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With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly.

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  1. adv. With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly.
  2. adv. With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look.
  3. adv. without light
  4. adv. in a dark glowering menacing manner
  5. 1. 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. 2. With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look. Looking darkly at the clerguman. Hawthorne.
  6. r:100 r. without light r. in a dark glowering menacing manner