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Seah :: Seah (n.) A Jewish dry measure containing one third of an an ephah.

Gloom :: Gloom (n.) In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven..

Torrefy :: Torrefy (v. t.) To dry by a fire.

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..

Cartbote :: Cartbote (n.) Wood to which a tenant is entitled for making and repairing carts and other instruments of husbandry.

Costive :: Costive (a.) Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding.

Wet :: Wet (superl.) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid; as, the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed..

Drysalter :: Drysalter (n.) A dealer in salted or dried meats, pickles, sauces, etc., and in the materials used in pickling, salting, and preserving various kinds of food Hence drysalters usually sell a number of saline substances and miscellaneous drugs..

Thrift :: Thrift (n.) A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property; frugality.

Arefaction :: Arefaction (n.) The act of drying, or the state of growing dry..

Unliquored :: Unliquored (a.) Not moistened or wet with liquor; dry.

Phaeton :: Phaeton (n.) A handsome American butterfly (Euphydryas, / Melitaea, Phaeton). The upper side of the wings is black, with orange-red spots and marginal crescents, and several rows of cream-colored spots; -- called also Baltimore..

Samara :: Samara (n.) A dry, indehiscent, usually one-seeded, winged fruit, as that of the ash, maple, and elm; a key or key fruit..

Georgic :: Georgic (a.) A rural poem; a poetical composition on husbandry, containing rules for cultivating lands, etc.; as, the Georgics of Virgil..

Rustle :: Rustle (v. i.) To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves..

Monandry :: Monandry (n.) The possession by a woman of only one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with polyandry.

Yarrish :: Yarrish (a.) Having a rough, dry taste..

Dry :: Dry (v. i.) To shrivel or wither; to lose vitality.

Nettle :: Nettle (n.) A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the Northern, and U. chamaedryoides in the Southern, United States. the common European species, U. urens and U. dioica, are also found in the Eastern united States. U. pilulifera is the Roman nettle of England..

Balderdash :: Balderdash (n.) Senseless jargon; ribaldry; nonsense; trash.

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