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.

Browne: halfe blacke like a More. Amictus fuscus. Tibul. Fusca caligo. Mart. A darke mist. Fusca cella. Mart. Color fuseus. Ouid. Cornix fusca. Cic. Equus fuscus. Ouid. A browne bay. Fuscum falernum. Mart. Fusca laterna. Mart. Darke. Nubila fusca. Ouid. Fuscus pilus. Plin. Violæ fuscæ. Claud. Violets of darke blewe colour. Fusca vox. Cicer. A lowe voice vttered in the throate, as one were halfe hoarse: an hollow voice.

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.