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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 adust /əˈdʌst/
 (a.)烤乾的,陰沈的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 a·dust a.
 1. Inflamed or scorched; dried or darkened by heat. “The Libyan air adust.”  --AS
 2. Sunburnt. [archaic] --AS
    A tall, thin man, of an adust complexion.   --Sir W. Scott.
 3. Med. Looking or acting depressed; atrabilious; gloomy. [archaic] --AS
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 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