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dusk adjective & noun.
[Old English dox rel. to Old Saxon dosan, Old High German tusin darkish (of colour), dull, from Germanic base repr. also by Latin fuscus dark, dusky. Metathesized in Middle English. Cf. DUN adjective.]
A. adjective.
Dark, shadowy; dusky. Now poet. OE.
Obscure, veiled from perception. ME-L16.
b. noun.
The darker stage of twilight; the time of this. E17.
R. L. Stevenson The mail picked us up about dusk at the Royal George. J. Wain The long golden evening gradually yielded first to twilight and then to a deep dusk, through which we could barely discern each other's faces.
Shade, shadow; gloom; duskiness. E18.
Tennyson In the dusk of thee [Old Yew], the clock Beats out the little lives of men.
dusken verb trans. & intrans. (rare, now poet.) make or become dusky or obscure M16.
duskly adverb (poet.) M19.
duskness noun (now poet.) LME.