Associations to the word «Adust»

ADUST, adjective. (medicine) (historical) (usually postpositive) Describing a bodily humour which is abnormally dark or over-concentrated, associated with various states of discomfort or illness (specifically being too hot or dry). [from 15th c.]

ADUST, adjective. (now rare) Burnt or having a scorched color. [from 15th c.]

ADUST, 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".

ADUST, adjective. Burned brown by the sun; "of an adust complexion"- Sir Walter Scott.