TWILIGHT
ADJECTIVES
1550 — CREPUSCULINE pert. to twilight; illuminated by twilight; dim, dusky .
1646 — CREPUSCULOUS of the nature of twilight; in a state between light and darkness; dim, glimmering, dusky, indistinct, obscure
1668 — CREPUSCULAR resembling twilight; dim, indistinct
1755 — CREPUSCULAR pert. to twilight
1869 — TWILIT lit by or as by twilight
1900 — IN THE DIM in the dusk or twilight → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
NOUNS
..900 — DAWING dawn, daybreak; morning twilight → obs. exc. Sc.
1000 — GLOAMING twilight, dusk, the fall of the evening; shade, dusky light
1387 — TWILIGHTING the evening twilight, from sunset to dark night → obs.
1398 — CREPUSCULUM twilight, dusk
1400 — CREPUSCULE twilight
1532 — TWINLIGHT twilight → obs.
1550 — CREPUSCULINE the morning twilight → obs.
1567 — DARKMANS the night, evening; also, twilight → thieves’ cant
1580 — GRISPING morning or evening twilight → obs.
1594 — COCK-SHUT the close of day; twilight → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1599 — OWL-LIGHT — OWL’S LIGHT the dim and uncertain light in which owls go abroad; a glimmering and imperfect light; twilight, dusk
1606 — GROPSING twilight → obs.
1606 — THE GROPSING OF THE EVENING dusk, twilight → Eng. dial. obs.
1606 — TWATTER-LIGHT twilight → obs.
1607 — TWITTER-LIGHT twilight → obs.
1613 — DAYLIGHT-GATE the going or close of the day; twilight; evening, dusk → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1665 — CREPUSCLE twilight
1696 — CANDLELIGHTING dusk; twilight; nightfall → Amer. dial.
1746 — DIMIT — DIMMET — DUMMET dusk, evening twilight; often in plural → Eng. dial.
.M18 — THE DARKS the night; occasionally also twilight → sl.
1753 — DARKEY — DARKY night; evening; twilight → criminals’ sl.
1785 — EVENING’S EDGE twilight, dusk, nightfall → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1785 — THE EDGE OF EVENING twilight, dusk, nightfall → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1790 — MIRKNING twilight, dusk → Sc.
1790 — MIRK-SHUT twilight, dusk → Eng. dial.
..19C — BOBLIGHT twilight → Eng. dial.
1810 — DIMPS — DIMPSE dusk, twilight → Eng. dial.
1814 — DARKENING twilight, dusk, evening → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1814 — EVEN-FALL the ‘fall’ or commencement of the evening; twilight
1815 — DAY-LIGHT’S-GATE twilight, evening, dusk → Eng. dial.
1819 — DELLIT twilight, evening, dusk → Eng. dial.
1821 — BETWEEN-LIGHT twilight → obs.
1829 — SHANK OF THE EVENING the latter part of the evening; twilight, dusk → Eng. & Amer. dial.
1837 — TEENING-TIME lighting-up time, twilight → Eng. dial.
1846 — DARKLINS twilight, dusk, the gloaming → Sc. & Eng. dial.
.M19 — DARKEE twilight → sl.
1853 — DAY-LIGHT-GOING twilight, evening, dusk → Eng. dial.
1853 — DAY-LIGHT-GONE twilight, evening, dusk → Eng. dial.
1858 — DUSKUS the point in the evening when most daylight has faded but before it is fully dark; dusk; the later part of twilight → Ireland
1862 — BETWEEN THE LIGHTS twilight → Eng. dial.
1864 — EDGE OF DUSK early evening, twilight → Amer. dial.
1867 — DEMPS — DEMPSE twilight, dusk → Eng. dial.
1867 — THE EDGE OF GLOAMING twilight, dusk, nightfall → Sc.
1874 — DAY-LIGHT-FALLING twilight, evening, dusk → Eng. dial.
1876 — MOCK-SHADOW twilight → Eng. dial.
1881 — THE EDGE OF NIGHT twilight, dusk, early evening, nightfall → Eng. & Amer. dial.
1885 — THE EDGE OF DARK twilight, dusk, nightfall → Eng. & Amer. dial.
1885 — THE EDGE OF DAYLIGHT morning twilight → Eng. dial.
1890 — CANDLELIGHT dusk, twilight → Amer. dial.
1892 — DIMPSY twilight, dusk → Eng. dial.
1898 — FIRST DUSK twilight → Amer. dial.
1900 — DAGLIE evening twilight → Sc. (Bk.)
1900 — DAG-SET the end of twilight → Sc. (Bk.)
1900 — DARK HOUR the evening twilight, gloaming → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 — DAY-LIGHTENING morning, twilight, daybreak → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 — DIM the midsummer twilight between sunset and sunrise → \Sc. & Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1900 — THE EDGE OF DAYLIGHT twilight, dusk, nightfall → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1914 — DAGALI the evening twilight → Sc.
1922 — FIRST DARK twilight → Amer. dial.
1925 — DAILYGONE — DAYLIGONE twilight → Irish sl.
1928 — EVEGLOAM evening twilight → Amer. dial.
1928 — GLOAM twilight → Amer. dial.
1928 — MORNGLOAM the morning twilight → Amer. dial.
1939 — PINK OF THE EVENING evening twilight → Amer. dial.
1945 — FUSSED DARK twilight → US Western sl. (Bk.)
1959 — CAT’S LIGHT twilight → Amer. dial.
1965 — BEFORE-DARK dusk, twilight → Amer. dial.
1967 — FIRST NIGHT twilight → Amer. dial.
1975 — EDGE OF NIGHT early evening, twilight → Amer. dial.
PHRASES
1832 — BETWEEN HAWK AND BUZZARD at twilight, when it is too dark to tell a hawk from a buzzard
Lexicophilia 