Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

color) 429. half light, demi-jour; partial shadow, partial eclipse; shadow of a shade; glimmer, gliming†; nebulosity; cloud &c 353; eclipse. aurora, dusk, twilight, shades of evening, crepuscule, cockshut time†; break of day, daybreak, dawn. moonlight, moonbeam, moonglade†, 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†, 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†; nebulous, nebular; obnubilated†, overcast, crepuscular, muddy, lurid, leaden, dun, dirty; looming &c v.. pale &c (colorless) 429; confused &c (invisible) 447.