Helen Fenton

Adust: Definition and part of speech

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Adust

  1. a. Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy.
  2. a. Inflamed or scorched; fiery.
  3. a. Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Adumbration: Definition and part of speech

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Adumbration

  1. n. The shadow or outlines of a figure.
  2. n. The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.
  3. n. A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Adumbrate: Definition and part of speech

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Adumbrate

  1. v. t. To overshadow; to shade.
  2. v. t. To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.