dusken

1. (transitive) To make dusky or obscure.Examples: "It was last seen and heard of by some macgillic-cuddies above a lonely valley of their reeks, duskening the greylight as it flew, its cry echechohoing among the anfractuosities: pour la dernière fois,' The blackbulled ones, stampeding, drew in their horns, all appailed and much upset, which explaints the guttermilk on their overcoats."; "Twilight began to dusken the quiet of the house."; "The sayd epigrame was not utterly defaced, but only duskened or rased."transitive

2. (intransitive) To grow or become dusky.Examples: "Noble you must be: noble too am I / If true the tale that Danewulf loves to tell / When twilight duskens round the crackling logs"; "He vanished so quickly that she looked down the duskening street in vain to see a stalwart officer, whom she had fully intended to accompany on his way to get a little better acquainted with him."; "When in a meadow, or, as now, in a quiet, already duskening wood, he would involuntarily begin to wonder if, through this silence, he might perhaps hear the entire, enormous world traversing space with a melodious whistle, the bustle of distant cities, the pounding of sea waves, the singing of telegraph wires above the deserts."intransitive