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4 words match “FUSCOUS”

FUSCOUS a.
Brown or grayish black; darkish. Sad and fuscous colors, as black or brown, or deep purple and the like. Burke.
SUBFUSCOUS a.
Duskish; moderately dark; brownish; tawny.
ROCK n.
owing on rocks in the northen parts of America, and forming broad, flat, coriaceous, dark fuscous or blackish expansions. It has been used as food in cases of extremity. -- Rock trout (Zoöl.), any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Hexagrammus, family Chiradæ, native of the North Pacific coasts;…
SUBFUSK a.
Subfuscous. [Obs.] Tatler.