adust [
ə'dʌst]
a. 烤干的, 阴沉的, 烧焦的
adust[ adj ]- dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
<adj.all>
a vast desert all adust
land lying baked in the heat
parched soil
the earth was scorched and bare
sunbaked salt flats
- burned brown by the sun
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of an adust complexion
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.