Dusk

//dʌsk// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.

    "A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades."

Noun
  1. 1
    The time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period. countable, uncountable

    "Witnessing the dusk gives a feeling of solace."

  2. 2
    the time of day immediately following sunset wordnet
  3. 3
    A darkish colour. countable, uncountable

    "Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin."

  4. 4
    The condition of being dusky; duskiness countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk. intransitive

    "I see the air benighted And all the dusking dales, And lamps in England lighted,"

  2. 2
    become dusk wordnet
  3. 3
    To make dusk. transitive

    "After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the Moone must needs be under the earth."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English dosk, dusk(e) (“dusky”, adj.), from Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”), from Proto-Germanic *duskaz (“dark, smoky”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwes-, related to *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, mist, haze”). Cognate to Latin fuscus (“dark, dusky”), Sanskrit धूसर (dhūsara, “dust-colored”), Old Irish donn (“dark”). Related to dye, dust and dun (see these for more).

Etymology 2

From Middle English dosk, dusk(e) (“dusky”, adj.), from Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”), from Proto-Germanic *duskaz (“dark, smoky”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwes-, related to *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, mist, haze”). Cognate to Latin fuscus (“dark, dusky”), Sanskrit धूसर (dhūsara, “dust-colored”), Old Irish donn (“dark”). Related to dye, dust and dun (see these for more).

Etymology 3

From Middle English dusken, from Old English doxian.

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