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murk    Audio Help   [murk] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.darkness; gloom: the murk of a foggy night.
–adjective
2.Archaic. dark; murky.
Also, mirk.


[Origin: bef. 900; ME mirke, myrke < ON myrkr dark, darkness, r. OE myrce dark]
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murk also mirk    Audio Help   (mûrk)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Partial or total darkness; gloom.

adj.   Archaic
Partially or totally dark; gloomy.


[Middle English mirke, from Old Norse myrkr or Old English mirce.]

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murk 
c.1200, from O.N. myrkr "darkness," from myrkr "dark," cognate with O.E. mierce "dark," from P.Gmc. *merkwjo-, with no known cognates outside Gmc. Murk Monday was long the name in Scotland for the great solar eclipse of March 29, 1652 (April 8, New Style). Murky (1340) was rare before 17c.

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murk

noun
1. an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance [syn: fog

verb
1. make dark, dim, or gloomy 

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Murk

Murk\, a. [See Murky.] Dark; murky.

He can not see through the mantle murk. --J. R. Drake.
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Murk

Murk\, n. Darkness; mirk. [Archaic] --Shak.
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Murk

Murk\, n. The refuse of fruit, after the juice has been expressed; marc.
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