

The sound of birdsong in the brief dusk is a shock, an exotic reminder of lazy summer evenings long past.Įven when dusk is descending, he is never ready to leave.Q: Our homeowners’ association pool is only open from “dawn to dusk.” With the time change, it gets dark early. Magda Abu-Fadil: The Other Face of Hamburg (PHOTOS) Magda Abu-Fadil 2010

Its impressive network of canals may lack the gondolas of its Italian sister, but the view at dusk is pretty and romantic while standing on any number of foot paths and bridges dotting the city. The Watchman and Other Poems Lucy Maud 1916 m.-dusk Saturday and Sunday, $5 per boat).ĬOME, for the dusk is our own let us fare forth together, to dusk Monday-Friday in Lake Elizabeth on Pittsburgh's North Side, near the National Aviary (10 a. You can also try your hand at paddling through Kayak Pittsburgh, which offers free kayaking 4 p.m. noun the time of day immediately following sunset.verb intransitive to begin to lose light or whiteness to grow duskįrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.noun A period of time occurring at the end of the day during which the sun sets.noun Imperfect obscurity a middle degree between light and darkness twilight.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.adjective Tending to darkness or blackness moderately dark or black dusky.noun Tendency to darkness of color swarthiness.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.noun Partial darkness an obscuring of light, especially of the light of day a state between light and darkness twilight: as, the dusk of the evening the dusk of a dense forest.Dark tending to darkness dusky shaded, either as to light or color shadowy swarthy.To cause a dusky appearance produce a slightly ruffled or shadowed surface.To grow dark begin to lose light, brightness, or whiteness.To make dusky or dark obscure make less luminous.intransitive & transitive verb To become or make dark or dusky.noun The darker stage of twilight, especially in the evening.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
