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arid, a.|ˈærɪd|
[ad. L. ārid-us, f. ārē-re to be dry, parched with heat. Perh. directly from F. aride, 15th c. refashioning of OF. are, arre.]
1. Dry, without moisture, parched, withered.
†a. of substances: Dry; anhydrous. Obs.
1652L. S. People's Lbty. ix. 17 Aride and liquide fruicts. 1742Shenstone Schoolmistr. 106 Lavender..in arid bundles bound. 1803Phil. Trans. XCIII. 14 Arid white salt..Arid, may be appropriated to express the state of being devoid of combined water.
†b. Med. of the skin. Obs.
1704Swift Batt. Bks. (1711) 248 Her Body grew white and arid. 1727Arbuthnot & Pope (J.) My complexion is become adust, and my body arid.
c. of the ground or climate. Hence, barren, bare.
1656Blount Glossogr., Arid, dry, barren, withered, unfruitful. 1730Thomson Autumn 147 Without him summer were an arid waste. 1849Dickens Barn. Rudge (1866) I. lviii. 265 The dry, arid look of the dusty square. 1872Baker Nile Tribut. Pref. 7 Arid sands and burning deserts.
2. fig. Dry, uninteresting, barren, jejune.
1827–39De Quincey Murder Wks. IV. 26 An old arid and adust metaphysician. 1846Lytton Lucretia (1853) 167 Ardworth grappled with his arid studies. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola lxxi, Arid of all good. |