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 1913.