dryadj.adv.

Brit.

/drʌɪ/, U.S.

/draɪ/

Forms: Old English drýge, Old English dríge, Middle English driȝe, Middle English drei(e, Middle English druie, Middle English driȝȝe ( Ormulum), Middle English druye, Middle English drue, Middle English–1600s drie, Middle English dryȝe, Middle English druiȝe, Middle English druyȝe, Middle English draye, Middle English dreȝe, Middle English drey(e, Middle English dri, Middle English–1600s 1800s drye, 1500s drygh, 1500s drigh, Middle English– dry.

Etymology: Old English drýge ( < *drûgi- ) in ablaut relation with Middle Dutch dröghe , drōghe , Dutch droog , Middle Low German, Low German drög(e , droge , dreuge ( < *draugi- ), < Germanic ablaut-series *dreug- , draug- , drug- to be dry, whence also Old English drúgian to dry, drúgað drought n., and (with formative suffix) Old High German trochan, German trocken dry.With sense A. 19 compare post-classical Latin denarius siccus (13th cent.) pecunia sicca (14th cent.) hard cash, multa sicca form of duty paid in hard cash (13th cent.), French argent sec, perte sèche.

A. adj.

I. As a physical quality.

a. Destitute of or free from moisture; not wet or moist; arid; of the eyes, free from tears.

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the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective]

dryc1000

unmoista1425

unwet1433

moistless1592

adry1599

c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xii. 43 He gæð geond drige stowa [Lindisf. G. dryia, Rushw. G. dryge, Hatton G. drege stowa].

a1175 Cott. Hom. 227 He hi ledde ofer sé mid dreie fote.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 87 God hom ledde ofer þa rede se, mid druȝe fotan.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 240 Ase þe desert is hard and draye.

c1374 G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite 336 Ne never mo myne eyen two bee drye.

c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 125 Þei leien a dreie clooþ vndir.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 132/1 Dry fro moysture, siccus.

?1530 J. Rastell Pastyme of People sig. *Aiv^v The ryuer of Trent drye in the somer, that men went ouer a fote drye.

?a1562 G. Cavendish Life Wolsey (1959) 161 Among whome was not oon drie eye.

1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Heautontimoroumenos iii. ii, in Terence in Eng. 226 As dry as a kixe [= kex].

1670 J. Narborough Jrnl. in Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) i. 52 The Air rather sharper and dryer.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 138 Rub his Temples, with fine Towels, dry .

1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 1 299 Atmospheric air in the driest possible state.

1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. ii. 32 Till every blade is as dry as a bone.

1834 Orange Song in Hansard Commons (1836) 28 Mar. 717 Then put your trust in God, my boys, And keep your powder dry!

†b. In medieval physiology: One of the fundamental qualities of elements, humours, planets, etc.; opposed to moist. (See cold adj. 6) Obsolete.

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the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical elements > [adjective] > qualities of

dryc888

earthya1398

c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxiii. §4 Sie eorþ is dryge and ceald.

c1050 Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia (1885) 8 299 Eorðe ys ceald and drigge.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3563 His blode þan wexus dri and cald.

c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 10 Þe qualitees..ben foure: hoot, coold, moist and drie.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. lxxviii. 426 Aconit is hoate and drie in the fourth degree.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iii. xv. 169 Saturne and Mercury the Patrons of Learning, are both dry Planets.

1819 J. Wilson Compl. Dict. Astrol. 3 Madness, melancholy..and all diseases proceeding from a dry habit.

c. Of a season or climate: Free from or deficient in rain; having scanty rainfall; not rainy.

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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > dry weather or climate > [adjective] > deficient in rainfall

dry1297

droughty1605

arid1730

Dryasdust1889

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 531 Thulke ȝer was that somer so druye & so hot.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 165 Dame Nature..bad eik Iuno..That scho the hevin suld keip amene and dry.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 560 Mise are multiplied in drie seasons.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §807 A Drie March, and a Drie May, portend a Wholesome Summer, if there be a Showring Aprill betweene.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 229 The summer had been the dryest that was known of some years.

a1897 Mod. Arable land that does fairly well in a dry year.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 375 In February comes the short dry, then the short wet till May.

1932 J. S. Huxley Probl. Relative Growth ii. 71 The wet-season and dry-season forms of certain tropical butterflies.

1964 C. Willock Enormous Zoo vii. 113 A Rhodesian dry season track which was rarely used by vehicles.

a. That has given up or lost its natural or ordinary moisture; dried, desiccated, parched, withered. Now archaic or sunk in sense A. 1.

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the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > dried (up)

dryc950

drieda1340

desiccatec1420

undriedc1440

exsiccate1540

mummianized1593

exsiccated1646

exust1657

desiccateda1676

dehydrated1884

dehumidified1940

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Luke xxiii. 31 Forðon gif in groene tree ðas doað, in drygi huæd worðes? [Rushw. on dryge, Ags. G. on þam drigean.]

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 202 Druȝe spritlen beoreð win berien.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. xxxvii. 932 Dias seiþ þat among fruyte is druye figges sweteste [emended in ed. to among fruytes druye figge is sweteste].

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 20747 His arms war al clungen dri [Gött. drei, Fairf. dry].

?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 3523 When my mouthe was dry for thrist.

1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias xxiv. 61 Greate store of drie Cinamon.

1677 London Gaz. No. 1232/1 3 French Prizes, laden with dry Fish from Newfoundland.

1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters i. 79 A dry tongue can no more taste, than a dry eye see..distinctly.

b. Said of a body of water, or of moisture on a surface, that has disappeared by evaporation, or by being wiped or drained away: Dried up.

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the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > dried (up) > of fluid > by evaporation

dryc1405

c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 2160 The brode Ryuer som tyme wexeth dreye.

1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors i. f. 2^v If there be a plash of water..standing in the heate of the sunne, it wyl soone be drye.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 279 We saw a quadrangled dry Pond.

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World v. 95 Some small Rivers..are dry at certain seasons of the year.

1707 I. Watts Hymns & Spiritual Songs ii. 106 Then let our Songs abound, And every Tear be dry.

?1799 in J. W. Cole Lives Generals Penin. War (1832) I. ii. 78 Before the sweat was dry on his brow.

a. Of persons: Wanting or desirous of drink; thirsty. Cf. adry adv. (Now only in informal use.)

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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > [adjective]

thirstyc950

ofthirstOE

athirstc1305

thirstinga1382

dry1406

thirstlewc1425

altered1596

adry1599

droughty1626

chapped1673

bone-dry1920

1406 T. Hoccleve La Male Regle 135 The thirsty hete of hertes drie.

c1525 J. Rastell New Commodye Propertes of Women sig. Biii To ete when I wyll & drynk when I am dry.

1657 A. Cokayne Obstinate Lady v. iii. 49 Boy. I am very drie with singing and dancing. Jaq. Follow me to the Wine-Sellar.

1712 A. W. Boehm tr. St. Bernard of Clairvaux in tr. J. Arnot True Christianity I. ii. 600 I ever drink, yet am I ever dry.

1807 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) II. 182 I returned hungry, weary and dry, and had only snow to supply the calls of nature.

1890 Beeton's Christm. Ann. 17 Come in, you look dry; let's have a wet.

figurative.a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 112 So drie he was for Sway.

b. transferred. Of things or conditions: Causing thirst.

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1897 N.E.D. at Dry Mod. Better have a pint; it's dry work.

a. Not yielding water (or other liquid); exhausted of its supply of liquid.

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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 310 (MED) He es welle þat neuer is drey.

1576 A. Fleming tr. G. Macropedius in Panoplie Epist. 378 It would..drawe the veyne of mine invention drie.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State iv. xiii. 304 It must be a dry flower..out of which this bee sucks no honey.

1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 160 A dry inkstand.

1883 Cent. Mag. July 323/1 Wasting large sums of money on ‘dry holes’ [unproductive oil-wells].

b. spec. Of cows, sheep, etc.: Not yielding milk.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [adjective] > yielding milk > not

dryc1450

yeld1670

sew1674

c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 37 Ȝif þou paye tythe for leyse to þi mylche-beestys, & noȝt of þi drye beestys.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xx^v The dammes wyll waxe dry and wayne their lambes themselfe.

a1657 W. Burton Comm. Antoninus his Itinerary (1658) 87 At home their allowance..was no more than three Milch Cowes, and in case any of them became dry, the Parishoners supplyed them again.

1789 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 2 100 What we term dry sheep (viz. wethers, barren ewes, &c.).

1890 Daily News 8 Dec. 26/5 Twenty thousand breeding ewes..the remainder being what are called ‘dry sheep’.

5. Not under, in, or on water; not submerged (see also dry land n.); †inland (quot. 1599 at sense A. 11a); drawn or cast up on shore, as a boat or a fish.

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the world > the earth > land > [adjective] > not submerged

dryc1175

unsunka1300

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 14862 Swa þatt teȝȝ o þe driȝȝe grund. Wel sæȝhenn openn weȝȝe.

1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 220 Came none of hem to londe drey.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 381 (MED) Drightin..bad a dri sted suld be.

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. i. 4 That at is dry the erth shall be, The waters also I call the see.

1589 J. Eldred in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 231 Alleppo..is the greatest place of traffike for a dry towne that is in all these parts.

1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. ii. iii. 93 The Head of his Ketch was dry, and at the Stern, there was above 4 Foot Water.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §195 (note) In dry work the difference of hardness..is less apparent.

1798 R. Dodd Lett. on Port of London 5 Further dry arches on each shore.

1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) II. 55 The tide leaves them dry.

6. Of bread (or toast): Without butter or the like.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > bread with spread or filling > [adjective] > without spread or filling

dry1579

butterless1820

unbuttered1869

1579 W. Fulke Refut. Rastels Confut. in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 762 The words..wold not agree to drie bread.

1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. lxiv. 160 Making some thin dry toast.

1884 G. Allen Philistia III. 157 The meal..of dry bread with plain tea.

7. Solid, not liquid.

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1722 C. Ogle in London Gaz. No. 6091/1 Neither the Wine nor dry Provisions were come.

1806 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 5) I. 27 By this are measured all dry wares, as, Corn, Seeds, Roots, Fruits, Salt, Coals, Sand, Oysters, &c.

8. Of wines, etc.: Free from sweetness and fruity flavour.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > qualities or characteristics of wine > [adjective] > not sweetened

uncuted1615

dry1699

sec1863

brut1891

bone-dry1935

off-dry1950

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Dry-wine, a little rough upon, but very grateful to the Palate.

1706 G. Farquhar Recruiting Officer iii. i. 31 Many a dry Bottle have we crack'd hand to fist.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xli. 160 Where's the old dry wine?

1887 J. Ashby-Sterry Bolney Ferry in Lazy Minstrel (1892) 187 In Mrs. Williams' driest sherry He toasts the Lass of Bolney Ferry!

9. Metallurgy. Said of copper, tin, or lead, in the brittle and coarse-grained condition which they exhibit before refining, or when insufficiently deoxidated in refining.

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1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 918 When the operation of refining begins, the copper is dry or brittle..Its grain is coarse, open, and somewhat crystalline.

1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 919 Copper, in the dry state, has a strong action upon iron.

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 129 Dry copper. See Under-poled copper.

10. transferred. Of or relating to dry substances or commodities; dry measure, measure of capacity for non-liquids.

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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > dry measure

dry measure1688

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 337/2 A Pint..is the least of dry measures.

1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 703 The loss in the dry weight connected with the exhalation of carbon dioxide.

1887 Whitaker's Almanack 363 In dry or corn measure, eight bushels..make a quarter.

1891 Daily News 9 Nov. 3/6 In both wet and dry departments separate rooms are set apart for all deadly drugs.

11. Not associated or connected with liquid.

a. Not accompanied or associated with drink; originally in U.S. Political slang, said of places which favour the prohibition of the liquor traffic. Also, of a person who favours prohibition; hence quasi-adv. in phrases to go or vote dry.

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the world > food and drink > food > meal > [adjective] > qualities of meals

substantial1340

simplea1387

dry1483

of substance?c1500

large1528

hearty?1550

abstemious1604

scrambling1607

running1618

lusty1672

sit-down1789

well-served1796

à la carte1816

slap-up1823

quaresimal1828

scratch1851

square1868

scrambly1900

set1914

handout1915

all-you-can-eat1940

spready1960

carbo-load1986

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [adjective] > total abstinence > prohibition

dry1887

bone-dry1905

alcohol-free1913

Volstead1920

1483 Cath. Angl. 108/2 A Dry feste, xerofagia.

1579 W. Fulke Refut. Rastels Confut. in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 778 The Papistes make a drie communion, when they robbe the people of the cuppe.

1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth iv. f. 13 Priuiledge to drinke..at the drye or prohibited times.

1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. A5 A Dry Dinner..without all drinke, except Tobacco (which also is but Dry Drinke).

1667 M. Poole Dialogue between Popish Priest & Protestant (1735) 198 It was not a dry Feast..they had drink with it.

1871 Scribner's Monthly 1 63 Dry or wet, Mr. Dort? Indifferent, eh? Adolph, a hock-glass.

1887 Courier-Jrnl. 7 Feb. 1/7 Athens, in which the State university is located,..is a dry town.

1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. liv. 350 A local option system, under which each county decides whether it will be ‘wet’ or ‘dry’ (e.g. permit or forbid the sale of intoxicants).

1888 Detroit Evening Jrnl. 20 Feb. (Farmer) If a county has voted on local option, and has gone dry.

1892 Daily News 7 Apr. 3/6 Dividing the receipts at the music-halls..as they are named in the trade ‘Wet Money’ and ‘Dry Money’ [i.e. money paid for refreshments, and for admission].

1904 N.Y. Evening Post 3 Oct. 6 If every town and city in Vermont should vote ‘dry’ at the next election.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 20 May 12/1 A map of the United States, with prohibition States white, licence States black, and States partly ‘dry’ and partly ‘wet’ under local option indicated by shading.

