Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DUSK – DU'TE-OUS-NESS
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DUSK, a. [D. duister; G. düster; Russ. tusk, tarnish; tusknu, to tarnish, to become dull or obscure. Qu. Gr. δασυς.]
- Tending to darkness, or moderately dark.
- Tending to a dark or black color; moderately black. – Milton.
DUSK, n.
- A tending to darkness; incipient or imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening. – Sherwood.
- Tendency to a black color; darkness of color. Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin. – Dryden.
DUSK, v.i.
To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dark. [Little used.]
DUSK, v.t.
To make dusky. [Little used.]
DUSK'I-LY, adv.
With partial darkness; with a tendency to blackness or darkness. – Sherwood.
DUSK'I-NESS, n.
Incipient or partial darkness; a slight or moderate degree of darkness or blackness.
DUSK'ISH, a.
Moderately dusky; partially obscure; slightly dark or black; as, duskish smoke. – Spenser. Duskish tincture. – Wotton.
DUSK'ISH-LY, adv.
Cloudily; darkly. – Bacon.
DUSK'ISH-NESS, n.
Duskiness; approach to darkness. – More.
DUSK'Y, a.
- Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; as, a dusky valley. – Dryden. A dusky torch. – Shak.
- Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. – Bacon. Dusky clouds. – Dryden.
- Gloomy; sad. This dusky scene of horror. – Bentley.
- Intellectually clouded; as, a dusky sprite. – Pope.
DUST, n. [Sax. dust, dyst; Scot. dust; Teut. doest, duyst, dust, fine flour.]
- Fine dry particles of earth or other matter, so attentuated that it may be raised and wafted by the wind; powder; as, clouds of dust and seas of blood.
- Fine dry particles of earth; fine earth. The peacock warmeth her eggs in the dust. – Job xxxix.
- Earth; unorganized earthy matter. Dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou return. – Gen. iii.
- The grave. For now shall I sleep in the dust. – Job vii.
- A low condition. God raiseth the poor out of the dust. – 1 Sam. ii.
DUST, v.t.
- To free from dust; to brush, wipe or sweep away dust; as, to dust a table or a floor.
- To sprinkle with dust.
- To levigate. – Sprat.
DUST'BRUSH, n.
A brush for cleaning rooms and furniture.
DUST'ED, pp.
Freed from dust.
DUST'ER, n.
An utensil to clear from dust; also, a sieve.
DUST'I-NESS, n.
The state of being dusty.
DUST'ING, ppr.
Brushing; freeing from dust.
DUST'-MAN, n.
One whose employment is to carry away dirt and filth. – Gay.
DUST'-PAN, n.
An utensil to convey dust brushed from furniture.
DUST'Y, a.
- Filled, covered or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust. – Dryden.
- Like dust; of the color of dust; as, a dusty white; a dusty red.
DUTCH, a.
Pertaining to Holland, or to its inhabits.
DUTCH, n.
The people of Holland; also, their language.
DU'TE-OUS, a. [from duty.]
- Performing that which is due, or that which law, justice or propriety requires; obedient; respectful to those who have natural or legal authority to require service or duty; as, a duteous child or subject.
- Obedient; obsequious; in a good or bad sense. Duteous to the vices of thy mistress. – Shak.
- Enjoined by duty, or by the relation of one to another as, duteous ties. [Little used.] – Shak.
DU'TE-OUS-LY, adv.
In a duteous manner.
DU'TE-OUS-NESS, n.
Quality of being obedient, or respectful.