adjective. Free from liquid or moisture.

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adjective. Having or characterized by little or no rain.

adjective. Marked by the absence of natural or normal moisture.

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adjective. Not under water.

adjective. Having all the water or liquid drained away, evaporated, or exhausted.

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adjective. No longer yielding liquid, especially milk.

adjective. Not producing a liquid substance that is normally produced.

adjective. Not shedding tears.

adjective. Needing moisture or drink.

adjective. No longer wet.

adjective. Of or relating to solid rather than liquid substances or commodities.

adjective. Not sweet as a result of the decomposition of sugar during fermentation. Used of wines.

adjective. Having a large proportion of strong liquor to other ingredients.

adjective. Eaten or served without butter, gravy, or other garnish.

adjective. Having no adornment or coloration; plain.

adjective. Devoid of bias or personal concern.

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adjective. Lacking tenderness, warmth, or involvement; severe.

adjective. Matter-of-fact or indifferent in manner.

adjective. Wearisome; dull.

adjective. Humorous in an understated or unemotional way.

adjective. Prohibiting or opposed to the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages.

adjective. Unproductive of the expected results.

adjective. Constructed without mortar or cement.

intransitive verb. To remove the moisture from; make dry.

intransitive verb. To preserve (meat or other foods, for example) by extracting the moisture.

intransitive verb. To become dry.

noun. A prohibitionist.

phrasal verb. To undergo a cure for alcoholism.

phrasal verb. To make or become unproductive, especially to do so gradually.

phrasal verb. To stop talking. Used especially in the imperative.

In pathology, not attended with suppuration, a fluid discharge or exudation, or hemorrhage.

noun. Dry land: as, to execute a piece of engineering work in the dry (that is, not under water).

To make dry; free from water or from moisture of any kind, and by any means, as by wiping, evaporation, exhalation, or drainage; desiccate: as, to dry the eyes; to dry hay; wind dries the earth; to dry a meadow or a swamp.

To cause to evaporate or exhale; stop the flow of: as, to dry out the water from a wet garment.

To wither; parch.

To evaporate completely; stop the flow of: as, the fierce heat dried up all the streams.

To lose moisture; become free from moisture.

To evaporate; be exhaled; lose fluidity: as, water dries away rapidly; blood dries quickly on exposure to the air.

To be wholly evaporated; cease to flow.

To wither, as a limb

To cease talking; be silent.

Without moisture; not moist; absolutely or comparatively free from water or wetness, or from fluid of any kind: as, dry land; dry clothes; dry weather; a dry day; dry wood; dry bones.

Specifically

In geology and mining, free from the presence or use of water, or distant from water: as, dry diggings; dry separation.

Not giving milk: as, a dry cow.

Thirsty; craving drink, especially intoxicating drink.

"You can dry them by shaking them up lightly in a large clean cloth, and you can spread them out and let them get _dry_ an hour or two before they are dressed."

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Sec.  adust  air-dried  air-dry  alcoholic  

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