twilight


twilight (http://definr.com/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"