Adust

[A*dust·]

Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight

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Inflamed or scorched; fiery. "The Libyan air adust."

Adjective S.
burned brown by the sun; "of an adust complexion"- Sir Walter Scott

Adjective S.
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"


a.
Inflamed or scorched; fiery.

a.
Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt.

a.
Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy.


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.
3. (Med.) Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy.

Inflamed or scorched; fiery. "The Libyan air adust."

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