1916 Literary Digest 1 Jan. 4/2 About as much ‘dry’ territory ‘going wet’ as there was of ‘wet’ territory ‘going dry’.

1944 W. R. Scott Revolt on Mount Sinai xxii. 179 Many members who long had voted dry accepted the election result as a mandate from the people.

1971 Scotsman 20 May 20/8 If the people of Kirkintilloch could be consulted on the issue of whether they should remain ‘dry’ or ‘wet’ it was difficult to see whether they should not also be consulted on the question of whether they should enter the Common Market.

b. Of diseases, etc.: Not marked by a discharge of matter, phlegm, etc.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > other characteristics

hoteOE

redeOE

foulOE

elvishc1386

dryc1400

whitec1450

Naples1507

shaking1528

cold1569

exquisite1583

unpure1583

waterish1583

wandering1585

legitimate1615

sulphureous1625

tetrous1637

cagastrical1662

medical1676

ambulatory1684

ebullient1684

frantic1709

animated1721

progressive1736

cagastric1753

vegetative1803

left-handed1804

specific1804

subacute1811

animate1816

gregarious1822

vernal1822

ambilateral1824

subchronic1831

regressive1845

nummular1866

postoperative1872

ambulant1873

non-surgical1888

progredient1891

spodogenous1897

spodogenic19..

non-invasive1932

early-onset1951

adult-onset1957

non-specific1964

c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 57 Þe drie discrasie þou schalt knowe bi þe..litil quytture.

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xii. 61 Good for the drie cowghe.

1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica (ed. 2) 195 Occasion'd by the Dry-Gripes of that Countrey.

1811 R. Hooper Quincy's Lexicon-medicum (new ed.) This is called..from its victims, the plumbers' and the painters' colic; from its symptoms, the dry belly-ache, the nervous and spasmodic colic.

1834 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 83 The expression dry catarrh involves a contradiction if we look to etymology..I shall employ it..to designate those inflammations of the bronchi which are attended with little or no expectoration.

c. Not accompanied with tears.

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1619 W. Whately Gods Husb. (1622) ii. 49 The Lord will not reiect dry sorrow, if he see it hearty and true.

1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe v. 71 Dry mourning will decays more deadly bring..Give sorrow vent, and let the sluces go.

1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance xxv. 257 Dry sobs they seemed to be.

†d. Not accompanied with bloodshed: see also A. 11f. Obsolete.

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1618 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. 75 Thus are both sides busied in this drie warre.

1660 T. Fuller Mixt Contempl. i. xxxix. 63 If we should be blessed with a dry Peace, without one drop of Blood therein.

e. Said of processes or apparatus in which no liquid is used.

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1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 395 In the Dry way, it may be essayed when pulverized.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 386 Iron..precipitates nickel from its acid solutions, and in the dry way takes from it the sulphur which it contains.

c1865 H. Letheby in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 127/2 The first dry-meter was patented by Mr. Malam in 1820.

1883 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women (ed. 2) xxii. 233 I have often seen the knife used in the manner which..is called dry tapping.

f. to die a dry death: i.e. without bloodshed, or (in Shakespeare) without drowning.

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the world > life > death > manner of death > die in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > die naturally

to die naturally1554

to die a dry death1594

to die in one's beda1739

1594 Mirrour Policie (1599) E iij Tyrants..goe neuer to Pluto with a drie death..without bloud and murder.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) i. i. 143 Destin'd to a drier death on shore.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. i. 64 I would faine dye a dry death.

1688 R. L'Estrange Brief Hist. Times III. 275 He dy'd rather a Dry Death, then a Bloudy.

†12. Of a blow, or a beating: that does not draw blood (as a blow given with a stick or the fist, which merely causes a bruise); by some apparently used more vaguely, = Hard, stiff, severe. Obsolete.

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the world > movement > impact > striking > [adjective] > that does not draw blood

dry1530

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 306/2 Blo, blewe and grene coloured, as ones body is after a drie stroke.

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. i. x. sig. F.vij^v/2 A Iewe..couered with woundes and swelling drye blowes.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vii. xliv. 877 Giue him many a drie bob.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) ii. ii. 63.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 38. ⁋3 Many a dry Blow was strenuously laid on by each Side.

1711 W. King et al. Vindic. Sacheverell 44 The Fellow..had an honest dry drubbing.

a1774 O. Goldsmith tr. P. Scarron Comic Romance (1775) I. xiii. 104 Having got nothing but dry blows and empty pockets.

II. Figurative senses.

13. Feeling or showing no emotion, impassive; destitute of tender feeling; wanting in sympathy or cordiality; stiff, hard, cold. In early use, chiefly: Wanting spiritual emotion or unction.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > [adjective]

worldlyOE

dryc1175

fleshlyc1175

of the world?c1225

secularc1290

timely1340

of hencec1384

uttermore1395

worldisha1400

profane1474

humanc1475

mundanec1475

mundial1499

carnal?1510

seculary1520

unghostly1526

worldly-minded1528

sensual1529

earthly-minded1535

civil1536

subcelestial1561

worldly-witted1563

secular-minded1597

ghostlessa1603

lay1609

mundal1614

non-ecclesiastical1630

unspiritual1643

wilderness1651

worldly-handed1657

outward1674

timesome1674

apsychical1678

secularized1683

hylastic1684

choical1708

Sadducee1746

gay1798

unspiritualized1816

secularizing1825

unreligious1832

secularistic1862

apneumatic1864

Sadduceeic1875

this-worldly1883

this world1889

the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > emotionally detached

queamishc1430

squeamish1561

dry1637

unconcerned1660

inconcerned1688

aloof1872

stocky1876

detached1913

clinical1928

the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > cold or lacking warm feeling

winter-coldOE

coldc1175

cheald1340

umbrous1483

key-colda1535

frosty1548

frostbitten1564

icy1567

wintry1579

cold-hearteda1616

unwarmeda1625

dry1637

cool1641

frigidal1651

frigid1658

thieveless1725

cool-hearted1748

wintry1748

chill1751

cold as charity1795

freezing1813

ice-cold1815

chilly1841

impersonal1846

pincé1858

ice-cool1891

touch-me-not-ish1895

marmorean1902

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 9883 Hæþenn follkess herrte. Iss..driȝȝe. & all wiþþutenn dæw.

c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 27 Weetynge of hevenly deew to her drie hertis.

c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi ii. viii. 48 Hov dry & hov harde þou art wiþoute ihesu!

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. EEii Drie, dull, or vndeuout in spirituall thynges.

1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 440 He..is grown miskenning and dry to His poor friends.

1761–2 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) V. lxxi. 321 Noted for an address so cold, dry, and distant, that it was very difficult..to soften or familiarize it.

1825 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Wks. (1859) I. 110 Lord North's answers were dry, unyielding..and betrayed an absolute indifference to the occurrence of a rupture.

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxvi. 102 ‘Well,’ said St. Clare, in a tone of dry endurance.

14. Said of a jest or sarcasm uttered in a matter-of-fact tone and without show of pleasantry, or of humour that has the air of being unconscious or unintentional; also of a person given to such humour; caustically witty; in early use, ironical.

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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > caustic or ironic ridicule > [adjective]

satiric1509

satirien1509

satiricala1529

ironical1536

dry1542

Lucianical1561

satirial1579

sardonian1586

ironized1596

sarcasmical1602

ironic1614

Sardinian?1615

sardoin1633

sardonic1638

sarcastical1641

sardan1649

sarcasmous1663

sarcastic1695

witty1700

sarcasmatical1716

caustic1771

nippit1808

Lucianic1820

sardonican1837

quippy1859

sardonical1859

quipsome1881

sarky1912

Lucianesque1969

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > sarcasm > [adjective]

dry1542

sarcasmical1602

sarcastical1641

sarcasmous1663

sarcastic1695

sarcasmatical1716

nippy1859

sarky1912

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes Pref. *v Of the subtile knackes, of the drye mockes..whiche Socrates dooeth there vse.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xviii. 157 The figure Ironia, which we call the drye mock.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. iii. 74, i. v. 40.

1709 E. Ward Rambling Fuddle-caps 7 Keep your Flirts to your self, and your merry dry Bobs.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 114 [He] was..something of an humorist and dry joker.

1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. iii. 129 Froissart, with a touch of dry humour, explains that their allies had no objection to speed the exit of the poorer knights.

†15.

a. Yielding no fruit, result, or satisfaction; barren, sterile, unfruitful, jejune. (Cf. A. 4) Obsolete (or merged in sense A. 17).

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > unproductiveness > [adjective]

unbearingc825

deafc897

westyOE

wastumlessc975

wilderna1050

drya1340

gelda1350

barren1377

unfructuousa1382

poora1387

ungreenc1400

infecundc1420

farrow1494

fruitlessa1513

unfruitful1531

sterile1552

hungry1577

penurious1594

unfertile1596

infertile1598

howling1611

ungenitureda1616

arid1656

infecundous1661

ungendering1706

yeld1721

unproductive1725

infructuose1727

ungenerative1733

fallow1791

nihili-parturient1812

dowf1824

wastec1825

non-productive1830

unreproductive1836

infructuous1860

unvintaged1869

increative1877

ablastemic1881

submarginal1895

a1340 R. Rolle Psalter vi. 6 I sall make it to bere froit, þat bifore was drye fra goed werkes.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Siiii^v He shall go drye, and for a surety haue no perfection.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. B One..whose dryer braine Is tost with troubled sighes and fancies weake.

1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xviii. 171 That the fire burns by heat, is an empty dry return to the question, and leaves us still ignorant.

†b. Of persons: Miserly, stingy; reserved, uncommunicative. (Cf. A. 4) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [adjective]

gnedec900

gripplea1000

fastOE

narrow-hearteda1200

narrow?c1225

straitc1290

chinchc1300

nithinga1325

scarcec1330

clama1340

hard1340

scantc1366

sparingc1386

niggardc1400

chinchy?1406

retentivea1450

niggardousa1492

niggish1519

unliberal1533

pinching1548

dry1552

nigh1555

niggardly1560

churlish1566

squeamish1566

niggardish1567

niggard-like1567

holding1569

spare1577

handfast1578

envious1580

close-handed1585

hard-handed1587

curmudgeonly1590

parsimonious?1591

costive1594

hidebound1598

penny-pinching1600

penurious1600

strait-handed1600

club-fisted1601

dry-fisted1604

fast-handed1605

fast-fingered1607

close-fisted1608

near1611

scanting1613

carkingc1620

illiberal1623

clutch-fisteda1634

hideboundeda1640

clutch-fista1643

clunch-fisted1644

unbounteous1645

hard-fisted1646

purse-bound1652

close1654

stingy1659

tenacious1676

scanty1692

sneaking1696

gripe-handed1698

narrow-souled1699

niggardling1704

snippy1727

unindulgent1742

shabby1766

neargoinga1774

cheesemongering1781

split-farthing1787

save-all1788

picked1790

iron-fisted1794

unhandsome1800

scaly1803

nearbegoing1805

tight1805

nippit1808

nipcheese1819

cumin-splitting1822

partan-handed1823

scrimping1823

scrumptious1823

scrimpy1825

meanly1827

skinny1833

pinchfisted1837

mean1840

tight-fisted1843

screwy1844

stinty1849

cheeseparing1857

skinflinty1886

mouly1904

mingy1911

cheapskate1912

picey1937

tight-assed1961

chintzy1964

tightwad1976

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [adjective] > disposed to secrecy, secretive

dernOE

covert1340

secrec1385

secretc1440

mum1532

closec1540

whist1577

as silent as the grave1613

privatea1625

dark1650

uncommunicating1650

dry1681

uncommunicative1691

unexpansive1847

secretive1853

tight-lipped1876

cagey1909

zip-lipped1943

closet1948

coy1961

tight1977

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Drye fellow whom some call a pelt or pinchbecke.

1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore ii. i. 100 Of all filthy dry-fisted knights.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Acquests He is but a drie fellow, there is nought to be got by dealing with him.

1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 509 Dry or reserved.

1689 Earl of Clarendon Diary 10 Jan. in State Lett. (1763) II. 140 He thanked me..and said, he had not seen so particular an account of those affairs before: but he was very dry as to all things else.

16. Lacking adornment or embellishment, or some addition; meagre, plain, bare; matter-of-fact.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > [adjective] > matter-of-fact

dry1626

matter of fact1787

unfabled1809

fanciless1868

1626 W. Laud Wks. (1849) II. 370 And if they say..they believe them in the Church's sense; yet that dry shift will not serve.

a1637 B. Jonson Timber 1773 in Wks. (1640) III As wee should take care, that our style in writing, be neither dry, nor empty.

1647 H. More Philos. Poems To Rdr. 7/1 Contemplations concerning the dry essence of the Deity are very consuming and unsatisfactory.

1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. ii. 6 With a pension and dry title only.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe Pref. sig. ***2 Enforced thereunto, by Dry Mathematicall Reason.

1713 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. July (1965) I. 189 I would willingly return..something more..than dry thanks impertinently express'd.

1803 Ld. Eldon in Vesey's Rep. Cases High Court Chancery (1844) VIII. 435 It is the case of a dry trust, all the debts and legacies being long paid.

1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species ii. 44 A long catalogue of dry facts.

17. Deficient in interest; unattractive, distasteful, insipid. (figurative from food that wants succulency.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > bland or insipid

colourlessc1425

unsavouryc1449

wearish?1533

wersha1599

tasteless1603

tame1604

juiceless1620

water gruela1627

dry1632

soulless1632

frigid1643

vapid1656

insipida1684

fade1715

heartless1780

vapid1785

achromatic1799

sauceless1817

albuminous1858

antiseptic1891

flat-footed1899

unatmospheric1913

defanged1920

anodyne1933

spiceless1942

tea-party1961

nothingburger1965

1632 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 4) i. ii. i. ii. 39 Our subtile Schoolemen..are weake, drye, obscure.

1661 S. Pepys Diary 12 May (1970) II. 98 Methought it was a poor dry sermon.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 315. ¶3 These Points are dry in themselves to the generality of Readers.

a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) ii. v. 131 If these speculations appear too dry, they may be rendered more pleasing, if the reader would peruse the two pieces criticised.

