Dictionary entry

Dusky

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.