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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Evaporator :: Evaporator (n.) An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat..
Desiccant :: Desiccant (n.) A medicine or application for drying up a sore.
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..
Parching :: Parching (a.) Scorching; burning; drying.
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..
Arefaction :: Arefaction (n.) The act of drying, or the state of growing dry..
Baking :: Baking (n.) The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold..
Desiccant :: Desiccant (a.) Drying; desiccative.
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..
Indican :: Indican (n.) A glucoside obtained from woad (indigo plant) and other plants, as a yellow or light brown sirup. It has a nauseous bitter taste, a decomposes or drying. By the action of acids, ferments, etc., it breaks down into sugar and indigo. It is the source of natural indigo..
Scab :: Scab (n.) An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part..
Siccative :: Siccative (n.) That which promotes drying.
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..
Ustulation :: Ustulation (n.) The roasting or drying of moist substances so as prepare them for pulverizing.
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..
Indurate :: Indurate (v. i.) To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat..
Cockle :: Cockle (n.) A hop-drying kiln; an oast.
Exsiccative :: Exsiccative (a.) Tending to make dry; having the power of drying.
Check :: Check (v. i.) To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc..
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