Definition of Duky
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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Dimly lit, as at dusk (evening).
I like it when it is dusky, just before the street lights come on.
- A shade of color that is rather dark.
The dusky rose was of a muted color, not clashing with any of the other colors.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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