adust

UK /əˈdʌst/ US /əˈdʌst/
adj 3

Definitions

adj

1

Abnormally dark or over-concentrated (associated with various states of discomfort or illness, specifically being too hot or dry).

From melancholy aduſt ariſes one kind [of humour]; from Choler another, which is moſt brutiſh: another from Flegme, which is dull; and the laſt from Blood, which is beſt.

[S]o in fevers and hot diſtempers from choler aduſt is cauſed a blackneſſe in our tongues, teeth and excretions: […]

2

Hot and dry; thirsty or parched.

He was tired and adust with long riding; but he did not go home.

3

Burnt or having a scorched colour.

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