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a.
Being of a dark hue or dusky complexion; tawny; swart; as, swarthy faces.
n.
Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening.
n.
Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.
n.
An African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the storks and herons. It is dull dusky brown, and has a large occipital crest. Called also umbrette, umbre, and umber bird.
a.
Of or pertaining to umber; resembling umber; olive-brown; dark brown; dark; dusky.
n.
An acute specific disease with a dusky red cutaneous eruption resembling that of measles, but unattended by catarrhal symptoms; -- called also German measles.
v. i.
To grow dusk.
adv.
In a dusky manner.
v. t.
To make dusk.
a.
Somewhat dusky.
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Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown.
v. t.
To make dusk or obscure.
n.
The quality or state of being swarthy; a dusky or dark complexion; tawniness.
n.
The state of being dusky.
n.
Any one of numerous species of long-winged oceanic birds of the genus Puffinus and related genera. They are allied to the petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater (P. Anglorum), the dusky shearwater (P. obscurus), and the greater shearwater (P. major), are well-known species of the North Atlantic. See Hagdon.
a.
Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
adv.
In a swarthy manner; with a tawny hue; duskily.
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Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious.
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Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley.
n.
Duskiness.
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