Definition of dry

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Dry (superl.) Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind; -- said especially: (a) Of the weather: Free from rain or mist..

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Corky :: Corky (a.) Consisting of, or like, cork; dry shriveled up..
Smoke-dry :: Smoke-dry (v. t.) To dry by or in smoke.
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..
Vat :: Vat (n.) A measure for liquids, and also a dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectoliter of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States..
Reliction :: Reliction (n.) A leaving dry; a recession of the sea or other water, leaving dry land; land left uncovered by such recession..
Drying :: Drying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dr.
Smouldry :: Smouldry (a.) See Smoldry.
Bawdry :: Bawdry (n.) Illicit intercourse; fornication.
Implement :: Implement (n.) That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, toll, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war..
Overdry :: Overdry (v. t.) To dry too much.
Harden :: Harden (v. i.) To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying..
Magnesium :: Magnesium (n.) A light silver-white metallic element, malleable and ductile, quite permanent in dry air but tarnishing in moist air. It burns, forming (the oxide) magnesia, with the production of a blinding light (the so-called magnesium light) which is used in signaling, in pyrotechny, or in photography where a strong actinic illuminant is required. Its compounds occur abundantly, as in dolomite, talc, meerschaum, etc. Symbol Mg. Atomic weight, 24.4. Specific gravity, 1.75..
Aridity :: Aridity (n.) Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought.
Fordry :: Fordry (a.) Entirely dry; withered.
Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To drain by emptying; to suck dry.
Desiccative :: Desiccative (n.) An application for drying up secretions.
Smut :: Smut (v. t.) Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.
Caryopsis :: Caryopsis (n.) A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc..
At :: At (prep.) The relation of some employment or action; occupied with; as, at engraving; at husbandry; at play; at work; at meat (eating); except at puns..
Sundryman :: Sundrymen (pl. ) of Sundryma.
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