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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Bounty :: Bounty (n.) A premium offered or given to induce men to enlist into the public service; or to encourage any branch of industry, as husbandry or manufactures..
Wash :: Wash (n.) A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire..
Vat :: Vat (n.) A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry..
Wallhick :: Wallhick (n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dryobates minor).
Waved :: Waved (a.) Having undulations like waves; -- said of one of the lines in heraldry which serve as outlines to the ordinaries, etc..
Ribaudy :: Ribaudy (n.) Ribaldry.
Highlandry :: Highlandry (n.) Highlanders, collectively..
Yarrish :: Yarrish (a.) Having a rough, dry taste..
Beath :: Beath (v. t.) To bathe; also, to dry or heat, as unseasoned wood..
Pory :: Pory (a.) Porous; as, pory stone. [R.] Dryden..
Squeaker :: Squeak (n.) A sharp, shrill, disagreeable sound suddenly utered, either of the human voice or of any animal or instrument, such as is made by carriage wheels when dry, by the soles of leather shoes, or by a pipe or reed..
Washhouse :: Washhouse (n.) An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry..
Guiacol :: Guiacol (n.) A colorless liquid, C6H4,OCH3.OH, resembling the phenols, found as a constituent of woodtar creosote, aud produced by the dry distillation of guaiac resin..
Check :: Check (v. i.) To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc..
Laundrymen :: Laundrymen (pl. ) of Laundryma.
Adry :: Adry (a.) In a dry or thirsty condition.
Meretricious :: Meretricious (a.) Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments..
Bake :: Bake (v. t.) To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples..
Roller :: Roller (n.) One who, or that which, rolls; especially, a cylinder, sometimes grooved, of wood, stone, metal, etc., used in husbandry and the arts..
Drysaltery :: Drysaltery (n.) The articles kept by a drysalter; also, the business of a drysalter..
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