1790 J. Q. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 567 Mankind have an aversion to the study of the science of government. Is it because the subject is dry?

1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 75 Annals..valuable to the antiquarian, but dry and profitless to others.

18.

a. Art. Characterized by stiff and formal outlines; lacking in softness or mellowness; frigidly precise.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [adjective] > other qualities or styles

plangent1666

dry1695

sticky1753

flat1755

spotty1798

touchy1809

definitive1815

edgy1825

painty1827

scratchy1827

unideal1838

tinglish1855

generalist1858

tinny1877

Christmas-cardy1883

tinty1883

surfacy1887

chocolate box1892

chocolate-boxy1894

Christmas card1895

juicy1897

candy box1898

pastose1901

busy1909

pompier1914

posterish1914

painterly1932

X-ray1940

illusional1942

all-over1948

figurative1960

hard-edge1961

1695 J. Dryden tr. R. de Piles in tr. C. A. Du Fresnoy De Arte Graphica 213 His manner was Gothique and very dry.

1695 J. Dryden tr. R. de Piles in tr. C. A. Du Fresnoy De Arte Graphica 216 [His] manner was drier and harder than any of Raphael's School.

a1792 J. Reynolds Journey Flanders & Holland in Wks. (1797) II. 22 The fall of the Angels, by F. Floris, 1554; which has some good parts, but without masses, and dry.

1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art (new ed.) §205. 195 The workmanship, however, is still drier than in the Antonines.

1876 H. N. Humphreys Coin Coll. Man. xxiv. 353 A dry and hard manner of execution.

b. Of acoustics: lacking in warmth or resonance.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [adjective] > of acoustics

dead1907

dry1961

1961 Listener 2 Nov. 715/2 When an orchestra broadcasts in a television studio, where the acoustic is likelier to be drier.

1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio ii. 53 Some modern music is now written for drier acoustics than those which sound best for Beethoven.

19. Of money, rent, or fees: Paid in hard cash, in actual coin.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > [adjective] > ready money or cash

readya1400

dry1574

running1662

ready money1671

ready-moneyed1757

tractile1892

1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 253 Such as shall play at cardes, or dice (for drie money).

1664 S. Pepys Diary 30 Sept. (1971) V. 284 I am fain to preserve my vowe by paying 20s. dry money into the poor's box.

1694 Provid. God 64 That what could not be done by dry Money, might be by Debauchery.

1713 J. Addison in Guardian 2 July 2/2 To Zelinda's Woman..fifteen Guineas in dry Mony.

1725 G. Berkeley Let. 12 June in Wks. (1871) IV. 112 It hath cost me 130 pounds dry fees, besides expedition-money to men in office.

1885 Standard 3 Apr. 2/6 He had played in Defendant's house..but not for ‘dry money’.

20. dry light n. (an expression derived from a doubtful or corrupt passage in Heraclitus; ed. Bywater 30): ‘Light’ untinged by any infusion of personal predilection, prejudice, or fancy.

ΚΠ

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 158 Heraclitus saith well, in one of his Ænigmaes; Dry Light is euer the best.

1625 F. Bacon Apophth. 268 Heraclitus the Obscure sayd: The drie Light was the best Soule. Meaning, when the Faculties Intellectual are in vigour, not wet, nor, as it were, blouded by the Affections.

1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 149 The web that looks so familiar and ordinary in the dry light of every day.

B. adv.

In a dry manner, dryly. (See Compounds 2.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adverb] > with emotional detachment

dry1513

squeamishly1571

queamishly1594

dryly1622

unconcernedly1636

aloofly1891

1513 Act 5 Hen. VIII c. 4. §1 If the same Worsted, so dry calandred, taketh any Wet.

1710–11 J. Swift Lett. (1767) III. 97 I talk dry and cross to him.

1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. ii. xviii. 299 Where the land is very dry situated.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. ix. 143 He's rowing dry, your honour—only making bilave.

Phrases

to run dry.

a. To cease to flow with liquid. Also: to cause or allow all liquid to flow or be driven out of (something).

ΚΠ

1586 G. Whetstone Enemie to Vnthryftinesse f. 7 Mightie Ryuers wyll soone run drie, when their noorishyng Spryngs are turned another way.

1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. i. 12 Hee..would..with the Well drop vie, That he before his eyes would first runne drie.

1682 J. Banks Unhappy Favourite v. 59 Like Fishes on the Ouse When streams run dry, and their own Element Forsakes 'em.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 218 The stream of living waters..will never run dry.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XV. 161/2 It will discharge the water faster than TO supplies it; it will therefore run it dry.

1863 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 24 ii. 301 Most cows run dry in about ten months.

1891 Blackwood's Mag. 149 782/1 The only thing to be done is to..run the pool dry and clean it.

1969 M. H. Wolf Vermont is always with You 10 Re-seating the rubber thing in the back of the toilet to keep it from running the well dry.

2006 Daily Tel. 16 May 2/5 With the reservoirs running dry, the water authorities were struggling for ideas.

b. figurative. With reference to the exhaustion or coming to an end of a supply of something.

ΚΠ

1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1664) i. clxxiii. 337 I am run dry of loving..that greatest and most admirable one!

1662 R. Baxter Saint or Brute 69 Whiles he feeds our Love, our Joyful praises will never be run dry.

1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. cxviii. 230 I intend, when run dry on other topics, to take a serious survey of the City-wall.

1827 Examiner 152/2 The Waverley novels ran dry at last.

1879 J. Lubbock Addresses, Polit. & Educ. ii. 28 In 1797 the bullion in the Bank of England had almost run dry.

1892 Argosy Apr. 287 The old gentleman had run his subject dry.

1939 Fortune Oct. 62/1 The Unemployment Insurance Institute was still heavily in debt and municipal relief funds had long since run dry.

1987 World Mag. Oct. 53/1 Either she [sc. the Golden Hind] disintegrated or was broken up when public curiosity ran dry.

2002 Time Out N.Y. 5 Sept. 103/2 Penning their own [songs] when the supply of Western tunes ran dry during the Communist regime.

Compounds

C1. Parasynthetic. See also dry-fisted adj. at dry-fist n. Derivatives, dry-footed adj.

dry-boned adj.

ΚΠ

1618 R. Brathwait Descr. Death in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign James I (1848) 271 Chop-falne, crest-sunke, drie-bon'd anatomie.

dry-fancied adj.

ΚΠ

1682 H. More Annot. Lux Orientalis 50 in Two Choice & Useful Treat. Any dry-fancied Metaphysicians.

dry-handed adj.

dry-leaved adj.

dry-lipped adj.

dry-mouthed adj.

ΚΠ

a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 241 As in a drie-mouth'd feaver.

dry-skinned adj.

dry-tongued adj.

ΚΠ

1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud xviii. ii, in Maud & Other Poems 56 The dry-tongued laurels' pattering talk.

dry-eyed adj. having dry eyes, tearless, not weeping.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > not manifesting emotion > without tears

tearless1603

dry-eyed1667

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 495 Sight so deform what heart of Rock could long Drie-ey'd behold?

1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 Sept. 6/2 The face..has the drawn expression of dry-eyed grief.

dry-looking adj.

C2. Adverbial, in combination with verbs and their derivatives.

a. In a dry way; without the use of liquid; without drawing blood:

(a)

dry-washing n.

ΚΠ

1901 R. Kipling Kim viii, in McClure's Mag. May 62/7 The halts for prayers (Mahbub was very religious in dry-washings and bellowings when time did not press).

(b)

† dry-pulled adj. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1495 Act 11 Henry VII c. 19 Preamble in Statutes of Realm (1816) II. 582 Pillows made of..scalded feders and drie pulled feders to gedre.

(c)

dry-feed v.

ΚΠ

1907 Daily Chron. 8 July 4/4 New systems of dry-feeding young and adult stock.

dry-rub v.

dry-scratch v.

dry-scrub v.

ΚΠ

1864 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene 267 On intermediate days the rooms are dry-scrubbed.

dry-wash v.

ΚΠ

1962 ‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed xiv. 93 He began worriedly dry-washing his hands.

(d)

dry-blowing adv. present participle.

ΚΠ

1728 J. Thomson Spring 7 If..a cutting Gale..dry-blowing breathe Untimely Frost.

† dry-bang v. Obsolete = dry-beat v.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person

to-beatc893

threshOE

bustc1225

to lay on or upon?c1225

berrya1250

to-bunea1250

touchc1330

arrayc1380

byfrapc1380

boxc1390

swinga1400

forbeatc1420

peal?a1425

routa1425

noddlea1450

forslinger1481

wipe1523

trima1529

baste1533

waulk1533

slip1535

peppera1550

bethwack1555

kembc1566

to beat (a person) black and blue1568

beswinge1568

paik1568

trounce1568

canvass1573

swaddle?1577

bebaste1582

besoop1589

bumfeage1589

dry-beat1589

feague1589

lamback1589

clapperclaw1590

thrash1593

belam1595

lam1595

beswaddle1598

bumfeagle1598

belabour1600

tew1600

flesh-baste1611

dust1612

feeze1612

mill1612

verberate1614

bethumpa1616

rebuke1619

bemaul1620

tabor1624

maula1627

batterfang1630

dry-baste1630

lambaste1637

thunder-thump1637

cullis1639

dry-banga1640

nuddle1640

sauce1651

feak1652

cotton1654

fustigate1656

brush1665

squab1668

raddle1677

to tan (a person's) hide1679

slam1691

bebump1694

to give (a person) his load1694

fag1699

towel1705

to kick a person's butt1741

fum1790

devel1807

bray1808

to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813

mug1818

to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821

welt1823

hidea1825

slate1825

targe1825

wallop1825

pounce1827

to lay into1838

flake1841

muzzle1843

paste1846

looder1850

frail1851

snake1859

fettle1863

to do over1866

jacket1875

to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877

to take apart1880

splatter1881

to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884

to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886

to do up1887

to —— (the) hell out of1887

to beat — bells out of a person1890

soak1892

to punch out1893

stoush1893

to work over1903

to beat up1907

to punch up1907

cream1929

shellac1930

to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931

duff1943

clobber1944

to fill in1948

to bash up1954

to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976

to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983

beast1990

becurry-

fan-

a1640 J. Day & H. Chettle Blind-beggar (1659) sig. I1^v And I did not dry bang ye all one after another, I'de eat no meat but Mustard.

†dry-baste v. Obsolete = dry-beat v.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person

to-beatc893

threshOE

bustc1225

to lay on or upon?c1225

berrya1250

to-bunea1250

touchc1330

arrayc1380

byfrapc1380

boxc1390

swinga1400

forbeatc1420

peal?a1425

routa1425

noddlea1450

forslinger1481

wipe1523

trima1529

baste1533

waulk1533

slip1535

peppera1550

bethwack1555

kembc1566

to beat (a person) black and blue1568

beswinge1568

paik1568

trounce1568

canvass1573

swaddle?1577

bebaste1582

besoop1589

bumfeage1589

dry-beat1589

feague1589

lamback1589

clapperclaw1590

thrash1593

belam1595

lam1595

beswaddle1598

bumfeagle1598

belabour1600

tew1600

flesh-baste1611

dust1612

feeze1612

mill1612

verberate1614

bethumpa1616

rebuke1619

bemaul1620

tabor1624

maula1627

batterfang1630

dry-baste1630

lambaste1637

thunder-thump1637

cullis1639

dry-banga1640

nuddle1640

sauce1651

feak1652

cotton1654

fustigate1656

brush1665

squab1668

raddle1677

to tan (a person's) hide1679

slam1691

bebump1694

to give (a person) his load1694

fag1699

towel1705

to kick a person's butt1741

fum1790

devel1807

bray1808

to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813

mug1818

to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821

welt1823

hidea1825

slate1825

targe1825

wallop1825

pounce1827

to lay into1838

flake1841

muzzle1843

paste1846

looder1850

frail1851

snake1859

fettle1863

to do over1866

jacket1875

to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877

to take apart1880

splatter1881

to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884

to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886

to do up1887

to —— (the) hell out of1887

to beat — bells out of a person1890

soak1892

to punch out1893

stoush1893

to work over1903

to beat up1907

to punch up1907

cream1929

shellac1930

to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931

duff1943

clobber1944

to fill in1948

to bash up1954

to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976

to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983

beast1990

becurry-

fan-

1630 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime (new ed.) vi. 58 They..dry-basted brother Hill and left vs.

dry-cupping n. see cupping n. 1.

ΚΠ

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 618 The use of dry-cupping between the shoulders.

dry-cure v. to cure meat, etc. by salting and drying, as distinguished from pickling.

dry-dyeing n. (see quot. ).

ΚΠ

1904 Westm. Gaz. 8 Sept. 4/2 Dry-dyeing is simply dyeing with aniline dyes soluble in spirit.

dry-grind v. to grind articles of cutlery without the use of water.

dry-grinder n. a workman employed in dry-grinding.

ΚΠ

1824 Ann. Reg. 259 His apparatus for the relief of dry-grinders.

dry-pointing n. e.g. of needles and table-forks.

ΚΠ

1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. xviii. 149 Dry-pointing, which is also executed with great rapidity.

dry-salt v. = dry-cure vb.

ΚΠ

1885 Harper's Mag. Jan. 278/1 Goat-skins in their raw state come to the market ‘dry salted’.

dry-shave v. (see quots.).

