Defn: A demon or spirit. See Deuce.
DUSK Dusk, a. Etym: [OE. dusc, dosc, deosc; cf. dial. Sw. duska to drizzle, dusk a slight shower.
Defn: Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black;
dusky.
A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. Milton.
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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.
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Dusk, v. t.
Defn: 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.
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Dusk, v. i.
Defn: To grow dusk. [R.] Chaucer.