free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet
<adj.all> dry land dry clothes a dry climate dry splintery boards a dry river bed the paint is dry
lacking moisture or volatile components
<adj.all> dry paint
opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages
<adj.all> the dry vote led by preachers and bootleggers a dry state
not producing milk
<adj.all> a dry cow
(of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation
<adj.all> a dry white burgundy a dry Bordeaux
without a mucous or watery discharge
<adj.all> a dry cough that rare thing in the wintertime; a small child with a dry nose
humorously sarcastic or mocking
<adj.all> dry humor an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely an ironic novel an ironical smile with a wry Scottish wit
not shedding tears
<adj.all> dry sobs with dry eyes
lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless
<adj.all> a dry book a dry lecture filled with trivial details dull and juiceless as only book knowledge can be when it is unrelated to...life
used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones
<adj.all> dry weight
unproductive especially of the expected results
<adj.all> a dry run a mind dry of new ideas
having no adornment or coloration
<adj.all> dry facts rattled off the facts in a dry mechanical manner
(of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish
<adj.all> dry toast dry meat
having a large proportion of strong liquor
<adj.all> a very dry martini is almost straight gin
lacking warmth or emotional involvement
<adj.all> a dry greeting a dry reading of the lines a dry critique
practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages
<adj.all> he's been dry for ten years no thank you; I happen to be teetotal
Dry \Dry\ (dr[imac]), a. [Compar. {Drier}; superl. {Driest}.] [OE. dru[yogh]e, druye, drie, AS. dryge; akin to LG. dr["o]ge, D. droog, OHG. trucchan, G. trocken, Icel. draugr a dry log. Cf. {Drought}, {Drouth}, 3d {Drug}.] 1. Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind; -- said especially: (a) Of the weather: Free from rain or mist.
The weather, we agreed, was too dry for the season. --Addison. (b) Of vegetable matter: Free from juices or sap; not succulent; not green; as, dry wood or hay. (c) Of animals: Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry. (d) Of persons: Thirsty; needing drink.
Give the dry fool drink. -- Shak (e) Of the eyes: Not shedding tears.
Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly. -- Prescott. (f) (Med.) Of certain morbid conditions, in which there is entire or comparative absence of moisture; as, dry gangrene; dry catarrh.
2. Destitute of that which interests or amuses; barren; unembellished; jejune; plain.
These epistles will become less dry, more susceptible of ornament. --Pope.
3. Characterized by a quality somewhat severe, grave, or hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as, a dry tone or manner; dry wit.
He was rather a dry, shrewd kind of body. --W. Irving.
4. (Fine Arts) Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and of easy transition in coloring.
{Dry area} (Arch.), a small open space reserved outside the foundation of a building to guard it from damp.
{Dry blow}. (a) (Med.) A blow which inflicts no wound, and causes no effusion of blood. (b) A quick, sharp blow.
{Dry bone} (Min.), Smithsonite, or carbonate of zinc; -- a miner's term.
{Dry castor} (Zo["o]l.) a kind of beaver; -- called also {parchment beaver}.
{Dry cupping}. (Med.) See under {Cupping}.
{Dry dock}. See under {Dock}.
{Dry fat}. See {Dry vat} (below).
{Dry light}, pure unobstructed light; hence, a clear, impartial view. --Bacon.
The scientific man must keep his feelings under stern control, lest they obtrude into his researches, and color the dry light in which alone science desires to see its objects. -- J. C. Shairp.
{Dry masonry}. See {Masonry}.
{Dry measure}, a system of measures of volume for dry or coarse articles, by the bushel, peck, etc.
{Dry pile} (Physics), a form of the Voltaic pile, constructed without the use of a liquid, affording a feeble current, and chiefly useful in the construction of electroscopes of great delicacy; -- called also {Zamboni's}, from the names of the two earliest constructors of it.
{Dry pipe} (Steam Engine), a pipe which conducts dry steam from a boiler.
{Dry plate} (Photog.), a glass plate having a dry coating sensitive to light, upon which photographic negatives or pictures can be made, without moistening.
