dusk (dusk)

[ luminous. After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light Dr. H. More, Psychozoia, i. 22. dark; obscure; not luminous; dim: as, a dusky valley. Here dies the dusky torch of Mortimer, Chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort. Shak., 1 Hen. VI., ii. 5. He (Dante] is the very man who has heard the tormented spirits crying out for the second death, who has read the dusky characters on the portal within which there is no hope. Macaulay, Milton. Memorial shapes of saint and sage, That pave with splendor the Past's dusky aisles. Lowell , Under the Willows. 2. Rather black; dark-colored; fuscous; not light or bright: as, a dusky brown; the dusky wings of some insects. race. I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky Tennyson, Locksley Hall. A smile gleams o'er his dusky brow. Whittier, Mogg Megone, i. Here were the squalor and the glitter of the Orient the solemn dusky faces that look out on the reader from the pages of the Arabian Nights. T. B. Aldrich, Ponkapog to Pesth, p. 201. 3. Hence, figuratively, gloomy; sad. [Rare.] While he continues in life, this dusky scene of horrour, this melancholy prospect of final perdition will frequently occur to his fancy. Bentley, Sermons. of the moon must needs be under the earth. Holland. Du umierida. E ex, at all times his [Raleigh's] rival, and never his friend, saw his own lustre dusked by the eminence of his inferior. 2. To make dim. I. D'Israeli, Amen. of Lit., II. 266. Which clothes a dirkne of a forletyn and a despised elde hadde dusked and derked. Chaucer, Boëthius, i. prose 1. The faithfulnes of a wife is not stained with deceipt, nor dusked with any di embling. Sir T. Wilson, Art of Rhetoric, p. 55. Dusky duck. See duck . Du umiera (dus-ū-mē'rä), n . [NL. (Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1847; also Du umieria); named for the traveler Du umier .] A genus of fishes, in some systems made type of a family du umierid (dus-ū-mē'rid), n. A fish of the family Du umierida . Du umieridæ (dus-ū-mē'ri-dē), n. pl . [NL., Du umiera + -idæ .] A family of malacopterygian fishes, represented by the genus Du umiera. It is closely related to the family Clupeidæ , but the abdomen is rounded and the ribs are not connected with a median system of scales. The species are few in number; one ( Du umiera teres ) is an inhabitant of the eastern coast of the United States. II. in trans. 1. To grow dark; begin to lose Du umierina (dusu-me-ri nä), n . pl . [NL., light, brightne , or whitene . IMG:content-0106.png:[blocks in formation]