602 D A R 
A( 5 ta, in the mouth of the river Darien: having a capa- 
cions and ftrongly-fituated harbour. The country they 
called New Caledonia. It was about midway between 
Porto Bello and Carthagena ; but near fifty leagues dif- 
tant from either. 
DARIEN (the gulf of), runs fouth-eafterly into Terra 
Firma. On the eaftern fide of its mouth is the town of 
St. Sebaftian. 
DA'RIEN, a town of the American States, in Liberty 
county, Georgia, by the heights of which glides the 
north channel of Alatamaha river, about twenty miles 
above Sapelo illand, and ten below Fort Barrington. It 
is forty-feven miles fouth-fouth-weft of Savannah. 
DA'RII,/". in logic, one of the modes of fyllogifm of 
the firft figure, wherein the major propofition is an uni. 
verfal affirmative, and the minor and conclufion particu¬ 
lar affirmatives. Thus: 
Da- Every thing that is moved, is moved by another ; 
Ri- Some body is moved ; 
.1, Therefore, fome body is moved by another. 
DA'RING, adj. Bold; adventurous; fearlefs ; cou¬ 
rageous; intrepid; brave; ftout.—The laft Georgick has 
many metaphors, but not fo daring as this; for human 
paffions may be more naturally afcribed to a bee, than to 
an inanimate plant. Addifon .—Grieve not, O daring prince, 
that noble heart. Pope. 
DA'RINGLY, adv. Boldly; courageoufly ; fearlefs- 
Iv ; impudently; outrageoufly.—Some of the great prin¬ 
ciples of religion are every day openly and daringly at¬ 
tacked'from the prefs. Atterbury. 
Your brother, fir’d with his fuccefs, 
Too daringly upon the foe did prefs. Halifax. 
DA'RINGNESS,/ Boldnefs. 
DARIORI'GUM, in ancient geography, a town of 
the Veneti in Gallia Celtica, called, in the Notiria Lug- 
dunenfis, Civitas Venetian-, now Vannes or Venues, it Brittany. 
DARI'US, [Heb. an enquirer.] The name of feveral 
kings of Perfia. See the article Persia. 
DARK,<2<fj. [beojrc, Sax. andaJ«0K5jc, Gr.] Notlight; 
wanting light: 
Fleance, his fon, who keeps him company, 
Mud embrace the fate of that dark hour. Sha/iefpeare. 
Not of a fliowy or vivid colour.—If the plague be fome- 
■what dark, and the plague fpread not in the (kin, the 
pried (hall pronounce him clean. Leviticus .—Blind; with¬ 
out the enjoyment of light: 
Thou wretched daughter of a dark old man, 
Conduit my weary fteps. Dryden. 
Opake; not tranfparent: as, lead is a dark body. Ob- 
fcure; not perfpicuous.—What may feem dark at the 
firft, will afterwards be found more plain. Hooker. —Mean 
time we (hall exprefs our darker purpofie. Shakefpeare .— 
Not enlightened by knowledge ; ignorant.—The age, 
wherein he lived, was dark ; but he could not want fight, 
who taught the world to fee. Denham. —Gloomy ; not 
cheerful.—All men of dark tempers, according to their 
degree of melancholy or enthufiafm, may find convents 
fitted to their humours. Addifon. 
DARK, f. Darknefs ; obfcurity; want of light.— 
Whereas feeing requires light, and a free medium, and 
a right line to the objefts, we can hear in the dark im¬ 
mur’d, and by curve lines. Holder. 
Cloud and ever-during dark 
Surrounds me ! from the cheerful ways of men 
Cut off. Milton. 
Obfcurity; condition of one unknown.—All he fays of 
himfelf is, that he is an obfcure perfon; one, I fup- 
pofe he means, that is in the dark. Atterbury .—Want of 
knowledge.—Till we ourfelves perceive by our own un- 
derftandings, we are as much in the dark, and as void of 
knowledge, as before. Locke. 