{Dry-plate process}, the process of photographing with dry plates.
{Dry point}. (Fine Arts) (a) An engraving made with the needle instead of the burin, in which the work is done nearly as in etching, but is finished without the use acid. (b) A print from such an engraving, usually upon paper. (c) Hence: The needle with which such an engraving is made.
{Dry rent} (Eng. Law), a rent reserved by deed, without a clause of distress. --Bouvier.
{Dry rot}, a decay of timber, reducing its fibers to the condition of a dry powdery dust, often accompanied by the presence of a peculiar fungus ({Merulius lacrymans}), which is sometimes considered the cause of the decay; but it is more probable that the real cause is the decomposition of the wood itself. --D. C. Eaton. Called also {sap rot}, and, in the United States, {powder post}. --Hebert.
{Dry stove}, a hothouse adapted to preserving the plants of arid climates. --Brande & C.
{Dry vat}, a vat, basket, or other receptacle for dry articles.
{Dry wine}, that in which the saccharine matter and fermentation were so exactly balanced, that they have wholly neutralized each other, and no sweetness is perceptible; -- opposed to {sweet wine}, in which the saccharine matter is in excess.
Dry \Dry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dried}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Drying}.] [AS. drygan; cf. drugian to grow dry. See {Dry}, a.] 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. -- Is. v. 13.
The water of the sea, which formerly covered it, was in time exhaled and dried up by the sun. --Woodward. (b) To make to cease, as a stream of talk.
Their sources of revenue were dried up. -- Jowett (Thucyd. )
{To dry a cow}, or {To dry up a cow}, to cause a cow to cease secreting milk. --Tylor.
Dry \Dry\, v. i. 1. To grow dry; to become free from wetness, moisture, or juice; as, the road dries rapidly.
2. To evaporate wholly; to be exhaled; -- said of moisture, or a liquid; -- sometimes with up; as, the stream dries, or dries up.
3. 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. --I Kings xiii. 4.
Wine \Wine\, n. [OE. win, AS. win, fr. L. vinum (cf. Icel. v[=i]n; all from the Latin); akin to Gr. o'i^nos, ?, and E. withy. Cf. {Vine}, {Vineyard}, {Vinous}, {Withy}.] 1. The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment. ``Red wine of Gascoigne.'' --Piers Plowman.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. --Prov. xx. 1.
Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine. --Milton.
Note: Wine is essentially a dilute solution of ethyl alcohol, containing also certain small quantities of ethers and ethereal salts which give character and bouquet. According to their color, strength, taste, etc., wines are called {red}, {white}, {spirituous}, {dry}, {light}, {still}, etc.
2. A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine.
3. The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication.
Noah awoke from his wine. --Gen. ix. 24.
{Birch wine}, {Cape wine}, etc. See under {Birch}, {Cape}, etc.
{Spirit of wine}. See under {Spirit}.
{To have drunk wine of ape} or {To have drunk wine ape}, to be so drunk as to be foolish. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
{Wine acid}. (Chem.) See {Tartaric acid}, under {Tartaric}. [Colloq.]
{Wine apple} (Bot.), a large red apple, with firm flesh and a rich, vinous flavor.
{Wine fly} (Zo["o]l.), small two-winged fly of the genus {Piophila}, whose larva lives in wine, cider, and other fermented liquors.
{Wine grower}, one who cultivates a vineyard and makes wine.
{Wine measure}, the measure by which wines and other spirits are sold, smaller than beer measure.
{Wine merchant}, a merchant who deals in wines.
{Wine of opium} (Pharm.), a solution of opium in aromatized sherry wine, having the same strength as ordinary laudanum; -- also {Sydenham's laudanum}.
{Wine press}, a machine or apparatus in which grapes are pressed to extract their juice.
{Wine skin}, a bottle or bag of skin, used, in various countries, for carrying wine.
{Wine stone}, a kind of crust deposited in wine casks. See 1st {Tartar}, 1.
{Wine vault}. (a) A vault where wine is stored. (b) A place where wine is served at the bar, or at tables; a dramshop. --Dickens.
