What is "dusk"

Dusk \Dusk\, a. [OE. dusc, dosc, deosc; cf. dial. Sw. duska to drizzle, dusk a slight shower. ???.] Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.

A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.
--Milton.

Dusk \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 \Dusk\, v. t. 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 \Dusk\, v. i. To grow dusk. [R.]
--Chaucer.

c.1200, dosk "obscure, to become dark," perhaps from Old English dox "dark-haired, dark from the absence of light" (cognate with Swedish duska "be misty," Latin fuscus "dark," Sanskrit dhusarah "dust-colored;" also compare Old English dosan "chestnut-brown," Old High German tusin "pale yellow") with transposition of -k- and -s-, perhaps via a Northumbrian variant (compare colloquial ax for ask). But OED notes that "few of our words in -sk are of OE origin." A color word originally; the sense of "twilight" is recorded from 1620s.

1. Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky. n. 1 A period of time occurring at the end of the day during which the sun sets. 2 A darkish colour. v

2. 1 (context intransitive English) to begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk 2 (context transitive English) To make dusk.

n. the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn: twilight, gloaming, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle]

Dusk occurs at the darkest stage of twilight, or at the very end of astronomical twilight just before night. Pre-dusk, during early to intermediate stages of twilight, there may be enough light in the sky under clear-sky conditions to read outdoors without artificial illumination, but at the end of civil twilight, when the earth rotates to a point at which the center of the sun is at 6° below the local horizon, artificial illumination is required to read outside. "Dusk" is actually short for Astronomical Dusk, or the darkest part of twilight before night begins.

Dusk was an identity used by several fictional superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. It was eventually adopted by college student Cassie St. Commons, who appeared in the Marvel Comics' series, Slingers.

Dusk is Badlands's third and final album. It was originally recorded in 1992-1993 as a demo to submit to their label.

The demo tracks to Dusk were released posthumously on December 15, 1998 in Japan on Pony Canyon. A European release on UK-based Z Records, with different artwork, followed in 2000.

Dusk is the fourth studio album by The The, recorded in 1992 and released by Sony Records in January 1993. The album peaked at #2 in the UK, and at #142 in America. In 2002 the album was reissued in remastered form on CD.

Dusk is the time of day just after sunset.

Dusk may also refer to:

Dusk (branded as DUSK) was a Canadian English language Category B specialty channel owned by Corus Entertainment and Shaw Media. Dusk broadcast programming consisting of films, television dramas, and reality TV, and documentary-style television series from the thriller, suspense and supernatural genres.

Dusk is a studio album by American jazz pianist Andrew Hill recorded in 1999 and released on the Palmetto label.

Dusk is a marble sculpture by Michelangelo, datable to 1524-34. It is a pair with Dawn on the tomb of Lorenzo II de' Medici in the Medici Chapel in San Lorenzo in Florence.