dusk : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: dusk	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dusk n the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" Synonym(s): twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle v become dusk
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dusk \Dusk\, 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dusk \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dusk \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dusk \Dusk\, v. i. To grow dusk. [R.] --Chaucer.