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Meanings of adust in English

Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.

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                Usage of adust in English
                1
                But the Rockvilles were each and all of this adust description.
                International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1,...
                2
                He spared no pains, for he was adust and athirst for the winning-post.
                The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
                3
                The Oxford scholar long ago, as described by Chaucer, was adust and thin.
                The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 / A Magazi...
                4
                All adust and athirst, the two entered the wine-shop.
                A Tale of Two Cities
                5
                Still I am not quite sorry to enjoy the weather of adust climates without their tempests and insects.
                The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
                6
                He was of choleric complexion, adust, lean, wasted, with sunken eyes and snow-white hair, looking ten years older than he really was.
                Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 6 and 7 (of 7) / The Catholic Reac...
                Frequent collocations
                Adust through the time