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Mealy :: Mealy (superl.) Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry, and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling meal; as, a mealy potato..

Laudatory :: Laudatory (a.) Of or pertaining praise, or to the expression of praise; as, laudatory verses; the laudatory powers of Dryden..

Tawdry :: Tawdry (n.) A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general..

Dry Goods :: Dry goods () A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries..

Besmoke :: Besmoke (v. t.) To harden or dry in smoke.

Escroll :: Escroll (n.) In modern heraldry, a similar ribbon on which the motto is inscribed..

Calabash :: Calabash (n.) A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd..

Pentachenium :: Pentachenium (n.) A dry fruit composed of five carpels, which are covered by an epigynous calyx and separate at maturity..

Pint :: Pint (n.) A measure of capacity, equal to half a quart, or four gills, -- used in liquid and dry measures. See Quart..

Mars :: Mars (n.) The god of war and husbandry.

Parch :: Parch (v. t.) To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire, as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn..

Wash :: Wash (n.) A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire..

Aridity :: Aridity (n.) The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness.

Sea Horse :: Sea horse () A fabulous creature, half horse and half fish, represented in classic mythology as driven by sea dogs or ridden by the Nereids. It is also depicted in heraldry. See Hippocampus..

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..

Quirboilly :: Quirboilly (n.) Leather softened by boiling so as to take any required shape. Upon drying, it becomes exceedingly hard, and hence was formerly used for armor..

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

Clothesline :: Clothesline (n.) A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.

Bake :: Bake (v. t.) To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples..

Sike :: Sike (n.) A gutter; a stream, such as is usually dry in summer..

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