Pronunciation : Dusk
Part of Speech : a.
Etymology : [OE. dusc, dosc, deosc; cf. dial. Sw. duska to drizzle, dusk a slight shower.
Definition : Defn: Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky. A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. Milton.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Dusk
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Dusk
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: 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.
t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Dusk
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To grow dusk. [R.] Chaucer.
i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913