#422. Dimness. -- N. dimness &c. adj.; darkness &c. 421; paleness &c. (light color) 429.
half light, demi-jour; partial shadow, partial eclipse; shadow of a shade; glimmer, gliming[obs]; nebulosity; cloud &c. 353; eclipse.
aurora, dusk, twilight, shades of evening, crepuscule, cockshut time|; break of day, daybreak, dawn.
moonlight, moonbeam, moonglade[obs], 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[obs], 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[obs]; nebulous, nebular; obnubilated[obs], overcast, crepuscular, muddy, lurid, leaden, dun, dirty; looming &c. v.