Definition of drying

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Drying (a.) Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room..

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Towel :: Towel (n.) A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as the person after a bath..
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..
Exsiccation :: Exsiccation (n.) The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture; state of being dried up; dryness.
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..
Exsiccator :: Exsiccator (n.) An apparatus for drying substances or preserving them from moisture; a desiccator; also, less frequently, an agent employed to absorb moisture, as calcium chloride, or concentrated sulphuric acid..
Evaporator :: Evaporator (n.) An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat..
Ted :: Ted (v. t.) To spread, or turn from the swath, and scatter for drying, as new-mowed grass; -- chiefly used in the past participle..
Cure :: Cure (v. t.) To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay..
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..
Gloom :: Gloom (n.) In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven..
Tedder :: Tedder (n.) A machine for stirring and spreading hay, to expedite its drying..
Drying :: Drying (a.) Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room..
Arefaction :: Arefaction (n.) The act of drying, or the state of growing dry..
Exsiccative :: Exsiccative (a.) Tending to make dry; having the power of drying.
Parching :: Parching (a.) Scorching; burning; drying.
Insolation :: Insolation (n.) The act or process to exposing to the rays of the sun fro the purpose of drying or maturing, as fruits, drugs, etc., or of rendering acid, as vinegar..
Siccative :: Siccative (a.) Drying; causing to dry.
Hack :: Hack (n.) Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying..
Gauntlet :: Gauntlet (n.) A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.
Siccative :: Siccative (n.) That which promotes drying.
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