| a. | 1. | Inflamed or scorched; fiery. |
| 2. | Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt. | |
| 3. | (Med.) Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy. |
| Adj. | 1. | adust - 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" |
| 2. | adust - burned brown by the sun; "of an adust complexion"- Sir Walter Scott |
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