Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DUSK
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.
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