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Mirk

adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Archaic spelling of murk. alt-of, archaic

    "c. 1590, Robert Greene, The Scottish History of James the Fourth, Act 5, Chorus 6, Norman Sanders (editor), 1973, The Revels Plays: James the Fourth, page 128, What gars this din of mirk and baleful harm, / Where everywean is all betaint with bloud?"

Noun
  1. 1
    Archaic spelling of murk. alt-of, archaic, uncountable

    "The thickness of mirk is bad enough, but the thickness of white, illimitable ether is worse a thousandfold, for it closes the eye and mazes the wits."

Verb
  1. 1
    Archaic spelling of murk. alt-of, archaic

    "And there they lay so near his little heart, / With whispering of things that happened not, / Until the serpent green had mirked / His manly vision in a way that lost / The anchorage of balanced sanity."

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