A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; for example, a short lance or javelin. / Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.

(transitive) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch. / (transitive) To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot.

(of a source of light) Extinguished. / Deprived of sight; blind.

A complete or (more often) partial absence of light. / (uncountable) Ignorance. / (uncountable) Nightfall. / A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.

(intransitive) To grow or become dark, darken. / (intransitive) To remain in the dark, lurk, lie hidden or concealed. / (transitive) To make dark, darken; to obscure.

A board used as a target for throwing darts.

During nightfall.

Before night begins to fall. From morning until evening. In the daytime before sunset.

After nightfall; at night.

(Australia, rhyming slang) A bookmaker's clerk. / (Australia, rhyming slang) A shark.