adust : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: adust	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
adust 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" Synonym(s): adust, baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked burned brown by the sun; "of an adust complexion"- Sir Walter Scott
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Adust \Adust"\, a. [L. adustus, p. p. of adurere: cf. F. aduste.] 1. Inflamed or scorched; fiery. [bd]The Libyan air adust.[b8] --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.