They [locusts] covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened.
Ex. x. 15.
So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began
To darken all the hill.
Milton.