Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dusky"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

dusky
adj 1: lighted by or as if by twilight; "The dusky night rides down
the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the
twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"
[syn: {twilight(a)}, {twilit}]
2: naturally having skin of a dark color; "a dark-skinned
beauty"; "gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks";
"a smile on his swarthy face" (`swart' is archaic) [syn: {dark-skinned},
{swart}, {swarthy}]

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