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What does adust mean?

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Adjective
  1. (medicine) Abnormally dark or over-concentrated; associated with various states of discomfort or illness (specifically being too hot or dry). [from 15th c.]
  2. (by extension) Hot and dry; thirsty or parched.
  3. (now rare) Burnt or having a scorched color. [from 15th c.]
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Blondel took up the word, his eyes sparkling, his adust complexion heated and full of fire.
But if it be stopped, and cannot have his way, it becometh adust, and thereby malign and venomous.
The Oxford scholar long ago, as described by Chaucer, was adust and thin.
Sneek's Tonematrix allows users to add notes, adust two waveforms for unique synth sounds, and add four effects—reverb, delay, cutoff and a custom effect.
Adust only those controls specified in the operating instructions.
The last two, he says, are particularly dangerous because they cause the humors to turn inward and become adust.

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