adust (adj.)

  1. 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: baked , parched , scorched , sunbaked ]

  2. burned brown by the sun; of an adust complexion- Sir Walter Scott

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