Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.
The time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period.
Witnessing the dusk gives a feeling of solace.
From Middle English dosk, dusk(e) (“dusky”, adj.), from Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”), from Proto-Germanic *duskaz (“dark, smoky”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwes-, related to *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, m...
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A darkish colour.
Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.
The condition of being dusky; duskiness
After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the Moone must needs be under the earth.