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.]

  1. Tending to darkness, or moderately dark.
  2. Tending to a dark or black color; moderately black. – Milton.

DUSK, n.

  1. A tending to darkness; incipient or imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening. – Sherwood.
  2. 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.

  1. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; as, a dusky valley. – Dryden. A dusky torch. – Shak.
  2. Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. – Bacon. Dusky clouds. – Dryden.
  3. Gloomy; sad. This dusky scene of horror. – Bentley.
  4. Intellectually clouded; as, a dusky sprite. – Pope.

DUST, n. [Sax. dust, dyst; Scot. dust; Teut. doest, duyst, dust, fine flour.]

  1. 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.
  2. Fine dry particles of earth; fine earth. The peacock warmeth her eggs in the dust. – Job xxxix.
  3. Earth; unorganized earthy matter. Dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou return. – Gen. iii.
  4. The grave. For now shall I sleep in the dust. – Job vii.
  5. A low condition. God raiseth the poor out of the dust. – 1 Sam. ii.

DUST, v.t.

  1. To free from dust; to brush, wipe or sweep away dust; as, to dust a table or a floor.
  2. To sprinkle with dust.
  3. 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.

  1. Filled, covered or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust. – Dryden.
  2. 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.]

  1. 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.
  2. Obedient; obsequious; in a good or bad sense. Duteous to the vices of thy mistress. – Shak.
  3. 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.