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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle

defraud1362

deceivec1380

plucka1500

lurch1530

defeata1538

souse1545

lick1548

wipe1549

fraud1563

use1564

cozen1573

nick1576

verse1591

rooka1595

trim1600

skelder1602

firk1604

dry-shave1620

fiddle1630

nose1637

foista1640

doa1642

sharka1650

chouse1654

burn1655

bilk1672

under-enter1692

sharp1699

stick1699

finger1709

roguea1714

fling1749

swindle1773

jink1777

queer1778

to do over1781

jump1789

mace1790

chisel1808

slang1812

bucket1819

to clean out1819

give it1819

to put in the hole1819

ramp1819

sting1819

victimize1839

financier1840

gum1840

snakea1861

to take down1865

verneuk1871

bunco1875

rush1875

gyp1879

salt1882

daddle1883

work1884

to have (one) on toast1886

slip1890

to do (a person) in the eye1891

sugar1892

flay1893

to give (someone) the rinky-dink1895

con1896

pad1897

screw1900

short-change1903

to do in1906

window dress1913

ream1914

twist1914

clean1915

rim1918

tweedle1925

hype1926

clip1927

take1927

gazump1928

yentz1930

promote1931

to take (someone) to the cleaners1932

to carve up1933

chizz1948

stiff1950

scam1963

to rip off1969

to stitch up1970

skunk1971

to steal (someone) blind1974

diddle-

1620 Thomas's Dict. (ed. 12) Attondere aliquem auro, to ridde him of his gold, to drie shaue him.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Dry-shave, to chowse, gull or cheat notoriously.

1778 in Harper's Mag. (1883) 546/2 [He] shall be dry shaved..and have his head dressed on the parade.

c. So as to be or become dry, to dryness:

(a)

dry-suck v.

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1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore iii. ii. 41 Thou dry-suckst him.

dry-weep v.

(b)

dry-burnt adj.

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1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed xiii. 240 The grass was dry-burnt in the meadows.

dry-drunken adj.

dry-roasted adj.

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1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cxxxi. 116 Except it be verie drie rosted.

1671 T. Shadwell Humorists 111 Loins of Mutton dry-roasted.

dry-withering adj.

C3. Special attributive combinations: See also dry dock n., etc.

dry area n. a covered channel round the external walls of a building to prevent damp.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > wall of building > [noun] > other parts of wall

quoin1532

ground-table1640

breast1655

patand1656

raddling1673

breast1674

offset1721

breastwork1779

base1790

breast beam1828

dry area1833

chimney-breast1842

wall-head1898

1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. v. 1255 Around all the walls of the foundation against which ground will lie a dry area should be formed, in order to prevent dampness within the building.

1882 Cent. Mag. Mar. 791/1 These methods of keeping walls dry are excellent when dry areas or air-drains cannot be conveniently constructed.

1906 P. N. Hasluck Sanitary Constr. in Building iii. 56 If the damp springs from the surrounding earth, a dry area..or external cavity should be constructed, or the wall should be asphalted, and an open-joint drain laid.

2008 N. Davies & E. Jokiniemi Dict. Archit. & Building Constr. 32/2 Basement area, dry area, area; in town houses, an unroofed narrow external space below street level to provide light, air, and often access to rooms in a basement, and to separate external basement walls from the surrounding ground to prevent entry of water.

dry bath n. slang a search of a prisoner when he has been stripped naked.

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1933 ‘G. Ingram’ ‘Stir’ v. 93 The warder..said he'd give him a dry bath just to see.

1965 New Statesman 30 July 452/3 Two or three times a week the Heavy Mob rushed into our cells and gave us a ‘dry bath’, which adequately describes the search of a man who is standing ‘starkers’ in the middle of his cell.

dry battery n. a battery of dry cells.

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1885 Electrician 10 Jan. 174/1 (heading) Conversion of liquid into dry batteries.

dry-beard n. an old man with a dry or withered beard.

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the world > people > person > old person > old man > [noun]

old maneOE

bevara1275

beauperec1300

vieillard1475

Nestor?c1510

old gentleman1526

haga1529

velyarda1529

old fellow?1555

old sire1557

granfer1564

vecchioc1570

ageman1571

grave-porer1582

grandsire1595

huddle-duddle1599

elder1600

pantaloon1602

cuffc1616

crone1630

old boya1637

codger?1738

dry-beard1749

eld1796

patriarch1819

oubaas1824

old chap1840

pap1844

pop1844

tad1877

old baas1882

senex1898

finger1904

AK1911

alte kacker1911

poppa stoppa1944

madala1960

Ntate1975

1749 D. Garrick Lethe i. (1798) I. 11 Well said, old dry~beard.

1797 T. Park Sonnets 66 By Pythagrean dry~beards sentenc'd.

dry biscuit n. Obsolete (as a modifier) denoting something that is displeasing or of poor quality, as in dry biscuit jest, dry biscuit rogue.

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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > a jest or joke > other types of jest or joke

dry biscuit jest1600

kniff-knaff1683

private joke1789

jokelet1847

inside joke1849

wheeze1864

one-liner1904

lavatory joke1931

lavatory humour1935

sight gag1957

cruellie1959

in-joke1964

elephant joke1966

1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor Induct. sig. Biii^v [He] breakes a drie bisket jest, Which..He steeps in his owne laughter.

a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Little French Lawyer ii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Iv/2 Ye dry bisket rogue.

dry-blower n. Australian (a) a gold-miner; (b) used as a term of opprobrium; (c) (see quot. 1964).

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1895 Queenslander 7 Dec. 1069 Every other man you meet in Coolgardie..is either a lord, a colonel, a captain, a doctor, an expert, an agent, a sharebroker, or a sharper; all the rest are dudes, drunkards, and dryblowers, professional liars, and loafers.

1935 Bulletin (Sydney) 20 Mar. 10/4 In the early days of the Westralian goldfields it gained me many friends amongst the isolated dryblowers to whom I passed on my weekly copy.

1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling xix. 196 There we met Dryblower Tom Mitchell, awaiting the return of his camel-team, to go prospecting.

1964 Penguin Bk. Austral. Ballads 208 A ‘dry~blower’ is a crude device, made of hessian and wooden saplings, and used in arid areas for separating gold from the ore.

dry-blowing n. Australian (see quot. 1894).

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1894 Argus (Melbourne) 28 Mar. 5/5 in E. E. Morris Austral Eng. (1898) When water is not available, as unfortunately is the case at Coolgardie, ‘dry blowing’ is resorted to. This is done by placing the pounded stuff [sc. alluvial ore] in one dish, and pouring it slowly at a certain height into the other. If there is any wind blowing it will carry away the powdered stuff; if there is no wind the breath will have to be used.

dry-bob n. (see Bob n.⁷); hence dry-bob vb.; (see also bob n.³ 1, 2).

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1865 W. L. Collins Etoniana xi. 172 Of course a ‘dry-bob’ boats occasionally, and a ‘wet-bob’ plays cricket.

1881 W. E. Norris Matrimony I. 73 You never used to dry-bob at Eton, did you?

dry-bone n. U.S. a miner's name for the silicate and other ores of zinc (Dana 1868).

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1868 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 5) 692 Dry-bone.

dry-bones n. a contemptuous or familiar term for a thin or withered person, who has little flesh on his bones.

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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [noun] > thin shape > person having

staffc1405

notomy1487

rakea1529

crag1542

scrag1542

sneakbill1546

starveling1546

slim1548

ghost1590

bald-rib1598

bare-bone1598

bow-case1599

atomy1600

sneaksbill1602

thin-gut1602

anatomya1616

sharg1623

skeleton1630

raw-bone1635

living skeleton1650

strammel1706

scarecrow1711

rickle of bones1729

shargar1754

squeeze-crab1785

rack of bones1804

thread-paper1824

bag of bones1838

dry-bones1845

skinnymalink1870

hairpin1879

slim jim1889

skinny1907

underweight1910

asthenic1925

ectomorph1940

skinny-malinky1957

matchstick1959

1845 G. P. R. James Arrah Neil III. xiv Ha, old dry-bones, have I caught thee at length?

dry brush n. (see quots.); frequently attributive.

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1911 H. P. Bowie On Laws Japanese Painting iv. 66 Dry twig or old firewood line..is generally used in the robes of old men and produced by what is called the dry brush; that is, a brush with very little water mixed with the sumi.

1958 M. L. Wolf Dict. Painting 88 Dry brush, in Chinese art, a painting technique in which the ink is used sparingly with a minimum of moisture in the brush; known natively as kan pi.

1959 J. Halas & R. Manvell Technique Film Animation xix. 220 If the area common to the drawings is..less than two-thirds, then dry brush effects can be used to join the two objects.

dry-bulb thermometer n. one of the two thermometers of which a dry- and wet-bulb hygrometer consists.

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1882 H. Watts Dict. Chem. III. 227 Table I. To obtain the dew-point, multiply the difference of reading of the thermometers by the factor opposite the dry-bulb reading, and subtract the product from the dry-bulb reading.

dry camp n. U.S. a camp or halt where there is no water.

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1869 J. R. Browne Adventures Apache Country 128 We made a dry camp till morning.

1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xxviii. 615 We..find a pool with water enough for our horses, and to fill our jugs, as we must make a ‘dry camp’ to-night.

1887 Outing 10 4/2 We halted on an open place..and went into dry camp.

1920 J. M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas I. 312 The round up boss..called for two or three men..to make what is called a ‘dry camp’.

dry-castor n. ‘a kind of beaver, called also parchment-beaver’ (Webster 1864).

dry cell n. a voltaic cell in which the electrolyte is contained in an absorbent material or is in the form of a paste, thus preventing spilling of the contents.

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1893 P. Benjamin Voltaic Cell xv. 309 Dry cells are best adapted to circumstances where current is intermittently needed and then only for a short time.

1936 Discovery Sept. 285/2 Causing a current from a battery of dry cells to pass through the fine wire.

dry-cooper n. a cooper who makes casks, etc. for dry goods.

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of containers or receptacles > [noun] > maker of casks or cooper > types of

white cooper1688

dry-cooper1715

under-cooper1745

butt cooper1813

tight cooper1889

herring-cooper1892

1715 London Gaz. No. 5308/3 Mr. Henry Taylor, Dry Cooper.

dry diggings n. (a) (originally U.S.) gold-diggings on high land or away from a river or stream; (b) in South Africa, diamond-diggings at which the diamondiferous material is disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere.

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1848 Californian 14 Aug. 2/3 In one part of the mine called the ‘dry diggins’, no other implements are necessary than an ordinary sheath knife, to pick the gold from the rocks.

1853 Househ. Words 8 321/1 The dry diggings at least furnish equal proof of energy and industry.

1858 Brit. Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 11 Dec. 1/2 These are in fact a species of dry diggings.

1858 W. Howitt Land, Labour & Gold (ed. 2) I. xi. 126 Next came the dry diggings; these were far enough from the stream to be free of its drainage.

1862 E. Hodder Mem. N.Z. Life 222 There are two principal kinds of diggings: river diggings..and dry diggings, in the conglomerate and gravel accumulated on the slope of the mountains.

1873 F. Boyle To Cape for Diamonds 123 Four ‘dry diggings’:—New Rush..Old De Beers, Dutoitspan, and Bultfontein.

1889 K. Munroe Golden Days of ’49 x. 111 The dry diggings were those of hill-sides, or in gulches containing no steady supply of water.

1899 G. Lacy Pict. of Trav. 173 The ‘dry diggings’ are thirty miles to the south-east of Pniel. They are so called because the gems are not found in river-wash, but in dry tufa, which has apparently never been in contact with water.

1910 J. Hart Vigilante Girl xxiv. 326 It had been a ‘dry diggings’, and the skeleton line of a long flume ran thread-like along the mountains.

1920 J. M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas 43 This being Dry Diggings, meaning no gold to be found,..we all scattered.

dry-dike n. = dry-stone dyke at dike n.¹ 6b.

dry-diked adj.

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1907 Macmillan's Mag. Jan. 196 The platform..was some fifty feet above the valley, and the stones on its face, which was almost perpendicular, appeared to be irregularly dry-dyked.

dry-diker n.

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1905 Spectator 11 Feb. 211/1 In the Boer War the ‘dry dikers’ of a certain East Yorkshire regiment used to be asked to volunteer to build ‘sangars’.

† dry-ditch v. Obsolete (transitive) to work at (anything) without result, like one digging a ditch into which no water flows.

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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail [verb (intransitive)] > expend effort in vain

to lose or spill one's whilec1175

to speak to the windc1330

tinec1330

to beat the windc1375

lose?a1513

to boil, roast, or wash a stonea1529

to lose (one's) oil1548

to plough the sand (also sands)a1565

to wash an ass's head (or ears)1581

to wash an Ethiop, a blackamoor (white)1581

to wash a wall of loam, a brick or tilea1600

to milk the bull (also he-goat, ram)1616

to bark against (or at) the moona1641

dead horse1640

to cast stones against the wind1657

dry-ditcha1670

baffle1860

to go, run or rush (a)round in circles1933

a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 98 His adversaries did dry-ditch their matters and digg'd in vain.

dry end n. that end of a paper-making or drying-machine from which the material emerges dry.

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1894 J. Dunbar Notes Manuf. Wood Pulp & Papers 39 The temperature of the cylinders was too high at the dry end of the machine to produce the desired result.

1927 T. Woodhouse Artificial Silk: Manuf. & Uses iii. 26 The delivery-end or ‘dry-end’ of a pulp drying machine.

1962 F. T. Day Introd. to Paper iv. 36 The beginning of the paper making machine is described as the ‘wet end’, whilst the other end of the machine, which consists of drying cylinders and paper finishing calenders, is called the ‘dry end’.

dry farm n. and v.

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1919 E. Hough Sagebrusher xxxiii A few scattered dry farms, edging up close to the river in the valley far below.

1952 D. F. Putnam Canad. Regions 376/2 The extra size of the dry farms.

1971 L. Davidson Smith's Gazelle iii. 50 The sheep could graze among the table rock and the wheat could be dry-farmed on most of the rest.

dry farmer n.

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1912 R. A. Wason Friar Tuck iii. 34 Next came the dry farmer.

1919 H. L. Wilson Ma Pettengill v. 155 The forlorn shack of a dry-farmer.

dry farming n. chiefly North American farming without a good supply of water.

