Dusky : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Dusky	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Dusky
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dusky adj 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" Synonym(s): dusky, twilight(a), twilit 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" Synonym(s): dark- skinned, dusky, swart, swarthy
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.