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A low, four-wheeled, open carriage, used in Russia, consisting of a kind of long, narrow bench, on which the passengers ride as on a saddle, with their feet reaching nearly to the ground. Other kinds of vehicles are now so called, esp. a kind of victoria drawn by one or two horses, and used as a public carriage in Germ…

Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley. Through dusky lane and wrangling mart. Keble.

To place in the sky or in heaven. [R.] "A thing enskied and sainted." Shak.

Inclined to frisk; frolicsome; gay. He is too frisky for an old man. Jeffrey.

Rough in tone; harsh; hoarse; raucous; as, a husky voice.

That which is restless and uneasy.

Among furriers, any of several Asiatic minks; esp., Putorius sibiricus, the yellowish brown pelt of which is valued, esp. for the tail, used for making artists' brushes. Trade names for the fur are red sable and Tatar sable.

Having an odor of musk, or somewhat the like. Milton.

Pestering; vexatious; troublesome. Used also as an intensive. [Colloq. & Low, U.S.] Judd.

Attended with risk or danger; hazardous. "A risky matter." W. Collins. Generalization are always risky. Lowell.

Having tusks. "The scar indented by the tusky oar." Dryden.

The lower region of the sky. Floating about the undersky. Tennyson.

A light carriage built for rapid motion; -- called also tim- whiskey.

A conspiracy of distillers and government officials during the administration of President Grant to defraud the government of the excise taxes. The frauds were detected in 1875 through the efforts of the Secretary of the Treasury. B. H. Bristow, and most of the offenders were convicted.

s, etc., especially in Scotland, Ireland, and the United States. In the United States, whisky is generally distilled from maize, rye, or wheat, but in Scotland and Ireland it is often made from malted barley. Bourbon whisky, corn whisky made in Bourbon County, Kentucky. -- Crooked whisky. See under Crooked. -- Whisky…

Drunk with whisky; intoxicated. [Humorous] Thackeray.

ormerly Abelmoschus- moschatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow.

. It is used for measuring changes of temperature produced by different conditions of the sky, as when clear or clouded.

A glow of refulgence in the western sky after sunset.

Amber color, or anything amber-colored; a clear light yellow; as, the amber of the sky.