Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
DUSK
twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle
(noun) the time of day immediately following sunset; “he loved the twilight”; “they finished before the fall of night”
dusk
(verb) become dusk
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
dusk (countable and uncountable, plural dusks)
A period of time at the end of day when the sun is below the horizon but before the full onset of night, especially the darker part of twilight.
A darkish colour.
Synonyms
• (period of time): evenfall, nightfall, smokefall, vespers; see also dusk
Antonyms
• (period of time): dawn, daybreak; see also dawn
Hypernyms
• (period of time): twilight; see also twilight
Hyponyms
• astronomical dusk
• civil dusk
• nautical dusk
Verb
dusk (third-person singular simple present dusks, present participle dusking, simple past and past participle dusked)
(intransitive) To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
(transitive) To make dusk.
Adjective
dusk (comparative dusker, superlative duskest)
Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
Anagrams
• skud
Source: Wiktionary
Dusk, a. Etym: [OE. dusc, dosc, deosc; cf. dial. Sw. duska to drizzle, dusk a slight shower.
Definition: Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky. A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. Milton.
Dusk, n.
1. Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening.
2. A darkish color. Whose duck set off the whiteness of the skin. Dryden.
Dusk, v. t.
Definition: To make dusk. [Archaic] After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth. Holland.
Dusk, v. i.
Definition: To grow dusk. [R.] Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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