Definition of dry

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Dry (superl.) Of persons: Thirsty; needing drink.

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Bawdry :: Bawdry (n.) The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust.
Dealer :: Dealer (n.) One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer..
Epha :: Epha (n.) A Hebrew dry measure, supposed to be equal to two pecks and five quarts. ten ephahs make one homer..
Meretricious :: Meretricious (a.) Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments..
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..
Catechu :: Catechu (n.) A dry, brown, astringent extract, obtained by decoction and evaporation from the Acacia catechu, and several other plants growing in India. It contains a large portion of tannin or tannic acid, and is used in medicine and in the arts. It is also known by the names terra japonica, cutch, gambier, etc..
Powder :: Powder (n.) The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust..
Corky :: Corky (a.) Consisting of, or like, cork; dry shriveled up..
Scoop :: Scoop (n.) To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry..
Dry :: Dry (v. i.) To evaporate wholly; to be exhaled; -- said of moisture, or a liquid; -- sometimes with up; as, the stream dries, or dries up..
Karreo :: Karreo (n.) One of the dry table-lands of South Africa, which often rise terracelike to considerable elevations..
Hack :: Hack (n.) Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying..
Desiccative :: Desiccative (n.) An application for drying up secretions.
Ribaldry :: Ribaldry (n.) The talk of a ribald; low, vulgar language; indecency; obscenity; lewdness; -- now chiefly applied to indecent language, but formerly, as by Chaucer, also to indecent acts or conduct..
Polyandry :: Polyandry (n.) The possession by a woman of more than one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with monandry.
Cab :: Cab (n.) A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints..
Tawdry :: Tawdry (superl.) Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors..
Core :: Core (n.) A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer.
Ribaudry :: Ribaudry (n.) Ribaldry.
Stove :: Stove (n.) A house or room artificially warmed or heated; a forcing house, or hothouse; a drying room; -- formerly, designating an artificially warmed dwelling or room, a parlor, or a bathroom, but now restricted, in this sense, to heated houses or rooms used for horticultural purposes or in the processes of the arts..
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