fusk, a. rare.
Also fusc.
[ad. L. fusc-us in same sense.]
Dark brown, dusky, fuscous. Hence † ˈfuskish a. Obs., somewhat dark or dusky; † ˈfusky a. Obs.—1 = fusk.
| 1563 T. Hill Art Garden. (1593) 13 The seeds be then ripe to be gathered, when the grapes bee full ripe, which ripenesse of them by their fuskish and browne colour..may be knowen. 1577 Dee Relat. Spir. i. (1659) 75 That about the center is of fuskish or leadish colour. 1599 A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 56/1 Till such time as the fuscke coloured oyle come therout. 1610 Tofte Hon. Acad. ii. 44 The dreadfull lodge of the fuskie daughters of blacke Night. 1657 Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 715 Verdigrease makes it sometimes citreous, sometimes fusk. 1669 Sir R. Paston in Sir T. Browne's Wks. (1848) III. 513, I found it, from itts fuscye red color, looke licke white lead ground with oyle. 1829 Lamb Let. to H. C. Robinson 27 Feb., Your strange-shaped present, while yet undisclosed from its fusc envelope. |