What does "dusk" mean?
Dusk: Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening.
Additional senses
- 2.A darkish color. Whose duck set off the whiteness of the skin. Dryden.
- 3.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.
- 4.To grow dusk. [R.] Chaucer.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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