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Dusk   /dəsk/   Listen
noun
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."


verb
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."


Dusk  v. i.  To grow dusk. (R.)


adjective
Dusk  adj.  Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky. "A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades."





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"Dusk" Quotes from Famous Books



... over the crest of the Downs at a lurching gallop; down the ragged rut-worn lane, the dusty convolvuluses glimmering up at him in the dusk; past the squat-spired Church in the high Churchyard among the sycamores; down the rough and twisted Highstreet of Newhaven in the chill of that August evening, as no man had ...
— The Gentleman - A Romance of the Sea • Alfred Ollivant
... river's brim, Where Charon plies the ceaseless oar, Two mighty Shadows, dusk and dim, Stood lingering on the dismal shore. Hoarse came the rugged Boatman's call, While echoing caves enforced the cry— And as they severed life's last thrall, Each Spirit spoke one parting sigh. ...
— Poems • Sam G. Goodrich
... and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard the hoarse ...
— The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
... ease in that again. We walked back with the falling dusk—across a winter wheat field that lay in water like rice. The town came closer, and we smelled it. The cold mist in the air livened every odour. It is a clean little town as towns go, but we knew very well what the animals get from us.... I was thinking ...
— Child and Country - A Book of the Younger Generation • Will Levington Comfort
... of the passage. As the whole distance was thirty feet, I was so much exhausted by the time I reached the surface inside the cavern that I could not at first admire its wonders. My companions helped me to a ledge of a rock just visible in the dusk, where we stopped to rest ourselves. The subdued light within the cave was derived entirely from the reflection through the mouth of the submerged passage, and I was at first afraid that I should scarcely be repaid the exertion I had ...
— The Cruise of the Dainty - Rovings in the Pacific • William H. G. Kingston


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