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[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.
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A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. --Milton.
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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.
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2. A darkish color.
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Whose duck set off the whiteness of the skin.
--Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dusk \Dusk\, v. t.
To make dusk. [Archaic]
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After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the
light of the moon must needs be under the earth.
--Holland.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dusk \Dusk\, v. i.
To grow dusk. [R.] --Chaucer.
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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