单词 | adust |
释义 | adust (once / 105530 pages) adj WORD FAMILY adust USAGE EXAMPLESA tall, thin man, of an adust complexion. Webster, Noah, Webster's Unabridged Dictionary(2012) Men who are fed with carnivorous aliments, and drenched with spirituous liquors, have a sharp adust blood, which turns their brains a hundred different ways. , Voltaire's Romances, Complete in On...(2011) The dreamy mist of graceful cobwebs, festooning and fantastic, and many a tiny window all adust, softened his brilliancy to a dim, religious light. Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No...(2010) 1adj dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight a vast desert all adust Syn baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked dry free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet 2adj burned brown by the sun "of an adust complexion"- Sir Walter Scott Syn brunet, brunette marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes |
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