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the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > types of farming

high culture1771

scientific farming1789

metaying1792

high farming1815

petite culture1848

sharefarming1857

urban agriculture1860

bush-farming1866

mixed farming1872

dry farming1878

co-aration1883

co-ploughing1883

smallholding1889

power-farming1913

dry-land farming1914

third(s)-and-fourth(s)1940

link system1950

green revolution1968

1878 J. W. Powell Rep. Lands Arid Region 78 A company of Danes..have obtained a meagre subsistence by dry farming.

1906 Nature 26 July 304/2 The scientific aspect of what has been designated in the United States as ‘dry-farming’ consists in utilising to the best advantage all the water that falls in semi-arid regions.

1908 Sci. Amer. 22 Aug. 120 ‘Dry farming’ consists in so preparing the soil in semi-arid regions that it will catch what little annual rainfall there is, and store it within reach of the roots of the plants to be grown.

1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling xiii. 113 An Experimental Farm was started to carry out investigations with regard to cereals under dry-farming conditions.

1961 L. D. Stamp Gloss. Geogr. Terms 165/2 Dry farming implies a specialized technological treatment of land to overcome the short supply of water.

dry-fly adj. and v. Angling used to describe a method of fishing in which an artificial fly floats lightly on the water; an artificial fly used in this type of fishing.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [adjective] > angling > using fly

dry-fly1846

fly-fishing1858

1846 G. P. R. Pulman Vade-mecum of Fly-fishing (ed. 2) vii. 84 If the dry fly be widely different in these respects, the fish will be surprised.

1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 June 4/2 The beautiful and delicate art of fishing with the dry fly.

1893 National Observer 5 Aug. 300/2 You must creep up-stream as warily as if you were dry-flying it on the Hampshire chalk.

1897 Westm. Gaz. 7 Apr. 3/1 Dry Fly fishing is..using a dry and floating fly instead of a wet and sunk one.

1913 Q. Rev. July 66 Dry-fly fishing for sea trout is still in its infancy.

dry fuck n. U.S. coarse slang (a) a simulated act of sexual intercourse, without penetration and usually without removing the clothes; (b) an unsatisfactory act of intercourse, esp. one which does not result in ejaculation or orgasm; so as v., to engage in intercourse of this kind.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > other types of sexual activity or intercourse > [noun] > other specific

vera copula1850

knee-trembler1896

gang-banging1949

gang-bang1950

gang-up1951

wham, bam, thank you ma'am1956

tribadism1962

bareback1963

Princeton1965

safe sex1968

onion1969

dry fuck1971

dry hump1972

barebacking1991

scissoring2003

1970 E. Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1113/1 Dry, adj., is, in Australia, used with the low nn. of coïtion for rape and homosexual intercourse: since ca. 1950.]

1971 E. E. Landy Underground Dict. 71 Dry fuck v., go through the motions of sexual intercourse without entering the vagina, usually with clothes on. Performed by junior-high-school and high-school students. n. The simulated act of sexual intercourse with clothes on.

1975 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (new ed.) Suppl. 695/1 Dry fuck [taboo], 1 To go through the motions of sexual intercourse without penetration, usu. without removing the clothes. Junior high-school and high-school student use. 2 Unsatisfying sexual intercourse, as when done hurriedly or without emotional involvement, esp. when it does not result in ejaculation or orgasm.

1979 Maledicta 3 ii. 231 A gay..may or may not know the following words and expressions:..dry fuck (without penetration, or without ky or other lubricant such as vaseline or Crisco).

dry hopping n. (see quot. 1956).

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1890 Daily News 14 Oct. 2/3 English hops suitable for fine ale brewing or dry hopping must prove to be in limited supply.

1956 New Biol. 21 14 Dry hopping is the practice of adding hops to the barrel of finished beer before it leaves the brewery. It gives added aroma and to some degree additional biological stability.

dry house n. a building in which miners change their clothing (also called drying-house, or dry).

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1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 130/1 Drawing of Dry House where miners change their clothes.

dry ice n. originally U.S. solid carbon dioxide.

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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [noun] > frozen condition > solid carbon dioxide

dry ice1925

the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > carbon > [noun] > compounds > solid carbon dioxide

dry ice1925

1925 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 28 Apr. 850/2 Dryice Corporation of America..Dry Ice, Carbon Dioxide (C O₂) in Solidified Forms, Mixtures, and Compounds.

1930 Engineering 17 Oct. 504/2 The oxidation of carbon-monoxide from electro-metallurgical and calcium-carbide furnaces to carbon dioxide for producing ‘dry ice’, or solid carbon-dioxide.

1938 Archit. Rev. 84 119 Dry-ice refrigeration unit accommodating approximately 180 half-pint cartons of milk.

1968 Times 17 Oct. 18/6 The traps were baited with solid carbon dioxide, or dry ice, which evaporated at the rate of about three litres a minute.

dry joint n. a soldered joint with faulty electrical continuity.

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1933 H. J. B. Chapple Television ii. 38 Unless [soldering is] thoroughly understood..a set fails to function owing to weak or dry joints.

1940 Amateur Radio Handbk. (ed. 2) iii. 42/2 The best and safest flux is pure resin, although it..needs greater care if dry joints are to be avoided.

1960 P.O. Telecommunications Jrnl. 12 92/2 As ‘dry’ or imperfectly soldered joints may not show up until after the equipment has been in use for some time..any operator employed on soldering should have had adequate practice.

dry lodging n. lodging without board.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [noun] > without board

dry lodging1825

1825 Hist. Little Pat in Houlston Tracts I. xi. 3 She..lived in one of those cellars which have ‘dry lodgings’ written over the door.

1829 W. Scott Old Mortality Introd., in Waverley Novels IX. 233 To drye Lodginge for seven weeks, £0 4 1.

dry-march n. a march or boundary-line not formed by a river or water.

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1820 W. Scott Monastery I. vi. 194 The last who went south passed the dry-march at the Riding-burn with an escort of thirty spears.

dry mass n. an abbreviated mass without either consecration or communion, said when the celebration of a full mass is not permitted. [After post-classical Latin missa sicca (12th cent. in a British source).]

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1957 Oxf. Dict. Christian Church Dry Mass, an abbreviated form of Mass... It survives among the Carthusians, who say a Dry Mass of Our Lady in their cells after Prime.

1972 J. G. Davies Dict. Liturgy & Worship at Ante-communion The dry mass of the Middle Ages..consisted..at the most of the whole rite of the mass except the canon and the use and presence of the elements of their vessels.

dry mounting n. a method of mounting photographs (see quot. 1958).

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1903 Photogram 10 320/1 Wet or dry mounting.

1958 V. Drumm in M. L. Hall Newnes' Complete Amateur Photogr. xxxv. 329 The best method of mounting photographic prints is with the use of dry-mounting tissue in a hot press. The tissue is impregnated with shellac which melts at approximately 160 °F.

dry multure n. see multure v.

dry-needle n. = dry-point

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?1790 J. Imison Curious & Misc. Articles (new ed.) 48 in School of Arts (ed. 2) The dry needle..is principally employed in the extreme light parts of water, sky, drapery, architecture, &c.

dry norther n. U.S. a north wind not accompanied by rain.

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1871–3 Texas Almanac 97 The people here in Texas divide these winter storms into ‘wet northers’ and ‘dry northers’.

dry offset n. (see quots.).

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1958 T. Landau Encycl. Librarianship 113/2 Dry offset, printing by letterpress to a rubber cylinder from which impressions are taken on to paper.

1967 R. R. Karch & E. J. Buber Graphic Arts Procedures: Offset Processes ii. 30 Dry Offset. A shallow-etched relief plate transfers the image to a rubber blanket on a cylinder. The press needs no moistening rollers.

dry pack n. see pack n.¹

dry pile n. a voltaic pile in which no liquid is used, and which generates a feeble but very permanent current.

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1890 R. M. Walmsley Wormell's Electr. in Service of Man 108 Dry piles—that is, batteries where no fluids were used—were first constructed by Behrens (1806).

dry-pile adj. (also †dripile) with the pile dry.

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1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xx. cxxiv. 388 And loue will shoote you from his mightie bow, Weake is the shot that dripile falles in snow.

dry-plate n. Photography a sheet of glass coated with collodion subsequently sensitized and dried, or, more usually, with an emulsion of gelatine (or collodion) containing a sensitive silver salt, and exposed to the action of light in a dry state.

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1859 Photogr. News I. 296 Some difference of opinion exists as to the collodion best suited for dry plates.

1878 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. (1890) 91 In the development of dry plates..the image..is built up from the solid silver salt in the film itself.

1878 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. (1890) 91 The practical part of dry-plate processes.

dry-plate clutch n. Mechanics a plate clutch which operates without lubrication.

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1927 Observer 15 May 22 A..dry plate clutch.

1928 Motor World 9 Mar. 162/2 There is an enclosed dry plate clutch, a three-speed unit gear-box.

dry pleurisy n. (formerly) pleurisy without expectoration; (now) pleurisy without effusion.

dry-point n. Engraving (a) a sharp-pointed needle used for engraving without acid on a copper plate from which the etching-ground has been removed; (b) the process of engraving in this way, or an engraving so executed; hence dry-point vb.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > [noun] > engraving tools

pouncer1552

graving tool1591

pounce1598

puncheon1659

burin1662

eschoppe1662

graver1662

needle1662

point1662

style1662

sculpter1680

scalper1688

small chisel1749

roulette1806

engraver1821

dry-point1837

scooper1837

stylet1853

tint-tool1869

diamond-point1874

spit-sticker1909

bull-sticker1933

1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 216 The drypoint, or needle, is principally employed for the lightest parts of the engraving on the copper plate.

1883 Athenæum 24 Feb. 256/1 The etchings and dry-points of Venetian views which Mr. Whistler is showing.

1920 M. Aurousseau in Geogr. Rev. 10 228 We have two special cases of arrangements governed by water supply—the extreme conditions giving rise to what we will term wet point villages and dry point villages.

dry-point settlement n.

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1946 L. D. Stamp Britain's Struct. & Scenery xv. 173 For a thousand years these scattered ‘dry-point’ settlements remained typical of the heart of what is now Greater London.

dry-point village n. one which is not liable to flooding.

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dry-puddling n. see puddling n.:

† dry pump n. Obsolete a pump for pouring a stream of water over part of a person's body as a medical treatment without getting any other part wet; cf. pumping n.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other medical equipment > [noun] > hydrotherapy equipment

dry pump1632

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packing sheet1869

whirlpool1975

1632 E. Jorden Disc. Nat. Bathes (ed. 2) xvii. 135 Wee haue a Pump out of the hot Bath, which wee call the dry Pump, where one may sit in a chaire in his cloathes, & haue his head, or foot, or knee pumped.

1676 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 350 I went to the Bath for the recovery of my hearing... I received at the drie pump in the King's bath nine thousand two hundred and odd pumps on my head in about a fourtnight's time.

1806 Guide to Watering Places 27 Pumping in the King's and Queen's bath, 2d. each hundred strokes; at the dry pump, 4d. each hundred strokes.

† dry pumping n. Obsolete the action of pouring a stream of water from a pump over part of a person's body so as not to get the rest of the body wet.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments using water > [noun] > treatment by bathing, sprinkling, or fomenting

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1840 Orig. Bath Guide 39 An apartment..for douching or dry pumping, i.e. pumping on any particular part of the body.

† dry-rent n. a rent seck n. or barren rent, i.e. one reserved without clause of distress (obsolete).

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1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana Introd. sig. B2 Worth a matter of four millions dry rents.

dry shampoo n. (see quot. 1966).

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing agents > [noun] > shampoo

shampoo1838

dry shampoo1890

peroxide shampoo1966

1890 Hairdressers' Weekly Jrnl. 14 June 383/2 (advt.) Niagara Foam..an American dry shampoo..20/- per gallon.

1913 Queen 24 May (advt.) When you want your hair to look extra nice and bright..just treat it to a dry shampoo with..Hair Powder.

1928 Queen Feb. 271/2 Dry Shampoo. Carbonate of Potash 1 oz. Water 32 ozs. Saponine ½ oz. Industrial Spirit 32 oz. Perfume, as desired.

1966 J. Stevens Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing & Wigmaking 49/2 Dry shampoo. (1) A shampoo in powder form which is applied to the head as a powder, massaged in and then brushed out... (2) A shampoo composed of industrial methylated spirit or isopropyl alcohol and water with the addition of a foaming element such as saponin.

dry shaver n. an electric or other razor for use without soap and water.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > implements used in styling the hair > [noun] > razor

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straight-edge razor1972

1937 Night & Day 1 July 4/2 (advt.) If you drive a car you'll shave with a Schick dry shaver.

1963 B.S.I. News Feb. 33 This revision will specify the requirements for mains-operated dry shavers.

dry-shearer n. a workman whose business is to shear the nap of cloth.

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1724 J. Chamberlayne in Philos. Trans. 1722–3 (Royal Soc.) 32 161 A kind of Tumor..as the Dry-sheerers, or those who dress Cloth, have upon their left Hands.

dry-ski adj. designating a school, etc., for indoor training in skiing.

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1954 Springfield (Mass.) Daily News 10 Nov. 22 The dry ski class..will begin tonight.

1957 Times 25 Nov. 11/4 Dry-ski schools which help muscles to become more flexible and teach beginners the basic movements.

dry skid n. a skid of a motor vehicle on a dry surface.

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1958 A. Hocking Epit. for Nurse xi. 197 Taking a gravelly sharp corner at an almost reckless speed she got into a dry skid.

dry-skid v. (intransitive) .

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1961 I. Fleming Thunderball ii. 23 The Bentley dry~skidded to a stop in the gravel.

dry-skin n. (see quot.).

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1701 C. Wooley Two Years Jrnl. N.-Y. 45 If the Blubber be not fat and free, the Whale is call'd a Dry-Skin.

dry spell n. a period of dry weather (see quot. 1920).

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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > dry weather or climate > [noun] > spell of

absolute drought1881

dry spell1887

1887 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 23 Aug. 5 Everybody found smoking on the streets..during the dry spell was liable to be arrested.

1920 British Rainfall 1919 27 A Dry Spell is a period of fifteen or more consecutive days no one of which is a ‘Wet Day’.

