DUSK, adjective [G., tarnish; to tarnish; to become dull or obscure. Gr.]

1. Tending to darkness, or moderately dark.

2. Tending to a dark or black color; moderately black.

DUSK, noun

1. A tending to darkness; incipient or imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as the dusk of the evening.

2. Tendency to a black color; darkness of color.

Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.

DUSK, verb transitive To make dusky. [Little used.]

DUSK, verb intransitive To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dark. [Little used.]