About The Word Adust
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Adust
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What's The Definition Of Adust?
[adj] (archaic) burned brown by the sun; "of an adust complexion"- Sir Walter Scott
[adj] 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Adust: baked | brunet | brunette | dry | parched | scorched | sunbaked Related Terms | Find terms related to Adust: See Also | Adust In Webster's Dictionary \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.
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