DUSKER

Adjective

dusker

comparative form of dusk

Anagrams

• Kuders, rusked

Source: Wiktionary


DUSK

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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