1.
[syn: adust, baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked]
2. burned brown by the sun;
- Example: "of an adust complexion"- Sir Walter Scott
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
adust \a*dust"\ ([a^]*d[u^]st"), a. [L. adustus, p. p. of
adurere: cf. F. aduste.]
1. Inflamed or scorched; dried or darkened by heat. "The
Libyan air adust." --Milton. --AS
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2. Sunburnt. [archaic] --AS
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A tall, thin man, of an adust complexion. --Sir W.
Scott.
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3. (Med.) Looking or acting depressed; atrabilious; gloomy.
[archaic] --AS
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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: adust, baked, parched,
scorched, sunbaked]
2: burned brown by the sun; "of an adust complexion"- Sir Walter
Scott