Definition of dry

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Dry (superl.) Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and of easy transition in coloring..

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Medium :: Medium (n.) The liquid vehicle with which dry colors are ground and prepared for application.
Hazardry :: Hazardry (n.) Rashness; temerity.
Sike :: Sike (n.) A gutter; a stream, such as is usually dry in summer..
Scarious :: Scarious (a.) Thin, dry, membranous, and not green..
Desiccate :: Desiccate (v. i.) To become dry.
Flask :: Flask (n.) The wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the cope or top; sometimes, the cheeks, or middle part; and the drag, or bottom part. When there are one or more cheeks, the flask is called a three part flask, four part flask, etc..
Insiccation :: Insiccation (n.) The act or process of drying in.
Tawdry :: Tawdry (superl.) Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors..
Season :: Season (n.) One of the divisions of the year, marked by alternations in the length of day and night, or by distinct conditions of temperature, moisture, etc., caused mainly by the relative position of the earth with respect to the sun. In the north temperate zone, four seasons, namely, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, are generally recognized. Some parts of the world have three seasons, -- the dry, the rainy, and the cold; other parts have but two, -- the dry and the rainy..
Waved :: Waved (a.) Having undulations like waves; -- said of one of the lines in heraldry which serve as outlines to the ordinaries, etc..
Yarrish :: Yarrish (a.) Having a rough, dry taste..
Indurate :: Indurate (v. i.) To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat..
Bath :: Bath (n.) A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure..
Shruff :: Shruff (n.) Rubbish. Specifically: (a) Dross or refuse of metals. [Obs.] (b) Light, dry wood, or stuff used for fuel..
Pod :: Pod (n.) A capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent fruit. See Illust. of Angiospermous..
Mealy :: Mealy (superl.) Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry, and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling meal; as, a mealy potato..
Dryly :: Dryly (adv.) In a dry manner; not succulently; without interest; without sympathy; coldly.
Dry-rub :: Dry-rub (v. t.) To rub and cleanse without wetting.
Arid :: Arid (a.) Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren.
Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather..
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