1961 Amer. Speech 36 267 A sharp distinction is observed in Colorado between the relatively long drouth and the relatively short dry spell.

dry spinning n. a method of spinning natural or artificial fibres (see quots. 1904, 1957¹); hence dry-spin vb. trans., dry-spun adj.

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1864 A. J. Warden Linen Trade v. 697 Wet spinning differs chiefly from..dry spinning in having the spinning frame furnished with a receptacle for holding water.

1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 177/2 Dry spinning, flax may be spun wet or dry, the latter giving a softer and more spongy yarn.

1921 T. Woodhouse tr. J. Foltzer Artificial Silk iv. 23 Spinning with the aid of water,..has been replaced by a system of dry spinning.

1957 Textile Terms & Defs. (Textile Inst.) (ed. 3) 94 Dry spinning is the process in which a solution of the polymer is extruded into a heated chamber to remove the solvent, leaving the solid filament.

1957 Textile Terms & Defs. (Textile Inst.) (ed. 3) 39 Dry-spun.

1963 A. J. Hall Student's Handbk. Textile Sci. ii. 75 Solutions which can be dry spun—that is, into warm air to evaporate off the solvent and leave solidified filaments behind.

dry-stone adj. applied to a ‘dike’ or stone wall built without mortar, cf. dike n.¹ 6b. [Compare post-classical Latin sicco lapide (ablative) with dry stone (13th cent. in a British source).]

c1702 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) ii. iii. 83 You scarce see a tree and No hedges all over y^e Country, only dry stone walls.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality i. (note) , in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 13 Called, by the vulgar, a dry-stane dyke.

1878 C. R. Conder Tent Wk. Palestine 312 Siloam—a most disappointing pool with dry-stone walls and a little muddy water.

dry-stove n. a stove for plants, with dry heat.

dry suit n. a type of diving suit, usually made of sheet rubber, which uses the principle of air-insulation to protect the diver from cold, and under which warm clothing can be worn.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > one-piece garment > [noun]

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diving-suit1908

bunting1914

teddy bear1917

leotard1920

Sidcot1921

sleeper1921

romper1922

pressure suit1923

boiler suit1928

maillot1928

mono1937

footy1938

all-in-one1939

siren suit1939

goonskin1943

anti-g suit1945

G-suit1945

jump suit1948

immersion suit1951

moon suit1953

poopy suit1953

dry suit1955

wetsuit1955

sleepsuit1958

Babygro1959

tank suit1959

cat-suit1960

penguin suit1961

unitard1961

bodysuit1963

shortall1966

steamer1982

1955 R. Carrier & B. Carrier Dive iv. 118 Rubber suits have been designed to protect the diver from the effects of cold water. There are two basic types..the ‘wet suit’ and the ‘dry suit’.

1955 R. Carrier & B. Carrier Dive iv. 120 The next best thing is..a sealed sheet-rubber dry suit worn with one or more suits of long underwear or wool sweaters underneath.

1971 B. Graham Spy Trap xii. 84 Crabb had bought a new black Pirelli dry suit.

dry valley n. a valley in which the original stream or river has disappeared.

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1898 J. Geikie Earth Sculpture xiii. 217 Not less characteristic features of the karst-lands are the so-called blind-valleys and dry-valleys. Through the former a river flows to disappear into a tunnel at the closed or blind end.

1927 C. C. Fagg in Proc. & Trans. Croydon Nat. Hist. Soc. 9 94 The development of the dry valleys of the Chalk belongs to the more recent phases of the Denudation of the Weald.

1927 C. C. Fagg in Proc. & Trans. Croydon Nat. Hist. Soc. 9 96 (caption) The Dry Valley Systems.

1961 L. D. Stamp Gloss. Geogr. Terms 166/1 The origin of the dry valleys of the Chalk.

dry wall n. a wall built without mortar.

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1778 G. White Let. 3 July in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 236 Lathræa squammaria, tooth-wort..on the dry wall opposite Grange-yard.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Dry-wall, a wall without lime.

1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. (1877) iii. 48 A dry wall of the same height and stability.

dry-wall v. (transitive and intransitive) to build a dry wall (around); dry-waller, dry-walling.

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1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 450/1 The materials..may be built up alone (dry walling) or with the aid of mortar or hydraulic cement.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Dry-waller.

1914 G. Jekyll Colour Schemes for Flower Garden (ed. 3) ix. 86 An earth bank four and a half feet high, dry-walled on both sides.

1922 Daily Mail 10 Nov. 8/5 A dry-waller has to be born, not made. So old William told me when I found him dry-walling.

1928 H. Peake & H. J. Fleure Steppe & Sown 116 A certain amount of dry walling was used.

dry wash n. North American the dry bed of an intermittent stream.

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1872 J. G. Bourke Diary 25 Nov. (2003) I. 29 There is a drywash on this road.

1926 C. E. Mulford Cassidy's Protégé ix. 110 A bridge spanned a dry-wash, dry most of the year.

1962 Bad Lands of Red Deer River (Board of Trade, Alberta) 25 The pieces..are lying scattered at the base of the cliffs or in dry washes where they have been carried by run-off.

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Also by extension, abstaining from alcoholic drink, esp. after becoming addicted; having stopped taking an addictive drug.

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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drug addiction or craving > [adjective] > abstaining from drink or drugs after addiction

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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [adjective] > total abstinence > after addiction

dry1941

1941 J. Smiley Hash House Lingo 23 Dry, sober.

1968 T. Leary Politics of Ecstasy iv. 79 Several independent studies in Canada have found that 50 to 60 percent of alcoholics given one session with LSD stay ‘dry’ for follow-up periods from 6 months to 1 year.

1979 R. Jaffe Class Reunion i. 122 For him to make her mother stay dry he first had to admit she was a lush.

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Of a sound: harsh, discordant, rasping.

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [adjective]

hardOE

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coarse1879

callithumpian1886

dissonantal1946

ear-bending1946

sandpaper1953

1819 W. Wordsworth Peter Bell i. 36 Once more the Ass did lengthen out More ruefully an endless shout, The long dry see-saw of his horrible bray!

1932 W. Faulkner Light in August i. 5 A series of dry sluggish reports carrying for a half mile across the hot still pinewiney silence of the August afternoon.

1987 P. Lively Moon Tiger xi. 134 The dry squeak of chalk on school blackboards.

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Chiefly Singapore English. Of noodles: not served in a soup, but in a sauce or with dry ingredients.

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1972 New Nation (Singapore) 18 Nov. 7/2 Known as ‘sa hor fun’ or ‘sa hor hoon’, these riceflour noodles are served either ‘wet’ (in a soup) or ‘dry’ (that is, stirred through with other ingredients and served on a plate).

1992 Free China Rev. Apr. 53/2 When the munchies hit, there is always a place nearby selling small bowls of meat sauce noodles, dry or in soup.

1999 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 25 July (Sunday Plus section) 10 By day, he sells prawn noodles (the soup and dry sort).

2013 Business Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 30 Mar. Customers can choose to have their noodles in the soup or opt for a dry version.

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dry sink n. North American History a counter-height furniture cabinet with an inset sink or basin which is not connected to a water supply.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > cupboard or cabinet > [noun] > kitchen > with sink not connected to water supply

dry sink1946

1946 Hobbies Oct. 74/3 (advt.) Vermont pine dry sink to be used as a cellaret or fernery.

1959 L. Gross Housewives' Guide to Antiques vii. 71 Dry sinks, made as late as the 1890's..are usually of pine, the sink part sometimes found lined with tin.

1987 N.Y. Times 8 Mar. xxiii. 14/6 Mr. Frajola's auctions are not usually filled with the folks who could be found hunting for a bargain umbrella stand or dry sink.

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dry slope n. an artificial ski slope used esp. for training or out-of-season practice.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skiing > [noun] > ski slope or run

piste1917

nursery slope1924

ski run1924

ski slope1934

schuss1937

fall line1938

bunny slope1954

run1956

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slope1972

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1963 Ski-ing (‘Know the Game’ Ser.) (ed. 2) 3 Some schools recommend a course which starts with dry ski lessons and ends with instruction on a plastic slope.]

1974 H. Evans et al. We learned to Ski i. 44/2 Beginners who have been on the dry slope may go here.

1987 Observer 11 Oct. 56/8 Dry slopes are much better than you might expect, and dry slope skiing is becoming a sport in itself for those unable to get away to the mountains.

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dry wall n. North American (now usually drywall) = plasterboard n.; frequently attributive.

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1950 Better Homes & Gardens Nov. 42/1 ‘Dry-wall’ construction is a comparatively new term. It is a way to finish interior walls with dry materials.

1965 Pop. Mech. Apr. 162/1 The most common use of drywall—also called gypsum wallboard and plasterboard—is in finishing a new room.

1980 Family Handyman Sept. 49/3 Cut out a small opening in the center of the outline with a drywall saw.

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dry-fried adj. (of food) (originally) fried in just enough oil to prevent food sticking to the pan; (now usually) fried without adding oil or fat to the pan.

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1941 N.Y. Times 5 Jan. x. 10/2 They usually offer some specialty, ‘chicken-in-the-rough’, which is dry-fried chicken to be eaten with the fingers.

1998 N. Lawson How to Eat (1999) 197 When I want to eat properly but in a hurry, I lunch on grilled trout, dry-fried herring, or mackerel fillets with pickled ginger and soy sauce.

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dry-fry v. transitive (originally) to fry (food) in just enough oil to prevent food sticking to the pan; (now usually) to fry (food) without adding oil or fat to the pan.

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1979 N.Y. Times 19 Dec. c6/3 Place the marinade ingredients in a dry wok. Turn heat to medium and dry fry the spices for about five minutes.

1982 Life (Nexis) June 67 Heat the wok, add the peppercorns and dry-fry about 30 seconds until they swell and become fragrant.

1998 BBC Good Food Sept. 64/2 Sprinkle the breadcrumbs and cinnamon into the pan and dry fry, stirring occasionally, until toasted and crisp.

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dry-frying n. (originally) frying in just enough oil to prevent food sticking to the pan; (now usually) frying food without adding oil or fat to the pan.

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1930 Cookery & Catering Man. (Brit. Red Cross Soc.) (ed. 2) iii. 36 Dry frying, or cooking in just enough fat to cover the bottom of the frying pan.

1952 N.Y. Times 17 Feb. 65 (advt.) Vital facts you must know about easy reducing!.. New method of ‘dry frying’. Eat as much without adding calories.

1982 Life (Nexis) June 67 The stuff of Sichuan kitchens is familiar to Western cooks, and the techniques are the basic and easily mastered Chinese methods of stir-frying, dry-frying, steaming and poaching.

1999 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 18 Apr. 5 I smoked the pork..instead of using the usual dry-frying or grilling method.

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dry garden n. a garden designed to require little or no watering, typically containing ornamental rocks and stones or plants which thrive in dry conditions.

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1959 S. Sitwell Bridge of Brocade Sash v. 100 We saw another small garden attributed to Sô-ami, in two portions, a moss garden and a dry garden.

1999 BBC Gardeners' World Apr. 148/3 The formal areas of this Surrey garden include extensive herbaceous borders, a modern-rose garden, a range of alpines and a dry garden.

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dry hump n. coarse slang (originally U.S.) = dry fuck n. at Compounds 3.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > other types of sexual activity or intercourse > [noun] > other specific

vera copula1850

knee-trembler1896

gang-banging1949

gang-bang1950

gang-up1951

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Princeton1965

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1972 National Lampoon Apr. 33/1 Oh, I figure to get dry humps about half the time. You gotta have space, though, like a sofa or on the beach.

1988 Playboy Aug. 43 Men can have sex on a dance floor with their clothes on grinding up against each other. The old dry hump as it were.

1997 OC Weekly (Nexis) 30 May 28 I'm doing the dry-hump cha-cha against her thigh just seconds, however, before she has me figured out.

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dry-hump v. coarse slang (originally U.S.) transitive to simulate sexual intercourse with; also occasionally intransitive; cf. dry hump n. at Additions.

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1964 J. Pearl Stockade v. 47 Larkin..flipped open the mattress. The gray..cover was stained... Think of all..the horny bastards who have dry-humped it.

1972 National Lampoon Apr. 33/1 You gotta have space, though, like a sofa or on the beach. You can't dry hump good in the car.

1991 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Oct. 275/2 I heard him referred to as the Presser, because he'd push girls into the corner and then press up against them. He would, to be crude about it, dry-hump people.

2001 Premiere June 96/1 Be sure to check out the Gag Reel, wherein Affleck moons the camera and dry-humps Paltrow.

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dry-humping n.

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1970 D. Wakefield All Way 143 It rated right along with dry-humping.

1991 Quarterly (U.S.) Summer 104 We call this dry humping when we do it in school!

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dry vermouth n. unsweetened vermouth, typically having a fairly bitter taste; cf. French vermouth n. at French adj. and n. Compounds 1b, sweet vermouth n. at sweet adj. and adv. Additions.

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1912 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 5 Feb. (advt.) Dollins dry Vermouth.

