Definition of dry

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Dry (superl.) Characterized by a quality somewhat severe, grave, or hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as, a dry tone or manner; dry wit..

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Siccation :: Siccation (n.) The act or process of drying.
Siccate :: Siccate (v. t.) To dry.
Reliction :: Reliction (n.) A leaving dry; a recession of the sea or other water, leaving dry land; land left uncovered by such recession..
Coomb :: Coomb (n.) A dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter..
Homer :: Homer (n.) A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts..
Neat :: Neat (a.) Free from what is unbecoming, inappropriate, or tawdry; simple and becoming; pleasing with simplicity; tasteful; chaste; as, a neat style; a neat dress..
Steeler :: Steelbow goods () Those goods on a farm, such as corn, cattle, implements husbandry, etc., which may not be carried off by a removing tenant, as being the property of the landlord..
Gauntlet :: Gauntlet (n.) A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.
Cockle :: Cockle (n.) A hop-drying kiln; an oast.
Seerwood :: Seerwood (n.) Dry wood.
Thrift :: Thrift (n.) A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property; frugality.
Costive :: Costive (a.) Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding.
Hazardry :: Hazardry (n.) Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling.
Scurf :: Scurf (n.) Thin dry scales or scabs upon the body; especially, thin scales exfoliated from the cuticle, particularly of the scalp; dandruff..
Capsule :: Capsule (n.) a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the poppy, the flax, the lily, etc..
Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales.
Infumation :: Infumation (n.) Act of drying in smoke.
Bushel :: Bushel (n.) A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts..
Stillness :: Stillion (n.) A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying..
Upland :: Upland (n.) High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry; -- opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, swamp, interval, and the like..
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