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.
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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.
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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.
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Dusk, v. i. To grow dusk. [R.]
Chaucer.
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