adust

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   burned brown by the sun

   of an adust complexion- Sir Walter Scott

2. 2
   adj

   dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight

   a vast desert all adust

3. 3
   adj

   Abnormally dark or over-concentrated (associated with various states of discomfort or illness, specifically being too hot or dry).

   From melancholy aduſt ariſes one kind [of humour]; from Choler another, which is moſt brutiſh: another from Flegme, which is dull; and the laſt from Blood, which is beſt.

4. 4
   adj

   Hot and dry; thirsty or parched.

   He was tired and adust with long riding; but he did not go home.

From Middle French aduste, and its source, Latin adustus (“burnt, scorched”), past participle of adūrere.

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