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ADUST
adust
(adjective) burned brown by the sun; “of an adust complexion”- Sir Walter Scott
adust, baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked
(adjective) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
adust
(medicine, historical, usually postpositive, of a bodily humour) Abnormally dark or over-concentrated; associated with various states of discomfort or illness (specifically being too hot or dry). [from 15th c.]
(by extension) Hot and dry; thirsty or parched.
(now rare) Burnt or having a scorched color. [from 15th c.]
Anagrams
• duats, ustad
Source: Wiktionary
A*dust", a. Etym: [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.)
Definition: Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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