dingy complexion

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• dark — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Lacking brightness] Syn. unlighted, unlit, dim, dusky, murky, gloomy, shadowy, somber, cloudy, foggy, sunless, lightless, indistinct, dull, faint, vague, misty, darkish, deep, drab, dingy, obscure, nebulous, shady,… …   English dictionary for students

• Eystein II of Norway — Infobox Monarch | name=Eystein II Haraldsson title= King of Norway reign= 1142 ndash; 1157 date1= 1142 date2= 1157 queen= Ragna Nikolasdatter Royal house= Fairhair father= Harald IV of Norway mother= Bjaðök issue= Eystein Meyla (d. 1176) date of… …   Wikipedia

• Bessett — This interesting name of English origin is the diminutive form of the name Biss, the suffix ett denoting little or son of . Biss is a nickname surname for someone with a pallid complexion, maybe from indoor occupation. The derivation is from the… …   Surnames reference

• Biset — This interesting name of English origin is the diminutive form of the name Biss, the suffix ett denoting little or son of . Biss is a nickname surname for someone with a pallid complexion, maybe from indoor occupation. The derivation is from the… …   Surnames reference

• Bisatt — This interesting name of English origin, but generally accepted as being Scottish, is the diminutive form of the name Biss, the suffix ett denoting little or son of . Biss is a nickname surname for someone with a pallid complexion, maybe from… …   Surnames reference

• Bissatt — This interesting name of English origin, but generally accepted as being Scottish, is the diminutive form of the name Biss, the suffix ett denoting little or son of . Biss is a nickname surname for someone with a pallid complexion, maybe from… …   Surnames reference

• dusky — adj 1. shadowy, shady, dim, dark, unlit, unilluminated, Literary. darkling; gray, cloudy, foggy, misty, hazy, murky; overcast, gloomy, somber, lowering, tenebrous, obscure. 2. darkish, dark colored, grayish, dingy, sooty, smoky, fuliginous,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• De Quincey, Thomas — (1785 1859)    Essayist and miscellaneous writer, s. of a merchant in Manchester, was b. there. The aristocratic De was assumed by himself, his f., whom he lost while he was still a child, having been known by the name of Quincey, and he claimed… …   Short biographical dictionary of English literature

• dark — [adj1] lack of light aphotic, atramentous, black, blackish, caliginous, Cimmerian, clouded, cloudy, crepuscular, darkened, dim, dingy, drab, dull, dun, dusk, dusky, faint, foggy, gloomy, grimy, ill lighted, indistinct, inky, lightless, lurid,… …   New thesaurus

• lurid — adj. 1 vivid or glowing in colour (lurid orange). 2 of an unnatural glare (lurid nocturnal brilliance). 3 sensational, horrifying, or terrible (lurid details). 4 showy, gaudy (paperbacks with lurid covers). 5 ghastly, wan (lurid complexion). 6… …   Useful english dictionary