Sad"den (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Saddened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Saddening.]
To make sad.
Specifically: (a)
To render heavy or cohesive.
[Obs.]
Marl is binding, and saddening of land is the great prejudice it doth to clay lands.
Mortimer.
(b)
To make dull- or sad-colored, as cloth
. (c)
To make grave or serious; to make melancholy or sorrowful
.
Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene.
Pope.
© Webster 1913.
Sad"den, v. i.
To become, or be made, sad.
Tennyson.
© Webster 1913.