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2 definitions found 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 1.6 [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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