To DARK, v.a. To darken; to obfcure: olfolctei 
D A R 
Fair when that cloud of pride, which oft doth dark 
Her goodly light, with fmiles (lie drives away. Spenfcr „ 
DARK 1 ENT, f. A portable camera obfcura, made 
fomewhat like a defk, and fitted with optic glalfes, to 
take profpetb of landfcapes, buildings, &c. 
DARKEH'MEN, a town of Prufiia: fifty miles eaft- 
fouth-eaft of Koniglberg. 
To DARK'EN, v. a. To make dark; to deprive of 
light: 
Black with furrounding forefts then it flood. 
That hung above, and darken'd all the flood. Addifon. 
To cloud ; to perplex.—Such was his wifdom, that his 
confidence did feldom darken his forefight, efpecially in 
things near hand. Bacon. —To foul; to fully.—The lufts 
and paffions of men do fully and darken their minds, even 
by a natural influence. Tillotfon. 
To DARK'EN, v. n. To grow dark. 
DAR'KING, or Dorking, a fmall pleafant town, in 
the county of Surry, fituated at the angle of two valleys, 
furrounded by hills. The town was deftroyed by the 
Danes. The church is collegiate. The market, par¬ 
ticularly celebrated for its quantity of poultry, is kept 
on Thurfday. The principal trade is mealing : the cuf- 
tom of borough Englifli prevails in this manner; that 
is, the youngeft fon is heir to the copyhold eftate : eleven 
miles eaft of Guildford, and twenty-four fouth-fouth-weft: 
of London. 
DARK'LING, [a participle from darkle ; or, perhaps, 
a kind of diminutive from dark ; 2ls, young, youngling. \ 
Being in the dark ; being without light: a word merely 
poetical: 
The wakeful bird 
Sings darkling, and, in fhadieft covert hid, 
Tunes her noifturnal note. Milton. 
DARK'LY, adv. In a fituation void of light; ob« 
feurely; blindly; gloomily; uncertainly: 
For well you know, and can record alone, 
What fame to future times conveys but darkly down. Dryd. 
DARK'NESS, f Abfence of light.— Darknefs was 
upon the face of the deep. Genefis .— 1 go whence I (hall 
not return, even to the land of darknefs, and the fhadow 
of death. Job. —Opakenefs ; want of tranfparency. Ob¬ 
fcurity ; want of perfpicuity ; difficultnefs to the under- 
Handing. Infernal gloom ; wickednefs : 
The inftruments of darknefs tell us truths ; 
Win us with honeft trifles, to betray us 
In deepeft confequence. Shakefpeare. 
State of being intellectually clouded ; ignorance ; uncer¬ 
tainty.—All the light truth has, or can have, is from 
the clearnefs and validity or thofe proofs upon which it 
is received ; to talk of any other light in the underftand- 
ing, is to put ourfelves in the dark, or in the power of 
the prince of darknefs. Locke. —The empire of Satan, or 
the devil.—Who hath delivered us from the power of 
darknefs, and' tranflated us into the kingdom of his dear 
Son. ColoJJans. 
DARK'SOME, adj. Gloomy; obfcure; not well en¬ 
lightened ; not luminous.—You muft not look to have 
an image in any thing lightfome ; for even a face in iron, 
red-hot, will not be leen, the light confounding the fmall 
differences of lightfome and darkfovie, which (hew the fi¬ 
gure. Bacon. 
The darkfome pines, that o’er yon rocks reclin’d. 
Wave high, and murmur to the hollow wind. Pope. 
DAR'LING, adj. [beopiling, Sax. diminutive of dear , 
dearlingf Favourite; dear; beloved; regarded with 
great kindr.efs and tendernefs.—Have a care left fome 
beloved notion, or fome darling fcience, too far prevail 
over.your mind. Watts. 
DAR'LING, /! A favourite ; one much beloved.—■ 
She became the darling of the princefs. Addifon. 
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