'adust' definitions:
Definition of 'adust'
(from WordNet)
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" [syn: adust, baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked]
adjective
Burned brown by the sun; "of an adust complexion"- Sir Walter Scott