Definition of "dusk"

dusk

/dʌsk/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural dusks
1. The time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period.
2. A darkish colour.
  Quotations
  Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.
  1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
3. The condition of being dusky; duskiness
verb
third-person singular simple present dusks, present participle dusking, simple past and past participle dusked
1. (intransitive) To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
  Quotations
  I see the air benightedAnd all the dusking dales,And lamps in England lighted,
  1936, Alfred Edward Housman, More Poems‎, XXXIII, lines 25-27
2. (transitive) To make dusk.
  Quotations
  After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the Moone must needs be under the earth.
  1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, published 1635
adjective
comparative dusker, superlative duskest
1. Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
  Quotations
  A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.
  1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […]

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