Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Darkly \Dark"ly\, adv.
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.
Source : WordNet®
darkly
adv 1: without light; "the river was sliding darkly under the mist"
[syn: {in darkness}]
2: in a dark glowering menacing manner; "he stared darkly at
her"