Definition of dry

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Dry (superl.) Of vegetable matter: Free from juices or sap; not succulent; not green; as, dry wood or hay..

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Sundry :: Sundrily (adv.) In sundry ways; variously.
Dry-fisted :: Dry-fisted (a.) Niggardly.
Drying :: Drying (a.) Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry.
Adustion :: Adustion (n.) The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried..
Offset :: Offset (n.) A more or less distinct transfer of a printed page or picture to the opposite page, when the pages are pressed together before the ink is dry or when it is poor..
Xerophagy :: Xerophagy (n.) Among the primitive Christians, the living on a diet of dry food in Lent and on other fasts..
Cartbote :: Cartbote (n.) Wood to which a tenant is entitled for making and repairing carts and other instruments of husbandry.
Tenter :: Tenter (n.) A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square..
Oven :: Oven (n.) A place arched over with brick or stonework, and used for baking, heating, or drying; hence, any structure, whether fixed or portable, which may be heated for baking, drying, etc.; esp., now, a chamber in a stove, used for baking or roasting..
Exsiccation :: Exsiccation (n.) The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture; state of being dried up; dryness.
Settle :: Settle (n.) To restore or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition; -- said of the ground, of roads, and the like; as, clear weather settles the roads..
Earth :: Earth (n.) The solid materials which make up the globe, in distinction from the air or water; the dry land..
Moistless :: Moistless (a.) Without moisture; dry.
Dry :: 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..
Indurate :: Indurate (v. i.) To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat..
Hazardry :: Hazardry (n.) Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling.
Blot :: Blot (v. t.) To dry, as writing, with blotting paper..
Hydrophobia :: Hydrophobia (n.) The disease caused by a bite form, or inoculation with the saliva of, a rabid creature, of which the chief symptoms are, a sense of dryness and construction in the throat, causing difficulty in deglutition, and a marked heightening of reflex excitability, producing convulsions whenever the patient attempts to swallow, or is disturbed in any way, as by the sight or sound of water; rabies; canine madness..
Sundry :: Sundry (v. t.) Several; divers; more than one or two; various.
Fordry :: Fordry (a.) Entirely dry; withered.
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