Definitions for "Adust"
Inflamed or scorched; fiery.
Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt.
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"
Keywords:  sallow, atrabilious, gloomy, obs, serum
Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy.
Keywords:  complexion, walter, sir, scott, sun
burned brown by the sun; "of an adust complexion"- Sir Walter Scott