Usually means: Burned or scorched; darkened by heat.
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  1. adust: Merriam-Webster
  2. adust: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adust: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adust: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adust: Vocabulary.com
  6. adust: Wordnik
  7. adust: Wiktionary
  8. adust: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. adust: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Adust, adust: Dictionary.com
  11. Adust: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. adust: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. adust: Rhymezone
  14. Adust: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. adust: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. adust: FreeDictionary.org
  17. adust: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. adust: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. adust: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. adust: Merriam-Webster

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adust: Wordcraft Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (adust)

adjective:  (medicine, historical, usually postpositive, of a bodily humour) Abnormally dark or over-concentrated (associated with various states of discomfort or illness, specifically being too hot or dry).
adjective:  (by extension) Hot and dry; thirsty or parched.
adjective:  (archaic) Burnt or having a scorched colour.

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