Definition of dry

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Dry (superl.) Characterized by a quality somewhat severe, grave, or hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as, a dry tone or manner; dry wit..

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Damp :: Damp (superl.) Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist; humid.
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..
Harlotry :: Harlotry (n.) Ribaldry; buffoonery; a ribald story.
Moistless :: Moistless (a.) Without moisture; dry.
Gloom :: Gloom (n.) In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven..
Stillness :: Stillion (n.) A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying..
Dryad :: Dryad (n.) A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.
Smouldry :: Smouldry (a.) See Smoldry.
Drier :: Drier (n.) Drying oil; a substance mingled with the oil used in oil painting to make it dry quickly.
Thrive :: Thrive (v. i.) To prosper by industry, economy, and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate; as, a farmer thrives by good husbandry..
Bath :: Bath (n.) A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure..
Driest :: Driest (superl.) of Dry, a..
Arid :: Arid (a.) Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren.
Reliction :: Reliction (n.) A leaving dry; a recession of the sea or other water, leaving dry land; land left uncovered by such recession..
Polyandry :: Polyandry (n.) The possession by a woman of more than one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with monandry.
Comfit :: Comfit (v. t.) To preserve dry with sugar.
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..
Drupe :: Drupe (n.) A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut..
Gulch :: Gulch (n.) A ravine, or part of the deep bed of a torrent when dry; a gully..
Fanega :: Fanega (n.) A dry measure in Spain and Spanish America, varying from 1/ to 2/ bushels; also, a measure of land..
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