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verb

Dry v. t. (past & past part. dried; pres. part. drying) To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay.

To dry up.

(a)

To scorch or parch with thirst; to deprive utterly of water; to consume. "Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst." "The water of the sea, which formerly covered it, was in time exhaled and dried up by the sun."

(b)

To make to cease, as a stream of talk. "Their sources of revenue were dried up."

To dry a cow, or To dry up a cow, to cause a cow to cease secreting milk.

Dry v. i.

To grow dry; to become free from wetness, moisture, or juice; as, the road dries rapidly.

To evaporate wholly; to be exhaled; said of moisture, or a liquid; sometimes with up; as, the stream dries, or dries up.

To shrivel or wither; to lose vitality. "And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him."

Dried v. Imp. & p. p. of Dry. Also a.; as, dried apples.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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