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  1. 1. a. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley. Source: opted
  2. 2. a. Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. Source: opted
  3. 3. a. Gloomy; sad; melancholy. Source: opted
  4. 4. a. Intellectually clouded. Source: opted
  5. 5. adj. lighted by or as if by twilight Source: wordnet
  6. 6. adj. naturally having skin of a dark color Source: wordnet
  7. 7. 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">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
  8. 8. j:100 s. lighted by or as if by twilight Source: ecdict

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