2005 Toro Oct. 41/2 Or there's always the Knickerbocker, another near-cousin of the original martini. Four parts gin are joined by two parts dry vermouth and half a teaspoon of the sweet variety.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	dry
释义	dryn. Forms: see prec. Etymology: substantive use of dry adj. 1. a. Dry state or condition, esp. of the atmosphere; dryness, drought. With the: the dry season (chiefly Australian colloquial). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [noun] dryc1200 siccity1477 siccitude1599 parchedness1653 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > dry weather or climate > [noun] droughtc1175 dryc1200 dryth1571 rainlessness1848 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > dry weather or climate > [noun] > spell of > the dry season dry1897 c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 123 He..þoleð his unwille hwile druie and hwile wete. 1377 Pol. Poems (Rolls) I. 216 Thei dredde nother tempest, druyȝe nor wete. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 6365 For na drie ne for na wate, Ne changid þai neuer þair state. 1414 T. Brampton Paraphr. Seven Penit. Psalms lxxviii For dry myn herte to gydere is runne. 1480 W. Caxton Descr. Brit. 5 With colde ne with hete, with weet ne with drye. 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth (1723) vi. 272 Successions of Heat and Cold, Wet and Dry. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 279 At end of dry He cut his hay, to lie long in the rain. 1877 R. F. Burton in Athenæum 3 Nov. 568/3 Dead water during the dries, and a lake with two outlets after the annual rains. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 375 In February comes the short dry, then the short wet till May. 1908 J. Gunn We of Never-never vii. 88 I—I—thought you'd reckon that travellers' water for the Dry came before your rooms. 1938 X. Herbert Capricornia (1939) vii. 74 The Dry! the good old Dry—when the grasses yellowed, browned, died to tinder. 1955 J. Cleary Justin Bayard xi. 172 Thinking of coming down there later in the Dry. 1968 K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 35 As the dry progressed and the heat remained constant, they stopped breeding. †b. Thirst: cf. dry adj. 3. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > [noun] thirstc1000 dry1377 drought1393 thirstingc1500 drynessa1535 dryth1557 thirstiness1583 thirst-longing?1617 droughtiness1720 a spark in one's throat1721 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiv. 50 Ete þis whan þe hungreth, Or whan þow..clyngest for drye. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxx. 415 I dy nere for dry. 2. That which is dry. a. spec. dry land. in the dry: on, or as on, dry land; not under water. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > [noun] landc900 groundOE earthOE dry landa1225 sandc1275 dry1382 continent1590 fastland1680 terra firma1692 region1697 firm land1872 1382 J. Wyclif Psalms xciv[xcv]. 5 Of hym is the se, and he made it; and the drie his hondis formeden. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 383 Þe dri [he] cald erth. 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 56 When did the waves so haughtily o'erleap Their ancient barriers, deluging the dry? 1871 G. MacDonald Sonnets conc. Jesus vi When God said, ‘Let the Dry appear!’ b. Australian. A desert area; waterless country. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun] > barren land or desert > waterless droughta1000 dryheada1300 drynessa1398 carbuncle1577 jornada1828 thirst-land1878 dry land1893 thirst-country1895 thirst1906 dry1909 dust-bowl1936 1909 Bulletin (Sydney) 21 Jan. A seventy-five mile dry. 1938 Observer 30 Oct. 11/4 The swaggie's..billy-can..is carried full of water, so that if ‘on the wallaby’ over a long stretch of ‘the dry’ (waterless country) he can..be sure of his..‘billy tea’. c. A dry wine, cocktail, etc. (see dry adj. 8). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > types of wine > [noun] > dry wine vino secco1911 dry1953 1953 A. Upfield Murder must Wait xxiii. 205 We settled for a half bottle of gin and a few bottles of dry. 1958 ‘J. Welcome’ Run for Cover vi. 108 ‘Good evening, Herbert. A “Dry” please.’.. Herbert's dry martinis..were as pale as ice. 3. A drying-place, or drying-house. ΚΠ 1876 J. H. Collins in Jrnl. Soc. Arts 5 May 568/1 The floor or ‘pan’ of the dry is composed of fire-clay tiles. 1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 1/2 It is transferred to the drying-house or ‘dry’. 4. Masonry. ‘A fissure in a stone, intersecting it at various angles to its bed, and rendering it unfit to support a load’ (Ogilvie). ΚΠ 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Dry (in a stone,) a flaw. 5. a. A prohibitionist; a person who opposes the use of alcoholic liquors. colloquial (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [noun] > prohibition > prohibitionist prohibitionist1830 Maine law man1855 dry1888 pussyfoot1919 pussyfooter1923 1888 in A. Randall-Diehl Two Thousand Words Dry. 1896 Chicago Record 11 Feb. 6/5 Even though there might be some precincts where the ‘wets’ outnumbered the ‘drys’—yet the whole county would go dry. 1918 Lit. Digest 17 Aug. 39 The ‘drys’ lose the State by only a bare majority. 1920 Eye Opener (Calgary, Alberta) 7 Feb. 1/3 The drys cannot pretend much longer that Alberta is ‘prohibition’. 1930 Daily Express 6 Nov. 2/1 An active ‘Dry’. 1965 P. G. Wodehouse Galahad at Blandings i. 13 The woman who runs the school is a rabid Dry and won't let her staff so much as look at a snifter. 1970 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 610/2 The ‘drys’ assumed a considerable degree of power within both the Democratic and Republican parties. b. Politics slang. A politician (esp. a member of the Conservative party) who advocates economic stringency and individual responsibility, and uncompromisingly opposes high government spending. Contrasted with wet n.¹ 6. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British party politics > [noun] > Toryism or conservatism > a Tory or conservative > types of tantivy1680 roary1681 high Tory1706 high-flying Tory1708 Tory Democrat1805 Tory-Radical1834 neo-Tory1865 wet1980 dry1983 1983 Age (Melbourne) 5 Oct. 13 [Of U.K. politics] In contrast to the expansionist, protectionist and welfare-oriented Wets, the Dries stand for small government, economic rationality and individual responsibility. 1984 Times 16 Oct. 25/2 It is hard to see economic dries such as Mr. Ridley buying the channel tunnel arguments now. 1987 Sunday Tel. 19 July 20/7 For ten years the Tory party has been split between Wets and Dries. 6. a. The process of drying. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [noun] > making dry > instance of dry1957 1957 Economist 16 Nov. 579 (advt.) Soft, dry towelling that gives you a good, clean dry every single time. b. Theatre. The act of ‘drying up’ on the stage (see dry v. 5d, 2d). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [noun] > drying up dry1945 1945 M. Agate Madame Sarah ii. 22 She..adopted the English custom of the stage-manager keeping an eye on the book from the prompt-corner in case of a ‘dry’. 1960 News Chron. 14 Oct. 10/6 When no spark is struck..the effect is as embarrassing as a theatrical ‘dry’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). dryadj.adv. Brit. /drʌɪ/, U.S. /draɪ/ Forms: Old English drýge, Old English dríge, Middle English driȝe, Middle English drei(e, Middle English druie, Middle English driȝȝe ( Ormulum), Middle English druye, Middle English drue, Middle English–1600s drie, Middle English dryȝe, Middle English druiȝe, Middle English druyȝe, Middle English draye, Middle English dreȝe, Middle English drey(e, Middle English dri, Middle English–1600s 1800s drye, 1500s drygh, 1500s drigh, Middle English– dry. Etymology: Old English drýge ( < drûgi- ) in ablaut relation with Middle Dutch dröghe* , drōghe , Dutch droog , Middle Low German, Low German drög(e , droge , dreuge ( < draugi- ), < Germanic ablaut-series dreug- , draug- , drug- to be dry, whence also Old English drúgian to dry, drúgað drought n., and (with formative suffix) Old High German trochan, German trocken dry.With sense A. 19 compare post-classical Latin denarius siccus (13th cent.) pecunia sicca (14th cent.) hard cash, multa sicca form of duty paid in hard cash (13th cent.), French argent sec, perte sèche. A. adj. I. As a physical quality. 1. a. Destitute of or free from moisture; not wet or moist; arid; of the eyes, free from tears. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] dryc1000 unmoista1425 unwet1433 moistless1592 adry1599 c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xii. 43 He gæð geond drige stowa [Lindisf. G. dryia, Rushw. G. dryge, Hatton G. drege stowa]. a1175 Cott. Hom. 227 He hi ledde ofer sé mid dreie fote. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 87 God hom ledde ofer þa rede se, mid druȝe fotan. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 240 Ase þe desert is hard and draye. c1374 G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite 336 Ne never mo myne eyen two bee drye. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 125 Þei leien a dreie clooþ vndir. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 132/1 Dry fro moysture, siccus. ?1530 J. Rastell Pastyme of People sig. Aiv^v The ryuer of Trent drye in the somer, that men went ouer a fote drye. ?a1562 G. Cavendish Life Wolsey* (1959) 161 Among whome was not oon drie eye. 1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Heautontimoroumenos iii. ii, in Terence in Eng. 226 As dry as a kixe [= kex]. 1670 J. Narborough Jrnl. in Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) i. 52 The Air rather sharper and dryer. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 138 Rub his Temples, with fine Towels, dry . View more context for this quotation 1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 1 299 Atmospheric air in the driest possible state. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. ii. 32 Till every blade is as dry as a bone. 1834 Orange Song in Hansard Commons (1836) 28 Mar. 717 Then put your trust in God, my boys, And keep your powder dry! †b. In medieval physiology: One of the fundamental qualities of elements, humours, planets, etc.; opposed to moist. (See cold adj. 6) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical elements > [adjective] > qualities of dryc888 earthya1398 c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxiii. §4 Sie eorþ is dryge and ceald. c1050 Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia (1885) 8 299 Eorðe ys ceald and drigge. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3563 His blode þan wexus dri and cald. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 10 Þe qualitees..ben foure: hoot, coold, moist and drie. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. lxxviii. 426 Aconit is hoate and drie in the fourth degree. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iii. xv. 169 Saturne and Mercury the Patrons of Learning, are both dry Planets. 1819 J. Wilson Compl. Dict. Astrol. 3 Madness, melancholy..and all diseases proceeding from a dry habit. c. Of a season or climate: Free from or deficient in rain; having scanty rainfall; not rainy. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > dry weather or climate > [adjective] > deficient in rainfall dry1297 droughty1605 arid1730 Dryasdust1889 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 531 Thulke ȝer was that somer so druye & so hot. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 165 Dame Nature..bad eik Iuno..That scho the hevin suld keip amene and dry. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 560 Mise are multiplied in drie seasons. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §807 A Drie March, and a Drie May, portend a Wholesome Summer, if there be a Showring Aprill betweene. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 229 The summer had been the dryest that was known of some years. a1897 Mod. Arable land that does fairly well in a dry year. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 375 In February comes the short dry, then the short wet till May. 1932 J. S. Huxley Probl. Relative Growth ii. 71 The wet-season and dry-season forms of certain tropical butterflies. 1964 C. Willock Enormous Zoo vii. 113 A Rhodesian dry season track which was rarely used by vehicles. 2. a. That has given up or lost its natural or ordinary moisture; dried, desiccated, parched, withered. Now archaic or sunk in sense A. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > dried (up) dryc950 drieda1340 desiccatec1420 undriedc1440 exsiccate1540 mummianized1593 exsiccated1646 exust1657 desiccateda1676 dehydrated1884 dehumidified1940 c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Luke xxiii. 31 Forðon gif in groene tree ðas doað, in drygi huæd worðes? [Rushw. on dryge, Ags. G. on þam drigean.] ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 202 Druȝe spritlen beoreð win berien. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. xxxvii. 932 Dias seiþ þat among fruyte is druye figges sweteste [emended in ed. to among fruytes druye figge is sweteste]. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 20747 His arms war al clungen dri [Gött. drei, Fairf. dry]. ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 3523 When my mouthe was dry for thrist. 1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias xxiv. 61 Greate store of drie Cinamon. 1677 London Gaz. No. 1232/1 3 French Prizes, laden with dry Fish from Newfoundland. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters i. 79 A dry tongue can no more taste, than a dry eye see..distinctly. b. Said of a body of water, or of moisture on a surface, that has disappeared by evaporation, or by being wiped or drained away: Dried up. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > dried (up) > of fluid > by evaporation dryc1405 c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 2160 The brode Ryuer som tyme wexeth dreye. 1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors i. f. 2^v If there be a plash of water..standing in the heate of the sunne, it wyl soone be drye. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 279 We saw a quadrangled dry Pond. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World v. 95 Some small Rivers..are dry at certain seasons of the year. 1707 I. Watts Hymns & Spiritual Songs ii. 106 Then let our Songs abound, And every Tear be dry. ?1799 in J. W. Cole Lives Generals Penin. War (1832) I. ii. 78 Before the sweat was dry on his brow. 3. a. Of persons: Wanting or desirous of drink; thirsty. Cf. adry adv. (Now only in informal use.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > [adjective] thirstyc950 ofthirstOE athirstc1305 thirstinga1382 dry1406 thirstlewc1425 altered1596 adry1599 droughty1626 chapped1673 bone-dry1920 1406 T. Hoccleve La Male Regle 135 The thirsty hete of hertes drie. c1525 J. Rastell New Commodye Propertes of Women sig. Biii To ete when I wyll & drynk when I am dry. 1657 A. Cokayne Obstinate Lady v. iii. 49 Boy. I am very drie with singing and dancing. Jaq. Follow me to the Wine-Sellar. 1712 A. W. Boehm tr. St. Bernard of Clairvaux in tr. J. Arnot True Christianity I. ii. 600 I ever drink, yet am I ever dry. 1807 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) II. 182 I returned hungry, weary and dry, and had only snow to supply the calls of nature. 1890 Beeton's Christm. Ann. 17 Come in, you look dry; let's have a wet. figurative.a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 112 So drie he was for Sway. View more context for this quotation b. transferred. Of things or conditions: Causing thirst. ΚΠ 1897 N.E.D. at Dry Mod. Better have a pint; it's dry work. 4. a. Not yielding water (or other liquid); exhausted of its supply of liquid. ΚΠ a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 310 (MED) He es welle þat neuer is drey. 1576 A. Fleming tr. G. Macropedius in Panoplie Epist. 378 It would..drawe the veyne of mine invention drie. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iv. xiii. 304 It must be a dry flower..out of which this bee sucks no honey. 1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 160 A dry inkstand. 1883 Cent. Mag. July 323/1 Wasting large sums of money on ‘dry holes’ [unproductive oil-wells]. b. spec. Of cows, sheep, etc.: Not yielding milk. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [adjective] > yielding milk > not dryc1450 yeld1670 sew1674 c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 37 Ȝif þou paye tythe for leyse to þi mylche-beestys, & noȝt of þi drye beestys. