Found 2 items, similar to adust.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: adust
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: burned brown by the sun;
“of an adust complexion”- Sir
Walter Scott
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Adust
Adust
\A*dust"\, a. [L. adustus, p. p. of adurere: cf. F.
aduste.]
1. Inflamed or scorched; fiery.
“The Libyan air adust.”
--Milton.
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2. Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt.
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A tall, thin man, of an adust complexion. --Sir W.
Scott.
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3. (Med.) Having much heat in the constitution and little
serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow;
gloomy.
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