ADUST

ADUST', adjective [Latin adustus, burnt, the participle of aduro, to burn.]Burnt; scorched; become dry by heat; hot and fiery.

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adust|adusted. Adust, or Adusted, pa. burnt or dried up, scorched

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A‐dust″ (�), a. [[L. adustus, p. p. of adurere: cf. F. aduste.]] 1. 1. Inflamed or scorched; fiery. “The Libyan air adust.” Milton.
2. 2. Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt.
A tall, thin man, of an adust complexion. Sir W. Scott. 3. 3. (Med.) Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy.