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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the time of day immediately following sunset;
- Example: "he loved the twilight"
- Example: "they finished before the fall of night"
[syn: twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle]


VERB (1)

1. become dusk;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Dusk \Dusk\, n. 1. Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening. [1913 Webster] 2. A darkish color. [1913 Webster] Whose duck set off the whiteness of the skin. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Dusk \Dusk\, v. t. To make dusk. [Archaic] [1913 Webster] After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth. --Holland. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Dusk \Dusk\, v. i. To grow dusk. [R.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

dusk n 1: the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn: twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle] v 1: become dusk