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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Dusk

Dusk (dŭsk), a. [OE. dusc, dosc, deosc; cf. dial. Sw. duska to drizzle, dusk a slight shower. √71.] Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.

A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. Milton.

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.

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.

Dusk, v. i. To grow dusk. [R.] Chaucer.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.