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