darksome

adj

1. (literary, poetic)Characterized by darkness; gloomy, obscure.

   “His fiery eies are fixt vpon the earth. / As if he now deuiſ’d some Stratageme: / Or meant to pierce Auernus darkſome vauts. / To pull the triple headed dog from hell.”

   “That sometimes from the savage den, / And sometimes from the darksome shade, / And sometimes staring up at once / In green and sunny glade.”

   “They […] ate the messes compounded for them in a darksome cupboard, known as the kitchen, by old Nanon the cook, purblind, stone-deaf, and all but imbecile, and popularly supposed to be the venerable mother of Madame Magnotte.”