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Murky is a related term of ebon.


As a proper noun murky

is (murcki), a locale in poland.

As a noun ebon is

(now poetic) ebony; an ebony tree.

As an adjective ebon is

(poetic) made of ebony.

murky

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Hard to see through, as a fog or mist.
  • Gloomy, dark, dim.
  • Obscure, indistinct, cloudy.
  • Dishonest, shady.

    • Synonyms

    * dark

    Related terms

    * murk * murkily * murkiness

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    ebon

    English

    Alternative forms

    * hebene (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (now poetic) Ebony; an ebony tree.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (poetic) Made of ebony.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.5:
  • *:“A stranger knight,” sayd he, “unknowne by name, / But knowne by fame, and by an Hebene speare […].”
  • * 1745 , (Edward Young), Night-Thoughts , I:
    • Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, / In rayless majesty, now stretches forth / Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world.
  • (poetic) Black in colour.

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