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Entry 5 senses · 4 variants Webster, 1913

Dusk

/dŭsk/ · IPA /dʌsk/
01 a. Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
  1. 1.
    Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
    “A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.” Milton.
02 n. Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening.
  1. 1.
    Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening.
  2. 2.
    A darkish color.
    “Whose duck set off the whiteness of the skin.” Dryden.
03 v. t. To make dusk.
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    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.
04 v. i. To grow dusk.
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    To grow dusk.[R.]