adust Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
    parched; scorched; baked; sunbaked.
    • a vast desert all adust
    • land lying baked in the heat
    • parched soil
    • the earth was scorched and bare
    • sunbaked salt flats
  2. adjective satellite burned brown by the sun
    • of an adust complexion"- Sir Walter Scott

WordNet

A*dust" adjective
Etymology
L. adustus, p. p. of adurere: cf. F. aduste.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913