| slovo | definícia |
dusky
(encz) | dusky,setmělý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
dusky
(encz) | dusky,temný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Dusky
(gcide) | Dusky \Dusk"y\, a.
1. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky
valley.
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Through dusky lane and wrangling mart. --Keble.
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2. Tending to blackness in color; partially black;
dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. --Bacon.
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When Jove in dusky clouds involves the sky.
--Dryden.
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The figure of that first ancestor invested by family
tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur.
--Hawthorne.
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3. Gloomy; sad; melancholy.
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This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy
prospect. --Bentley.
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4. Intellectually clouded.
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Though dusky wits dare scorn astrology. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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dusky
(wn) | dusky
adj 1: 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"
[syn: dusky, twilight(a), twilit]
2: 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" [syn: {dark-
skinned}, dusky, swart, swarthy] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
dusky
(encz) | dusky,setmělý adj: Zdeněk Broždusky,temný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
dusky salamander
(encz) | dusky salamander, n: |
dusky shark
(encz) | dusky shark, n: |
dusky-footed woodrat
(encz) | dusky-footed woodrat, n: |
sandusky
(encz) | Sandusky,Sandusky n: [jmén.] příjmení, okres v USA Zdeněk Brož a
automatický překlad |
sandusky
(czen) | Sandusky,Sanduskyn: [jmén.] příjmení, okres v USA Zdeněk Brož a
automatický překlad |
dusky
(wn) | dusky
adj 1: 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"
[syn: dusky, twilight(a), twilit]
2: 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" [syn: {dark-
skinned}, dusky, swart, swarthy] |
dusky salamander
(wn) | dusky salamander
n 1: common North American salamander mottled with dull brown or
greyish-black |
dusky shark
(wn) | dusky shark
n 1: relatively slender blue-grey shark; nearly worldwide in
tropical and temperate waters [syn: dusky shark,
Carcharhinus obscurus] |
dusky-colored
(wn) | dusky-colored
adj 1: having a dark color [syn: dark-colored, {dark-
coloured}, dusky-colored, dusky-coloured] |
dusky-coloured
(wn) | dusky-coloured
adj 1: having a dark color [syn: dark-colored, {dark-
coloured}, dusky-colored, dusky-coloured] |
dusky-footed wood rat
(wn) | dusky-footed wood rat
n 1: a wood rat with dusky feet |
dusky-footed woodrat
(wn) | dusky-footed woodrat
n 1: host to Lyme disease tick (Ixodes pacificus) in northern
California [syn: dusky-footed woodrat, {Neotoma
fuscipes}] |
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