5 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dusk \Dusk\, a. [OE. dusc, dosc, deosc cf dial. Sw duska to
drizzle, dusk a slight shower. ???.]
Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black;
dusky.
A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dusk \Dusk\, n.
1. Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and
darkness; twilight; as the dusk of the evening.
2. A darkish color.
Whose duck set off the whiteness of the skin.
--Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dusk \Dusk\, v. t.
To make dusk. [Archaic]
After the sun is up that shadow which dusketh the
light of the moon must needs be under the earth.
--Holland.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dusk \Dusk\, v. i.
To grow dusk. [R.] --Chaucer.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
dusk
n 1: the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the
twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"
[syn: {twilight}, {gloaming}, {nightfall}, {evenfall}, {fall}]
2: a state of diffused or dim illumination [syn: {twilight}]
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