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.