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Definitions for: Dusk
[n] a state of diffused or dim illumination
[n] the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.
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.
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.
Dusk, v. i.
To grow dusk. [R.] --Chaucer.
Synonyms: evenfall, fall, gloaming, nightfall, twilight, twilight
See Also: eve, evening, eventide, hour, night, semidarkness, time of day
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