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  1. 1. a. Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. A darkish color. Source: opted
  4. 4. v. t. To make dusk. Source: opted
  5. 5. v. i. To grow dusk. Source: opted
  6. 6. n. the time of day immediately following sunset Source: wordnet
  7. 7. v. become dusk Source: wordnet
  8. 8. Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky. A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. Milton. 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. 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. To grow dusk. [R.] Chaucer. Source: webster
  9. 9. Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black;dusky.A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. Milton. Source: adambom

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