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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
bad light, blackish, broad day, brown of dusk, brownness, caliginous, candlelight, candlelighting, cocklight, crepuscular, crepuscule, dark, dark-colored, darken, darkish, darkishness, darkle, darksome, darksomeness, dawn, day, day glow, daylight, dayshine, daytide, daytime, deadness, dim, dim light, dimmish, dimness, dimpsy, drabness, dullness, duskiness, duskingtide, duskness, dusky, evening, evensong, eventide, flatness, full sun, funereal, gloam, gloaming, gloom, glooming, gloomy, grave, green flash, grow dark, grow dim, half-light, lack of sparkle, lackluster, lifelessness, light of day, lower, lusterlessness, mat, mat finish, midday sun, murk, murkiness, murksome, murky, nightfall, nigrescent, noonlight, noontide light, obscure, owllight, partial darkness, ray of sunshine, sad, semidark, shine, sober, somber, somberness, sombrous, subfusc, sun spark, sunbeam, sunbreak, sunburst, sundown, sunlight, sunset, sunsetty, sunshine, swart, swarthy, tenebrous, twilight, twilighty, unilluminated, vesper, vespertine
Dictionary Results for dusk:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
dusk
    n 1: the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the
         twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn:
         twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall,
         evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle]
    v 1: become dusk

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dusk \Dusk\, a. [OE. dusc, dosc, deosc; cf. dial. Sw. duska to
   drizzle, dusk a slight shower. ???.]
   Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black;
   dusky.
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         A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. --Milton.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dusk \Dusk\, n.
   1. Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and
      darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening.
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   2. A darkish color.
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            Whose duck set off the whiteness of the skin.
                                                  --Dryden.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dusk \Dusk\, v. t.
   To make dusk. [Archaic]
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         After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the
         light of the moon must needs be under the earth.
   --Holland.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dusk \Dusk\, v. i.
   To grow dusk. [R.] --Chaucer.
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