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Season :: Season (v. t.) Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices; as, to season timber..

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

Desiccant :: Desiccant (a.) Drying; desiccative.

Desiccate :: Desiccate (v. t.) To dry up; to deprive or exhaust of moisture; to preserve by drying; as, to desiccate fish or fruit..

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

Torrid :: Torrid (a.) Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching.

Stillness :: Stillion (n.) A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying..

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

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..

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

Desiccant :: Desiccant (n.) A medicine or application for drying up a sore.

Consolidate :: Consolidate (v. i.) To grow firm and hard; to unite and become solid; as, moist clay consolidates by drying..

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..

Check :: Check (v. i.) To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc..

Hack :: Hack (n.) Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying..

Tedder :: Tedder (n.) A machine for stirring and spreading hay, to expedite its 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..

Exsiccant :: Exsiccant (a.) Having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up.

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..

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