Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Twilight"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Twilight \Twi"light`\, a.
1. Seen or done by twilight. --Milton.

2. Imperfectly illuminated; shaded; obscure.

O'er the twilight groves and dusky caves. --Pope.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Twilight \Twi"light`\, n. [OE. twilight, AS. twi- (see {Twice})
+ le['o]ht light; hence the sense of doubtful or half light;
cf. LG. twelecht, G. zwielicht. See {Light}.]
1. The light perceived before the rising, and after the
setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18[deg]
below the horizon, occasioned by the illumination of the
earth's atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their
reflection on the earth.

2. faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which
anything is viewed.

As when the sun . . . from behind the moon, In dim
eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. --Milton.

The twilight of probability. --Locke.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

twilight
adj : lighted by or as if by twilight; "The dusky night rides down
the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the
twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"
[syn: {dusky}, {twilight(a)}, {twilit}]
n 1: a state of diffused or dim illumination [syn: {dusk}]
2: the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the
twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn:
{dusk}, {gloaming}, {nightfall}, {evenfall}, {fall}]
3: the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the
horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of
the earth
4: a condition of decline following successes; "in the twilight
of the empire"


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