color) 429.
half light, demi-jour; partial shadow, partial eclipse; shadow of
a shade; glimmer, gliming†; nebulosity; cloud &c 353; eclipse.
aurora, dusk, twilight, shades of evening, crepuscule, cockshut
time†; break of day, daybreak, dawn.
moonlight, moonbeam, moonglade†, moonshine; starlight, owl's light,
candlelight, rushlight, firelight; farthing candle.
V. be dim, grow dim &c adj.; flicker, twinkle, glimmer; loom, lower;
fade; pale, pale its ineffectual fire [Hamlet].
render dim &c adj.; dim, bedim†, obscure; darken, tone down.
Adj. dim, dull, lackluster, dingy, darkish, shorn of its beams, dark
421.
faint, shadowed forth; glassy; cloudy; misty &c (opaque) 426;
blear; muggy†, fuliginous†; nebulous, nebular; obnubilated†, overcast,
crepuscular, muddy, lurid, leaden, dun, dirty; looming &c v.. pale &c
(colorless) 429; confused &c (invisible) 447.