Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky. A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. Milton.
Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening.
A darkish color. Whose duck set off the whiteness of the skin. Dryden.
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.
To grow dusk. [R.] Chaucer.
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