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Definition of Dusky
Dusky Dusky Dusk"y, a.
1. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky
valley.
Through dusky lane and wrangling mart. --Keble.
2. Tending to blackness in color; partially black;
dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. --Bacon.
When Jove in dusky clouds involves the sky.
--Dryden.
The figure of that first ancestor invested by family
tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur.
--Hawthorne.
3. Gloomy; sad; melancholy.
This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy
prospect. --Bentley.
4. Intellectually clouded.
Though dusky wits dare scorn astrology. --Sir P.
Sidney.
