What is the meaning of adust?

adjective

  • Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
    • usage: "a vast desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat"; "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare"; "sunbaked salt flats"
  • Burned brown by the sun. "of an adust complexion- Sir Walter Scott
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