Meaning of DUSK
| Pronunciation: | | dusk
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- [n] a state of diffused or dim illumination
- [n] the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"
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| | Synonyms: | | evenfall, fall, gloaming, nightfall, twilight, twilight |
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| | See Also: | | eve, evening, eventide, hour, night, semidarkness, time of day | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
\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.
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| | Definition: | | Seeing the dusk of day in your dream means defeated hopes and a dark, gloom outlook in your endeavors. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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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