roky

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It was the third of these "roky" nights, and the sea-fog poured along the land like vapour from an opened jar of chemicals.

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  1. Misty; foggy; cloudy. Ray. Roky, or mysty. Nebulosus. Prompt. Parv., p. 436. He … in a roky hollow, belling, heard The hounds of Mark. Tennyson, Last Tournament.

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  1. Also rooky, rooky; from Middle English roky, misty, from roke, mist: see roke and reek.
 

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