Hypertext Webster Gateway: "adust"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Adust \A*dust"\, a. [L. adustus, p. p. of adurere: cf. F.
aduste.]
1. Inflamed or scorched; fiery. ``The Libyan air adust.''
--Milton.
2. Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt.
A tall, thin man, of an adust complexion. --Sir W.
Scott.
3. (Med.) Having much heat in the constitution and little
serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow;
gloomy.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
adust
adj 1: dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; "a vast
desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat";
"parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare";
"sunbaked salt flats" [syn: {baked}, {parched}, {scorched},
{sunbaked}]
2: (archaic) burned brown by the sun; "of an adust complexion"-
Sir Walter Scott
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