dusk

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
dusk
    n 1: the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the
         twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn:
         {twilight}, {dusk}, {gloaming}, {gloam}, {nightfall},
         {evenfall}, {fall}, {crepuscule}, {crepuscle}]
    v 1: become dusk
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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         A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. --Milton.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dusk \Dusk\, n.
   1. Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and
      darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening.
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   2. A darkish color.
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            Whose duck set off the whiteness of the skin.
                                                  --Dryden.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dusk \Dusk\, v. t.
   To make dusk. [Archaic]
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         After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the
         light of the moon must needs be under the earth.
   --Holland.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dusk \Dusk\, v. i.
   To grow dusk. [R.] --Chaucer.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "dusk":
      bad light, blackish, broad day, brown of dusk, brownness,
      caliginous, candlelight, candlelighting, cocklight, crepuscular,
      crepuscule, dark, dark-colored, darken, darkish, darkishness,
      darkle, darksome, darksomeness, dawn, day, day glow, daylight,
      dayshine, daytide, daytime, deadness, dim, dim light, dimmish,
      dimness, dimpsy, drabness, dullness, duskiness, duskingtide,
      duskness, dusky, evening, evensong, eventide, flatness, full sun,
      funereal, gloam, gloaming, gloom, glooming, gloomy, grave,
      green flash, grow dark, grow dim, half-light, lack of sparkle,
      lackluster, lifelessness, light of day, lower, lusterlessness, mat,
      mat finish, midday sun, murk, murkiness, murksome, murky,
      nightfall, nigrescent, noonlight, noontide light, obscure,
      owllight, partial darkness, ray of sunshine, sad, semidark, shine,
      sober, somber, somberness, sombrous, subfusc, sun spark, sunbeam,
      sunbreak, sunburst, sundown, sunlight, sunset, sunsetty, sunshine,
      swart, swarthy, tenebrous, twilight, twilighty, unilluminated,
      vesper, vespertine
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