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.