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Webster 1913 Edition

Dusk

Dusk

,
Adj.
[OE.
dusc
,
dosc
,
deosc
; cf. dial. Sw.
duska
to drizzle,
dusk
a slight shower. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK].]
Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
A pathless desert,
dusk
with horrid shades.
Milton.

Dusk

,
Noun.
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.

Dusk

,
Verb.
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.

Dusk

,
Verb.
I.
To grow dusk.
[R.]
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition

Dusk

DUSK

,
Adj.
[G., tarnish; to tarnish; to become dull or obscure. Gr.]
1.
Tending to darkness, or moderately dark.
2.
Tending to a dark or black color; moderately black.

DUSK

,
Noun.
1.
A tending to darkness; incipient or imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as the dusk of the evening.
2.
Tendency to a black color; darkness of color.
Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.

DUSK

,
Verb.
T.
To make dusky. [Little used.]

DUSK

,
Verb.
I.
To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dark. [Little used.]

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