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play by James Kenney, entitled "Raising the wind." The name is applied to any needy, tricky, constant borrower; a confidence man.

Not bright or distinct; wanting luminousness or clearness; obscure in luster or sound; dusky; darkish; obscure; indistinct; overcast; tarnished. The dim magnificence of poetry. Whewell. How is the gold become dim! Lam. iv. 1. I never saw The heavens so dim by day. Shak. Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, T…

Quality of being dingy; a dusky hue.

Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty. "Scraps of dingy paper." Macaulay.

To destroy or disturb the comfort of; to deprive oas, a smoky chimney discomforts a family.

Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. [Obs.] An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day. Spenser.

To extend or expand itself. [R.] While tyrant Hdispreading through the sky. Thomson.

Cyanite or kyanite; -- so called in allusion to its unequal hardness in two different directions. See Cyanite.

's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky. [Slang]

To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble. Some dodging casuist with more craft than sincerity. Milton.

One who dodges or evades; one who plays fast and loose, or uses tricky devices. Smart.

A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs.

Sullen; morose. [Obs. or R.] The sulky spite of a temper naturally dogged. Sir W. Scott.

r; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like. Drifts of rising dust involve the sky. Pope. We got the brig a good bed in the rushing drift [of ice]. Kane.

See Drosky.

Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky. A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. Milton.

In a dusky manner. Byron.

The state of being dusky.

Somewhat dusky. " Duskish smoke." Spenser. -- Dusk"ish*ly, adv. -- Dusk"ish*ness, n.

Everywhere. [Obs.] The sky eachwhere did show full bright and fair. Spenser.