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Definition of dry

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Dry (superl.) Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind; -- said especially: (a) Of the weather: Free from rain or mist..

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Indurate :: Indurate (v. i.) To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat..

Sextary :: Sextary (n.) An ancient Roman liquid and dry measure, about equal to an English pint..

Husbandry :: Husbandry (n.) Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift.

Plough :: Plough (n.) Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry.

Trick :: Trick (v. t.) To draw in outline, as with a pen; to delineate or distinguish without color, as arms, etc., in heraldry..

Gully :: Gully (n.) A channel or hollow worn in the earth by a current of water; a short deep portion of a torrent's bed when dry.

Cuckoldry :: Cuckoldry (n.) The state of being a cuckold; the practice of making cuckolds.

Dry :: Dry (v. i.) To shrivel or wither; to lose vitality.

Sizzle :: Sizzle (v. i.) To make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up, with a hissing sound..

Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To become firm, dry, and hard, as the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared; as, the roads settled late in the spring..

Pectic :: Pectic (a.) Of or pertaining to pectin; specifically, designating an acid obtained from ordinary vegetable jelly (pectin) as an amorphous substance, tough and horny when dry, but gelatinous when moist..

Exsiccative :: Exsiccative (a.) Tending to make dry; having the power of drying.

Airing :: Airing (n.) An exposure to air, or to a fire, for warming, drying, etc.; as, the airing of linen, or of a room..

Dry-boned :: Dry-boned (a.) Having dry bones, or bones without flesh..

Bawdry :: Bawdry (n.) Illicit intercourse; fornication.

Desiccant :: Desiccant (n.) A medicine or application for drying up a sore.

Caryopsis :: Caryopsis (n.) A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc..

Arroyo :: Arroyo (n.) The dry bed of a small stream.

Bloat :: Bloat (v. t.) To dry (herrings) in smoke. See Blote.

Driest :: Driest (superl.) of Dry, a..