{Wine vinegar}, vinegar made from wine.
{Wine whey}, whey made from milk coagulated by the use of wine.
"You can bake them and boil them or dry them out, grind them up and put them in your cookies and cakes," Mr. Sroda says.
He noted that the Texas Panhandle, western Oklahoma area usually only gets about a half-inch of precipitation in February in a good year, so a dry month doesn't make much difference to the winter wheat crop.
The fuel from the first - lower interest rates - has probably run dry, although a distressing fall in January consumer confidence earlier this week did briefly revive speculation that the Fed would ease its monetary policy one more time.
In Rupert, with a population just over 600, many feel the real issue on the ballot has more to do with the local family feud than the issue of wet versus dry.
"He wanted good, dry wines," the indictment said, adding that the defendants obliged him.
Grain and soybean futures closed higher Friday on the Chicago Board of Trade with soybeans up sharply on fears of continued dry weather.
The show has been jazzed up in recent months with new graphics and backdrops, but it is still dry and focuses on agricultural reports and Politburo announcements.
Richard Loewy, president of AgResource Co., Chicago, said some analysts and speculators had predicted that the early-August dry spell would trim yields sharply below the level actually estimated in the government's September report.
Apply a spritz of foot deodorant or antifungal powder to keep feet dry and prevent odor or athlete's foot.
Since Richard Greenberg's adaptations stick closely to Kafka's texts, the piece preserves much of Kafka's dry, matter-of-fact tone.
In practice, this spells safe, swift overtaking on wet or dry roads. It also spells temptation.
Some soybean futures closed up the 30-cents-a-bushel daily limit Tuesday on the Chicago Board of Trade and grain futures also advanced sharply on renewed concern about dry weather.
The dry spell is occurring during the critical pod-filling stage of the soybean crop, in which the seeds in the pods develop.
The March hydrological outlook, usually an annual report on potential for spring flooding from snowmelt, this year is more a chronicle of missing snow and dry soil conditions.
Summer rain fell along the East Coast early today from New York to North Carolina, cloudy skies and some fog blanketed parts of the Midwest, while clear skies and dry weather prevailed in most of the West.
Republican Richard Nixon ended eight years of Democrats in the White House in 1968, a year when rainfall was slightly above median, but which followed dry years in 1966 and 1967.
The house was built in 1896 for Mrs Gerard Streatfield, in whose family it stayed for nearly 70 years. The 21-acre grounds include a fine terraced western hillside designed by Jekyll; the dry stone walls are planted with sedums and campanulas.
"There's the slow process, where they'll tear the cellophane and leave them out, and they'll dry out and shrivel up.
The three men, whose last names were withheld, had tried unsuccessfully for years to dry out in state-run facilities for alcoholics, he added.
Some farmers already are considering alternatives if 1989 is dry.
While the good ship will, at best, be in dry dock for some time, all hands were safe.
The U.S. Agriculture Department cited dry weather on the Plains in May when it reported that farmers were harvesting an estimated 1.57 billion bushels of winter wheat.
Southern Florida also was cited by Hudlow as a major dry area, and the threat of water supply shortages also covers Boston, New York and the Delaware River basin.
Mostly dry weather prevailed across the rest of the nation.
Prices soared Monday because of hot, dry weather throughout much of the Corn Belt, and thundershowers that occurred in parts of Iowa and Minnesota during yesterday's session made traders nervous, analysts said.
If not framed and displayed away from direct sunlight, they are ideally kept singly in acid-free envelopes in a dry, dark, relatively cool place.
"They're doing the same thing the beer people did with draft and dry beers," said Michael Bellas, president of Beverage Marketing, a New York research and consulting company.
They must never be allowed to dry out and should also get a yearly coat of oil or wood preservative. Butts can be placed some distance away from the downpipe by using special attachments that connect to it and a length of hose.
The 30 tons of aid carried by the group includes oats and dry milk and medical supplies such as crutches and wheelchairs.
They shut off the faulty dehumidifier, shifted to a backup, and then went to work on the water with towels and a hand-held vacuum, using a flashlight to dry cables and other surfaces.