Word Meanings - DARKENING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Twilight; gloaming. Wright.

WRIGHT
One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc. He was a well good wright, a carpenter.
GLOAM
To be sullen or morose. (more info) 1. To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky.
TWILIGHT
light; hence the sense of doubtful or half light; cf. LG. twelecht, 1. The light perceived before the rising, and after the setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18º below the horizon, occasioned by the illumination of the earth's
WRIGHTINE
A rare alkaloid found in the bark of an East Indian apocynaceous tree , and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance. It was formerly used as a remedy for diarrhoea. Called also conessine, and neriine.
GLOAMING
2. Sullenness; melancholy. J. Still.
CARTWRIGHT
An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
WAINWRIGHT
See WAGONWRIGHT
MILLWRIGHT
A mechanic whose occupation is to build mills, or to set up their machinery.
WHEELWRIGHT
A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like.
PLOWWRIGHT; PLOUGHWRIGHT
One who makes or repairs plows.
HOUSEWRIGHT
A builder of houses.
PLAYWRIGHT
A maker or adapter of plays.
SHIPWRIGHT
One whose occupation is to construct ships; a builder of ships or other vessels.
WAGONWRIGHT
One who makes wagons.