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uck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race. If you're plucky, and not over subject to fright. Barham.

Full of pocks; affected with smallpox or other eruptive disease. Bp. Hall.

Confined; cramped. [Prov. Eng.]

Stiff and sharp; prickly. Holland.

Shaky, or tremulous; quaking.

Full of quirks; tricky; as, a quirky lawyer.

Soiled with smoke or steam; smoky; foul. Shak.

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

Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks; as, a rocky mountain; a rocky shore.

Misty; foggy; cloudy. [Prov. Eng.] Ray.

Misty; gloomy. [Obs.] Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood. Shak.

Same as Saker. [Obs.]

Thin; lean. [Scot.]

Shaking or trembling; as, a shaky spot in a marsh; a shaky hand. Thackeray.

Disposed to shirk. [Colloq.]

Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; silken; silklike; as, a silky luster.

A cloud. [Obs.] [A wind] that blew so hideously and high, That it ne lefte not a sky In all the welkin long and broad. Chaucer.

A person licensed as a pilot. [Slang]

Having the blue color of the sky; azure; as, a sky-blue stone. Wordsworth.

, adv. & a. Very high. [Colloq.]