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Dried

adjective

Not still wet. "A face marked with dried tears"

Preserved by removing natural moisture. Synonyms: dehydrated, desiccated. "Dried fruit" , "Dehydrated eggs" , "Shredded and desiccated coconut meat"

Dry

verb

(past & past part. dried; pres. part. drying)

Remove the moisture from and make dry. Synonym: dry out. "Dry hair"

Become dry or drier. Synonym: dry out.

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"Dried" Quotes from Famous Books

... his resourcefulness came to his aid. The happy idea occurred to him of painting his legs so as to resemble stockings. He went to his water-colour box, and dexterously painted them with black and white stripes. When the paint dried, which it soon did, he completed his toilet, met his sweetheart and went to Ranelagh. No one observed the difference, except, indeed, that he was complimented on the perfection of the fit, and was asked "where he bought his stockings?" ...

— James Nasmyth's Autobiography • James Nasmyth

... then ground up like flour and put in bags. All you had to do was to moisten it with water to eat it. All our flour came from that country, put up in sacks of fifty and one hundred pounds each, but we had no vegetables. One day we heard that they had dried-apple sauce at the hotel at Coloma for dinner. The next day, Sunday, three of us walked eight miles to get there to dinner to get a taste of it. We paid $2 apiece for our dinner, and they had the sauce; ...

— The Adventures of a Forty-niner • Daniel Knower

... ripened and falls, why does it fall? Because of its attraction to the earth, because its stalk withers, because it is dried by the sun, because it grows heavier, because the wind shakes it, or because the boy standing below wants to ...

— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy

... Mrs. Hanka dried her eyes beneath her veil and walked on. When at last she stood outside Tidemand's office she hesitated. Suppose he turned her out? Perhaps he even knew where ...

— Shallow Soil • Knut Hamsun

... tear-drop may be dried, And where the orphan wanders sad and lone, Where poverty its grieving head may hide, Will breathe the music of her voice's tone; And if her face was blest with beauty rare 'Mid gilded sighs and worldly vanity, When heavenly peace has left its impress there ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 • Various

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