Part 3543

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; <as>as, the <ex>dusk</ex> of the evening</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A darkish color.</def>

<blockquote>Whose <b>duck</b> set off the whiteness of the skin. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Dusk</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To make dusk.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<blockquote>After the sun is up, that shadow which <b>dusketh</b> the light of the moon must needs be under the earth.

<i>Holland.</i>

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<hw>Dusk</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To grow dusk.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

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<hw>Dusk"en</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To make dusk or obscure.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>Not utterly defaced, but only <b>duskened</b>. <i>Nicolls.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Dusk"i*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a dusky manner.</def>

<i>Byron.</i>

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<hw>Dusk"i*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being dusky.</def>

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<hw>Dusk"ish</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Somewhat dusky.</def> " <i>Duskish</i> smoke." <i>Spenser</i>. -- <wordforms><wf>Dusk"ish*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Dusk"ish*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

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<hw>Dusk"ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Duskiness.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Sir T. Elyot.</i>

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<hw>Dusk"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; <as>as, a <ex>dusky</ex> valley</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Through <b>dusky</b> lane and wrangling mart. <i>Keble.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; <as>as, a <ex>dusky</ex> brown</as>.</def>