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▪ I. drying, vbl. n.|ˈdraɪɪŋ|
[f. dry v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb dry; abstraction of moisture; desiccation. Also with adv., as drying-up.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. xxii. (1495) 560 The powdre of the whestone..hath vertue of dryenge. 1480Wardr. Acc. Edw. IV (1830) 124 For wasshing and drying of ix pair of shetes. 1548Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI, c. 10 §1 Except the same [Malt] have in the fatt flower stepinge and sufficient drienge. 1667H. Oldenburg in Phil. Trans. II. 417 The too hasty drying thereof spoils it. 1880C. R. Markham Peruv. Bark 349 The people complained bitterly of the drying up of the streams. 1889Pall Mall G. 7 Nov. 3/3 Fifty years is the period..[assigned] for the practical drying-up of the ivory supply.
2. attrib. and Comb. Used in or for drying something, as drying-basin, drying-box, drying-case, drying-chamber, drying-closet, drying-cylinder, drying-floor, drying-ground, drying-horse, drying-house, drying-machine, drying-paper, drying-pipe, drying-plate, drying-rack, drying-room, drying-stove, drying-tube, drying-yard; drying day, a sunny, windy day on which washing dries quickly.
1502Priv. Purse Exp. Eliz. of York (1830) 81 To..the Quenes fotemen for thaire dryeng money. 1558Bury Wills (Camden) 150 A dryeng bason. 1766C. Leadbetter Royal Gauge ii. xiv. (ed. 6) 371 Hung up, on Lines..in the Drying-House. 1799Mrs. Adams in Harper's Mag. (1885) Mar. 538/1, I made a drying-room..to hang up the clothes in. 1821in Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) I. 49 Close by the road-side is the drying-ground. 1854S. Thomson Wild Fl. iii. (ed. 4) 238 If you consign it [the plant] to your drying-paper. 1880C. R. Markham Peruv. Bark 149 The green leaves, called matu..are then spread out in the drying-yard..and carefully dried in the sun. 1884T. C. Hepworth Photogr. Amat. xiv. 124 The skeleton drying-rack which I recommend. 1906E. Nesbit Railway Children vii. 143 ‘I'll wash your Indian muslins at once.’.. ‘It's a nice drying day—that's one thing.’ 1934Archit. Rev. LXXV. 45/1 (caption) Kitchenette with gas-ring, sink, drying-rack. 1971R. Rendell One Across x. 79 Mrs. Blackmore's Monday wash was flapping on the line... ‘Lovely drying day!’
▪ II. ˈdrying, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. That dries or renders dry: having the quality of abstracting moisture; desiccative. In early use in Medicine.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. lxxix. (1495) 913 The harde yolke is dryenge and harde to passe out of the stomak. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 291 Make fumigaciouns of driynge þingis: as galles [etc.]. 1563W. Fulke Meteors (1640) 57 b, These waters being also drying by nature. 1709Prior Paulo Purganti, Drying Coffee was deny'd; But Chocolate that Loss supply'd. 1851Carpenter Man. Phys. (ed. 2) 93 A cold drying wind.
2. Becoming dry; having the quality of drying quickly; spec. of oils (see quot. 1865).
1758A. Reid tr. Macquer's Chym. I. 115 What is called a Spirit-Varnish, or a Drying Varnish, because it soon dries. c1865Letheby in Circ. Sc. I. 99/1 Subdivided into those which become thick or gelatinous on exposure to the air (drying oils), as linseed and poppy; and those which do not (fat oils), as olive and sperm. c1865J. Wylde ibid. 418/2 Some oils, by the absorption of oxygen, become what are termed ‘drying oils’. 1872Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 1087 A helm With but a drying evergreen for crest.
Hence ˈdryingness, drying quality.
1840æolus 60 The air..receives..an increase of dryness, or of dryingness, which latter designation is to be preferred as more truly expressive of the fact. |