dusken (duskn)

[ I have known the male to sing almost uninterruptedly during the evenings of early summer, till twilight dusk ened into dark. Lowell . II. trans . To make dark or obscure. [Rare.] The sayd epigrame was not vtterly defaced, but onely duskened, or so rased that it myght be redde, thoughe that with some difficulty. Nicolls , tr. of Thucydides, fol. 163. teenth centuries. It is commonly represented as forged of a single piece, the fingers pa ing through an opening made at the end opposite the point, so that the grip con- sists of a rounded and perhaps leather-covered part of the blade itself. It is said to have originated in Bohemia. duset, n. An obsolete spelling of deuce1 . dush (dush), v. [E. dial., en ; appar.orig. a var. of da hen , daschen , dash: see dash .] I. trans . To strike or push violently. [Now only prov. Eng.] Thei du hed hym, the i da hed hym, Thei lu hed hym, the i la hed hym, Thei pu hed hym, the i pa hed hym, All sorowe the i saide that it semed hym. IMG:content-0107.png:[blocks in formation] The twilight deepened, the ragged battlements and the low broad oriels [of Haddon Hall] glanced duskily from the foliage, the rooks wheeled and clamored in the glowing sky. H. James, Jr., Trans. Sketches, p. 26. duskine (dus'ki-nes), n. Incipient or partial darkne ; a moderate degree of darkne or blackne ; shade. Time had somewhat sullied the colour of it with such a kind of duskine , as we may observe in pictures that have hung in some smoky room. Boëtius (trans.), p. 3 (Oxf., 1674). Mynours then mightely the moldes did serche, Ouertyrnet the toures, & the tore walles All du het into the diche, doll to be-holde. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 4776. II. in trans. To fall violently; dash down; move with violence. [Now only prov. Eng.] Such a dasande drede dusched to his herte That al falewit [fallowed) his face. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 1538. dusk (dusk), a . and n. [=E. dial. duckish (trans posed from dusk ); IMG:content-0108.png:[blocks in formation]