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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 desert, dusk with horrid shades.» Milton.
    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://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  8. Dusk
    `Dusk` refers to the twilight after sunset. `Civil dusk` is the time at which the sun is 6 degrees below the horizon in the evening. At this time objects are distinguishable and some stars and planets are visible to the naked eye. `Nautical dusk` is when the sun is 12 degrees below the horizon in the evening. At this time, objects are no longer distinguishable, and the horizon is no longer visible to the naked eye. `Astronomical dusk` is the t...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusk

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. dusk
    1. the time of day immediately following sunset
    2. a state of diffused or dim illumination

    Found on

  13. 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


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