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English Dictionary: Cimmerian by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Cimmerian
adj
  1. intensely dark and gloomy as with perpetual darkness; "the Cimmerian gloom...a darkness that could be felt"-Norman Douglas
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cimmerian \Cim*me"ri*an\, a. [L. Cimmerius.] [Written also
      {Kimmerian}.]
      1. Pertaining to the Cimmerii, a fabulous people, said to
            have lived, in very ancient times, in profound and
            perpetual darkness.
  
      2. Without any light; intensely dark.
  
                     In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.   --Milton.
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