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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)