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Mummify :: Mummify (v. t.) To embalm and dry as a mummy; to make into, or like, a mummy..

Playa :: Playa (n.) A beach; a strand; in the plains and deserts of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, a broad, level spot, on which subsequently becomes dry by evaporation..

Serf :: Serf (v. t.) A servant or slave employed in husbandry, and in some countries attached to the soil and transferred with it, as formerly in Russia..

Highlandry :: Highlandry (n.) Highlanders, collectively..

Creep :: Creep (v. t.) To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep..

Laundry :: Laundry (n.) A laundering; a washing.

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

Komtok :: Komtok (n.) An African freshwater fish (Protopterus annectens), belonging to the Dipnoi. It can breathe air by means of its lungs, and when waters dry up, it encases itself in a nest of hard mud, where it remains till the rainy season. It is used as food..

Yarrish :: Yarrish (a.) Having a rough, dry taste..

Sagebrush :: Sagebrush (n.) A low irregular shrub (Artemisia tridentata), of the order Compositae, covering vast tracts of the dry alkaline regions of the American plains; -- called also sagebush, and wild sage..

Monandry :: Monandry (n.) The possession by a woman of only one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with polyandry.

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

Comfit :: Comfit (v. t.) To preserve dry with sugar.

Dryfland :: Dryfland (n.) An ancient yearly payment made by some tenants to the king, or to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets..

Drought :: Drought (n.) Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity..

Costive :: Costive (a.) Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding.

Upland :: Upland (n.) High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry; -- opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, swamp, interval, and the like..

Chaldron :: Chaldron (n.) An English dry measure, being, at London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. Now used exclusively for coal and coke..

Barbecue :: Barbecue (v. t.) To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron.

Sere :: Sere (a.) [OE. seer, AS. sear (assumed) fr. searian to wither; akin to D. zoor dry, LG. soor, OHG. sor/n to to wither, Gr. ay`ein to parch, to dry, Skr. /ush (for sush) to dry, to wither, Zend hush to dry. Ã152. Cf. Austere, Sorrel, a.] Dry; withered; no longer green; -- applied to leaves..

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