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† therk, a. Obs.
Forms: 3 ðherk, 4–5 þerke, 5 therk, thirke, thyrke, 7 thurck, thurk.
[app. a variant of ME. derk, dark; but the change of initial d to ð, þ, is abnormal and unexplained: cf. however OS. thimm, beside OE. dim(m), OFris. dimme dim.]
= dark a.
c1250Ðherk [see therkness below]. 13..Sir Beues (A.) 2790 Til it was þe þerke niȝt. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 204 Your byl clothyd thirke and on clene. c1440Jacob's Well 219 Ffyve cytees schal be in þe lond of thirknes spekyng wyth a chaungyng tunge. Þis is for to saye, ffyve citees schal be in the therk body of man. c1450Cov. Myst. xvii. (1841) 170 To marre ȝow in a thyrke myste. a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts viii. (1684) 146 Words..of common use in Norfolk..as..Thurck. 1691Ray S. & E.C. Words, Tharky adj., ‘very tharky’, very dark. Suff... Thurk, Norf. Ibid. Pref. 5 Thurk is plainly from the Saxon deorc, dark.
Hence † therk v. Obs. (3 þirk) = dark v.; † ˈtherkness Obs., darkness.
c1275Lay. 11973 Þirkede vnder sonne Þustrede þe wolkne. c1250Gen. & Ex. 3102 Ðhikke ðherknesse cam on ðat lond. c1440[see above]. c1485Digby Myst. iii. 773 Owt of þe ded slep of therknesse de-fend vs aye! |