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Hack :: Hack (n.) A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc..

Siccative :: Siccative (a.) Drying; causing to dry.

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..

Siccation :: Siccation (n.) The act or process of drying.

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..

Scrap :: Scrap (v. t.) The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat; as, pork scraps..

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..

Indurate :: Indurate (v. i.) To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat..

Drier :: Drier (n.) Drying oil; a substance mingled with the oil used in oil painting to make it dry quickly.

Harden :: Harden (v. i.) To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying..

Drying :: Drying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dr.

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..

Evaporator :: Evaporator (n.) An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat..

Kiln :: Kiln (n.) A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone..

Insiccation :: Insiccation (n.) The act or process of drying in.

Parching :: Parching (a.) Scorching; burning; drying.

Squill :: Squilgee (n.) Formerly, a small swab for drying a vessel's deck; now, a kind of scraper having a blade or edge of rubber or of leather, -- used for removing superfluous, water or other liquids, as from a vessel's deck after washing, from window panes, photographer's plates, etc..

Exsiccation :: Exsiccation (n.) The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture; state of being dried up; dryness.

Ustulation :: Ustulation (n.) The roasting or drying of moist substances so as prepare them for pulverizing.

Curer :: Curer (n.) One who prepares beef, fish, etc., for preservation by drying, salting, smoking, etc..

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