Word Meanings - MIRKSOME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dark; gloomy; murky. Spenser. -- Mirk"some*ness, n.

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• GLOOMY
  1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• MURKY
  Dark; obscure; gloomy. "The murkiest den." Shak. A murky deep lowering o'er our heads. Addison.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.