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Look up: DUSK

  1. dusk
    [n] - a state of diffused or dim illumination
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Dusk
    Dusk adjective [ Middle English dusc , dosc , deosc ; confer dial. Swedish duska to drizzle, dusk a slight shower. ..........] Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky. « A pathless dese...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/133

  3. Dusk
    Dusk noun 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.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/133

  4. Dusk
    Dusk transitive verb 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.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/133

  5. Dusk
    Dusk intransitive verb To grow dusk. [ R.] Chaucer.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/133

  6. dusk
    1. Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening. ... 2. A darkish colour. 'Whose duck set off the whiteness of the skin.' (Dryden) ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  7. dusk
    verb become dusk
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  8. Dusk
    • (n.) A darkish color. • (n.) Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening. • (v. t.) To make dusk. • (a.) Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky. • (v. i.) To grow dusk.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  9. dusk
    (from the article `sunlight`) ...this long passage the dominant blue wavelengths of light are scattered and blocked, leaving the longer, unobstructed red wavelengths to reach the ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/d/85

  10. Dusk
    (from the article `Michelangelo`) The figures are among the artist`s most famous and accomplished creations. The immensely massive Day and Dusk are relatively tranquil in their ... ...Child with the Medici patron saints, Cosmas and Damian; and beneath the two sarcophagi respectively lie the recumbent figures of `Night` and ......
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/d/85

  11. dusk
    • the time of day immediately following sunset
    • a state of diffused or dim illumination

    Found on

  12. DUSK
    The period of waning light from the time of sunset to dark. Related terms: twilight and dawn
    Found on http://www.weather.com/glossary/d.html

  13. Dusk
    `Dusk` is the beginning of darkness in the evening, and occurs after twilight, when the sky generally remains bright and blue. `Civil dusk` is when the center of the sun reaches 6° below the horizon. This marks the end of the evening civil twilight, the point where artificial illumination is requ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusk

  14. Dusk
    (comics) `Dusk` was an identity used by several fictional superheroes in the Marvel Universe. It was eventually adopted by college student `Cassie St. Commons`, who appeared in the Marvel Comics` series, Slingers. Negative Zone: During one of his adventures, Spider-Man travelled to the...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusk

  15. Dusk
    (Badlands album) `Dusk` is Badlands`s third and final album. It was originally recorded in 1992-1993 as a demo to submit to their label. The demo tracks to Dusk were released posthumously on December 15, 1998. Track listing: All tracks by Ray Gillen & Jake E. Lee except were noted ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusk

  16. Dusk
    (The The album) `Dusk` is the 5th album by The The, recorded in 1992 and released by Sony Records in January 1993. The album peaked at #2 in the UK, and at #142 in America. In 2002 the album was reissued in remastered form on CD. Track listing: Tracks written by Matt Johnson. # "T...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusk



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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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