Sekirov Dictionary

dusk

/dʌsk/

noun 3
verb 2
adjective 1
forms 6

noun3

•
The time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period.
- Witnessing the dusk gives a feeling of solace.
- We caught a beautiful view of the dusk.
•
A darkish colour.
- Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin. — 1700
The condition of being dusky; duskiness

verb2

•
To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
- I see the air benighted And all the dusking dales, And lamps in England lighted, — 1936
•
To make dusk.
- After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the Moone must needs be under the earth. — 1601

adjective1

•
Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
- A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. — 1671

forms

dusked · dusking · dusketh · dusks · dusker · duskest

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