Crossword clues for adust
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adust \A*dust"\, a. [L. adustus, p. p. of adurere: cf. F. aduste.]
Inflamed or scorched; fiery. ``The Libyan air adust.''
--Milton.-
Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt.
A tall, thin man, of an adust complexion.
--Sir W. Scott. (Med.) Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context medicine historical English) Describing a bodily humour which is abnormally dark or over-concentrated, associated with various states of discomfort or illness (specifically being too hot or dry). (Chiefly as postmodifier.) (from 15th c.) 2 (context now rare English) burnt or having a scorched color. (from 15th c.)
WordNet
Usage examples of "adust".
He spared no pains, for he was adust and athirst for the winning-post.
Stripped and adust In a stubble of empire Scything and binding The full sheaves of sovereignty.
August flares adust and torrid, But my heart is full of April Sap and sweetness.
Stripped and adust In a stubble of empire, Scything and binding The full sheaves of sovranty: Thus, O, thus gloriously, Shall you fulfil yourselves!
Here is the Park, And O, the languid midsummer wafts adust, The tired midsummer blooms!
Now, in the case of a debilitated female patient, a physician naturally thinks first of chlorosis or the fluor albus or some other such adust ion of the womb.
He spared no pains, for he was adust and athirst for the winning-post.
Stripped and adust In a stubble of empire Scything and binding The full sheaves of sovereignty.
August flares adust and torrid, But my heart is full of April Sap and sweetness.
Stripped and adust In a stubble of empire, Scything and binding The full sheaves of sovranty: Thus, O, thus gloriously, Shall you fulfil yourselves!
Sulphurous and Nitrous Foame They found, they mingl'd, and with suttle Art, Concocted and adusted they reduc'd To blackest grain, and into store conveyd: Part hidd'n veins diggd up (nor hath this Earth Entrails unlike) of Mineral and Stone, Whereof to found thir Engins and thir Balls Of missive ruin.
The gunner glared down the barrel with its simple notch-and-blade sights, then stepped back and adusted the wedge under the breech of the cannon that controlled its elevation.