DUSK, adjective [G., tarnish; to tarnish; to become dull or obscure. Gr.] 1. Tending to darkness, or moderately dark. 2. Tending to a dark or black color; moderately black. DUSK, noun 1. A tending to darkness; incipient or imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as the dusk of the evening. 2. Tendency to a black color; darkness of color. Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin. DUSK, verb transitive To make dusky. [Little used.] DUSK, verb intransitive To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dark. [Little used.]
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