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murk noun1. Also mirk. Now chiefly Scot. & literary.
[Old English mirce, myrce from Germanic, reinforced in Middle English from Scandinavian (Old Norse myrkr noun & adjective = Old Saxon mirki adjective). Cf. MURK adjective.]
Darkness, gloom, (lit. & fig.); air obscured by fog, dense vapour, etc.
Carlyle Aloft from the murk of commonplace rise glancings of a starry splendour. W. de la Mare I still in the thin clear murk of dawn Descry her gliding streams. B. Geldof On foggy days Hoath Head looked like a huge ship looming out of the murk.
murksome adjective (rare) dark, obscure L16.