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(), 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. スポンサード リンク
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