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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. --Sir W. Scott. 3. (Med.) Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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: (archaic) burned brown by the sun; "of an adust complexion"- Sir Walter Scott
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