Dusk
[dʌsk]
Definition
(a.) Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
(n.) Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening.
(n.) A darkish color.
(v. t.) To make dusk.
(v. i.) To grow dusk.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Twilight.
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Definition
adj. darkish: of a dark colour.—n. twilight: partial darkness: darkness of the colour.—v.t. to occasion a dusky appearance.—v.i. Dusk′en to grow dark.—adv. Dusk′ily.—n. Dusk′iness.—adj. Dusk′ish rather dusky: slightly dark or black.—adv. Dusk′ishly.—n. Dusk′ishness.—adv. Dusk′ly.—n. Dusk′ness.—adj. Dusk′y partially dark or obscure: dark-coloured: sad: gloomy.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
This is a dream of sadness; it portends an early decline and unrequited hopes. Dark outlook for trade and pursuits of any nature is prolonged by this dream.
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Examples
- Very fair, we get there about dusk. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- One afternoon, late in the month of February, I came ashore at the wharf at dusk. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It was her favorite way of spending the hour of dusk. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- If she lingered much later dusk would draw on, and Fanny would be put to the trouble of coming to fetch her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I often walked all day, through the burning noon and the arid afternoon, and the dusk evening, and came back with moonrise. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Dusk The wretched wife of the innocent man thus doomed to die, fell under the sentence, as if she had been mortally stricken. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- They're pretty well known to be out on the marshes still, and they won't try to get clear of 'em before dusk. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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