Part 584

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.

Dusk"en (?), v. t. To make dusk or obscure. [R.]

Not utterly defaced, but only duskened.

Nicolls.

Dusk"i*ly (?), adv. In a dusky manner. Byron.

Dusk"i*ness, n. The state of being dusky.

Dusk"ish, a. Somewhat dusky. " Duskish smoke." Spenser. -- Dusk"ish*ly, adv. -- Dusk"ish*ness, n.

Dusk"ness, n. Duskiness. [R.] Sir T. Elyot.

Dusk"y (?), a. 1. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley.

Through dusky lane and wrangling mart.

Keble.

2. Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. Bacon.

When Jove in dusky clouds involves the sky.

Dryden.

The figure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur.

Hawthorne.

3. Gloomy; sad; melancholy.

This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy prospect.

Bentley.

4. Intellectually clouded.