Fusco, fuscas, fuscâre. To make browne, or darke of colour.Fuscantur corpora campo.Ouid.Diem fuscare.Ouid.Fuscat nube diem.Val. Flac.It ouercasteth the daye with a cloud.Lanugine fuscante malas. Luca. When a yong beard beginneth to couer his cheekes.Fuscandi cura coloris.Ouid.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
fusco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [id.]. I.Act., to make dark, swarthy, dusky, to blacken, darken (poet.). A.Lit.: fuscentur corpora campo, Ov. A. A. 1, 513: cutem pingui olivo, Stat. Th. 6, 576: lactea pocula sanguine puniceo (Massagetae), id. Achil. 1, 307: malas (lanugo), Luc. 10, 135; cf. dentes (inertia), Ov. A. A. 3, 197: diem (nube), Val. Fl. 1, 396; cf. Sil. 11, 270.—B.Trop.: quem ad hoc aevi nulla actuum culpa fuscavit, Symm. Ep. 1, 34; Sid. Carm. 7, 505.— II.Neutr., to become dark or swarthy: ne pulchrae fuscaret gratia formae, Stat. S. 3, 4, 66.