v. i. To grow dusk. [ R. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ OE. dusc, dosc, deosc; cf. dial. Sw. duska to drizzle, dusk a slight shower. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;. ] Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky. [ 1913 Webster ]
A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
Whose duck set off the whiteness of the skin. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To make dusk. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]
After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To make dusk or obscure. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Not utterly defaced, but only duskened. Nicolls. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a dusky manner. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state of being dusky. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Somewhat dusky. “ Duskish smoke.” Spenser. --
n. Duskiness. [ R. ] Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
Through dusky lane and wrangling mart. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]
When Jove in dusky clouds involves the sky. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
The figure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]
This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy prospect. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]
Though dusky wits dare scorn astrology. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]