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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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