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sun-dried, a.|ˈsʌndraɪd|
[f. sun n.1 + dried, pa. pple. of dry v.]
1. Dried by exposure to the sun, as clay, bricks, or articles of food, etc.
1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa vi. 268 Castles..enuironed with walles made of sunne-dried brickes. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 35 Houses of sun-dried mud. 1741Boyse Patience 184 Nor wanted he for fowl or sun-dried fish. 1858Birch Anc. Pottery I. 158 Sun-dried clay was used by the Greeks for modelling objects intended for internal decorations.
2. Dried up or parched by the sun, as vegetation, etc.
1638Sandys Paraphr. Div. Poems, Exod. xv, As Fire the Sun-dri'd Stubble burnes. 1842Dumfries Herald Oct., Where you hear the whins, with their opening capsules, crackling on the sun-dried braes. 1889Conan Doyle Micah Clarke 231 Their dark sun-dried faces..marked them as fishermen or seamen. 1901‘G. Paston’ Little Mem. 18th C. 238 A tuft of sun-dried heather. |