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xx^v The dammes wyll waxe dry and wayne their lambes themselfe. a1657 W. Burton Comm. Antoninus his Itinerary (1658) 87 At home their allowance..was no more than three Milch Cowes, and in case any of them became dry, the Parishoners supplyed them again. 1789 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 2 100 What we term dry sheep (viz. wethers, barren ewes, &c.). 1890 Daily News 8 Dec. 26/5 Twenty thousand breeding ewes..the remainder being what are called ‘dry sheep’. 5. Not under, in, or on water; not submerged (see also dry land n.); †inland (quot. 1599 at sense A. 11a); drawn or cast up on shore, as a boat or a fish. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > [adjective] > not submerged dryc1175 unsunka1300 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 14862 Swa þatt teȝȝ o þe driȝȝe grund. Wel sæȝhenn openn weȝȝe. 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 220 Came none of hem to londe drey. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 381 (MED) Drightin..bad a dri sted suld be. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. i. 4 That at is dry the erth shall be, The waters also I call the see. 1589 J. Eldred in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 231 Alleppo..is the greatest place of traffike for a dry towne that is in all these parts. 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. ii. iii. 93 The Head of his Ketch was dry, and at the Stern, there was above 4 Foot Water. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §195 (note) In dry work the difference of hardness..is less apparent. 1798 R. Dodd Lett. on Port of London 5 Further dry arches on each shore. 1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) II. 55 The tide leaves them dry. 6. Of bread (or toast): Without butter or the like. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > bread with spread or filling > [adjective] > without spread or filling dry1579 butterless1820 unbuttered1869 1579 W. Fulke Refut. Rastels Confut. in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 762 The words..wold not agree to drie bread. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. lxiv. 160 Making some thin dry toast. 1884 G. Allen Philistia III. 157 The meal..of dry bread with plain tea. 7. Solid, not liquid. ΚΠ 1722 C. Ogle in London Gaz. No. 6091/1 Neither the Wine nor dry Provisions were come. 1806 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 5) I. 27 By this are measured all dry wares, as, Corn, Seeds, Roots, Fruits, Salt, Coals, Sand, Oysters, &c. 8. Of wines, etc.: Free from sweetness and fruity flavour. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > qualities or characteristics of wine > [adjective] > not sweetened uncuted1615 dry1699 sec1863 brut1891 bone-dry1935 off-dry1950 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Dry-wine, a little rough upon, but very grateful to the Palate. 1706 G. Farquhar Recruiting Officer iii. i. 31 Many a dry Bottle have we crack'd hand to fist. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xli. 160 Where's the old dry wine? 1887 J. Ashby-Sterry Bolney Ferry in Lazy Minstrel (1892) 187 In Mrs. Williams' driest sherry He toasts the Lass of Bolney Ferry! 9. Metallurgy. Said of copper, tin, or lead, in the brittle and coarse-grained condition which they exhibit before refining, or when insufficiently deoxidated in refining. ΚΠ 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 918 When the operation of refining begins, the copper is dry or brittle..Its grain is coarse, open, and somewhat crystalline. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 919 Copper, in the dry state, has a strong action upon iron. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 129 Dry copper. See Under-poled copper. 10. transferred. Of or relating to dry substances or commodities; dry measure, measure of capacity for non-liquids. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > dry measure dry measure1688 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 337/2 A Pint..is the least of dry measures. 1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 703 The loss in the dry weight connected with the exhalation of carbon dioxide. 1887 Whitaker's Almanack 363 In dry or corn measure, eight bushels..make a quarter. 1891 Daily News 9 Nov. 3/6 In both wet and dry departments separate rooms are set apart for all deadly drugs. 11. Not associated or connected with liquid. a. Not accompanied or associated with drink; originally in U.S. Political slang, said of places which favour the prohibition of the liquor traffic. Also, of a person who favours prohibition; hence quasi-adv. in phrases to go or vote dry. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > [adjective] > qualities of meals substantial1340 simplea1387 dry1483 of substance?c1500 large1528 hearty?1550 abstemious1604 scrambling1607 running1618 lusty1672 sit-down1789 well-served1796 à la carte1816 slap-up1823 quaresimal1828 scratch1851 square1868 scrambly1900 set1914 handout1915 all-you-can-eat1940 spready1960 carbo-load1986 the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [adjective] > total abstinence > prohibition dry1887 bone-dry1905 alcohol-free1913 Volstead1920 1483 Cath. Angl. 108/2 A Dry feste, xerofagia. 1579 W. Fulke Refut. Rastels Confut. in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 778 The Papistes make a drie communion, when they robbe the people of the cuppe. 1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth iv. f. 13 Priuiledge to drinke..at the drye or prohibited times. 1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. A5 A Dry Dinner..without all drinke, except Tobacco (which also is but Dry Drinke). 1667 M. Poole Dialogue between Popish Priest & Protestant (1735) 198 It was not a dry Feast..they had drink with it. 1871 Scribner's Monthly 1 63 Dry or wet, Mr. Dort? Indifferent, eh? Adolph, a hock-glass. 1887 Courier-Jrnl. 7 Feb. 1/7 Athens, in which the State university is located,..is a dry town. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. liv. 350 A local option system, under which each county decides whether it will be ‘wet’ or ‘dry’ (e.g. permit or forbid the sale of intoxicants). 1888 Detroit Evening Jrnl. 20 Feb. (Farmer) If a county has voted on local option, and has gone dry. 1892 Daily News 7 Apr. 3/6 Dividing the receipts at the music-halls..as they are named in the trade ‘Wet Money’ and ‘Dry Money’ [i.e. money paid for refreshments, and for admission]. 1904 N.Y. Evening Post 3 Oct. 6 If every town and city in Vermont should vote ‘dry’ at the next election. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 20 May 12/1 A map of the United States, with prohibition States white, licence States black, and States partly ‘dry’ and partly ‘wet’ under local option indicated by shading. 1916 Literary Digest 1 Jan. 4/2 About as much ‘dry’ territory ‘going wet’ as there was of ‘wet’ territory ‘going dry’. 1944 W. R. Scott Revolt on Mount Sinai xxii. 179 Many members who long had voted dry accepted the election result as a mandate from the people. 1971 Scotsman 20 May 20/8 If the people of Kirkintilloch could be consulted on the issue of whether they should remain ‘dry’ or ‘wet’ it was difficult to see whether they should not also be consulted on the question of whether they should enter the Common Market. b. Of diseases, etc.: Not marked by a discharge of matter, phlegm, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > other characteristics hoteOE redeOE foulOE elvishc1386 dryc1400 whitec1450 Naples1507 shaking1528 cold1569 exquisite1583 unpure1583 waterish1583 wandering1585 legitimate1615 sulphureous1625 tetrous1637 cagastrical1662 medical1676 ambulatory1684 ebullient1684 frantic1709 animated1721 progressive1736 cagastric1753 vegetative1803 left-handed1804 specific1804 subacute1811 animate1816 gregarious1822 vernal1822 ambilateral1824 subchronic1831 regressive1845 nummular1866 postoperative1872 ambulant1873 non-surgical1888 progredient1891 spodogenous1897 spodogenic19.. non-invasive1932 early-onset1951 adult-onset1957 non-specific1964 c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 57 Þe drie discrasie þou schalt knowe bi þe..litil quytture. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xii. 61 Good for the drie cowghe. 1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica (ed. 2) 195 Occasion'd by the Dry-Gripes of that Countrey. 1811 R. Hooper Quincy's Lexicon-medicum (new ed.) This is called..from its victims, the plumbers' and the painters' colic; from its symptoms, the dry belly-ache, the nervous and spasmodic colic. 1834 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 83 The expression dry catarrh involves a contradiction if we look to etymology..I shall employ it..to designate those inflammations of the bronchi which are attended with little or no expectoration. c. Not accompanied with tears. ΚΠ 1619 W. Whately Gods Husb. (1622) ii. 49 The Lord will not reiect dry sorrow, if he see it hearty and true. 1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe v. 71 Dry mourning will decays more deadly bring..Give sorrow vent, and let the sluces go. 1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance xxv. 257 Dry sobs they seemed to be. †d. Not accompanied with bloodshed: see also A. 11f. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1618 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. 75 Thus are both sides busied in this drie warre. 1660 T. Fuller Mixt Contempl. i. xxxix. 63 If we should be blessed with a dry Peace, without one drop of Blood therein. e. Said of processes or apparatus in which no liquid is used. ΚΠ 1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 395 In the Dry way, it may be essayed when pulverized. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 386 Iron..precipitates nickel from its acid solutions, and in the dry way takes from it the sulphur which it contains. c1865 H. Letheby in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 127/2 The first dry-meter was patented by Mr. Malam in 1820. 1883 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women (ed. 2) xxii. 233 I have often seen the knife used in the manner which..is called dry tapping. f. to die a dry death: i.e. without bloodshed, or (in Shakespeare) without drowning. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > manner of death > die in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > die naturally to die naturally1554 to die a dry death1594 to die in one's beda1739 1594 Mirrour Policie (1599) E iij Tyrants..goe neuer to Pluto with a drie death..without bloud and murder. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) i. i. 143 Destin'd to a drier death on shore. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. i. 64 I would faine dye a dry death. View more context for this quotation 1688 R. L'Estrange Brief Hist. Times III. 275 He dy'd rather a Dry Death, then a Bloudy. †12. Of a blow, or a beating: that does not draw blood (as a blow given with a stick or the fist, which merely causes a bruise); by some apparently used more vaguely, = Hard, stiff, severe. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > [adjective] > that does not draw blood dry1530 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 306/2 Blo, blewe and grene coloured, as ones body is after a drie stroke. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. i. x. sig. F.vij^v/2 A Iewe..couered with woundes and swelling drye blowes. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vii. xliv. 877 Giue him many a drie bob. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) ii. ii. 63. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 38. ⁋3 Many a dry Blow was strenuously laid on by each Side. 1711 W. King et al. Vindic. Sacheverell 44 The Fellow..had an honest dry drubbing. a1774 O. Goldsmith tr. P. Scarron Comic Romance (1775) I. xiii. 104 Having got nothing but dry blows and empty pockets. II. Figurative senses. 13. Feeling or showing no emotion, impassive; destitute of tender feeling; wanting in sympathy or cordiality; stiff, hard, cold. In early use, chiefly: Wanting spiritual emotion or unction. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > [adjective] worldlyOE dryc1175 fleshlyc1175 of the world?c1225 secularc1290 timely1340 of hencec1384 uttermore1395 worldisha1400 profane1474 humanc1475 mundanec1475 mundial1499 carnal?1510 seculary1520 unghostly1526 worldly-minded1528 sensual1529 earthly-minded1535 civil1536 subcelestial1561 worldly-witted1563 secular-minded1597 ghostlessa1603 lay1609 mundal1614 non-ecclesiastical1630 unspiritual1643 wilderness1651 worldly-handed1657 outward1674 timesome1674 apsychical1678 secularized1683 hylastic1684 choical1708 Sadducee1746 gay1798 unspiritualized1816 secularizing1825 unreligious1832 secularistic1862 apneumatic1864 Sadduceeic1875 this-worldly1883 this world1889 the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > emotionally detached queamishc1430 squeamish1561 dry1637 unconcerned1660 inconcerned1688 aloof1872 stocky1876 detached1913 clinical1928 the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > cold or lacking warm feeling winter-coldOE coldc1175 cheald1340 umbrous1483 key-colda1535 frosty1548 frostbitten1564 icy1567 wintry1579 cold-hearteda1616 unwarmeda1625 dry1637 cool1641 frigidal1651 frigid1658 thieveless1725 cool-hearted1748 wintry1748 chill1751 cold as charity1795 freezing1813 ice-cold1815 chilly1841 impersonal1846 pincé1858 ice-cool1891 touch-me-not-ish1895 marmorean1902 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 9883 Hæþenn follkess herrte. Iss..driȝȝe. & all wiþþutenn dæw. c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 27 Weetynge of hevenly deew to her drie hertis. c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi ii. viii. 48 Hov dry & hov harde þou art wiþoute ihesu! 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. EEii Drie, dull, or vndeuout in spirituall thynges. 1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 440 He..is grown miskenning and dry to His poor friends. 1761–2 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) V. lxxi. 321 Noted for an address so cold, dry, and distant, that it was very difficult..to soften or familiarize it. 1825 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Wks. (1859) I. 110 Lord North's answers were dry, unyielding..and betrayed an absolute indifference to the occurrence of a rupture. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxvi. 102 ‘Well,’ said St. Clare, in a tone of dry endurance. 14. Said of a jest or sarcasm uttered in a matter-of-fact tone and without show of pleasantry, or of humour that has the air of being unconscious or unintentional; also of a person given to such humour; caustically witty; in early use, ironical. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > caustic or ironic ridicule > [adjective] satiric1509 satirien1509 satiricala1529 ironical1536 dry1542 Lucianical1561 satirial1579 sardonian1586 ironized1596 sarcasmical1602 ironic1614 Sardinian?1615 sardoin1633 sardonic1638 sarcastical1641 sardan1649 sarcasmous1663 sarcastic1695 witty1700 sarcasmatical1716 caustic1771 nippit1808 Lucianic1820 sardonican1837 quippy1859 sardonical1859 quipsome1881 sarky1912 Lucianesque1969 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > sarcasm > [adjective] dry1542 sarcasmical1602 sarcastical1641 sarcasmous1663 sarcastic1695 sarcasmatical1716 nippy1859 sarky1912 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes Pref. v Of the subtile knackes, of the drye mockes..whiche Socrates dooeth there vse. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie* iii. xviii. 157 The figure Ironia, which we call the drye mock. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. iii. 74, i. v. 40. 1709 E. Ward Rambling Fuddle-caps 7 Keep your Flirts to your self, and your merry dry Bobs. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 114 [He] was..something of an humorist and dry joker. 1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. iii. 129 Froissart, with a touch of dry humour, explains that their allies had no objection to speed the exit of the poorer knights. †15. a. Yielding no fruit, result, or satisfaction; barren, sterile, unfruitful, jejune. (Cf. A. 4) Obsolete (or merged in sense A. 17). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > unproductiveness > [adjective] unbearingc825 deafc897 westyOE wastumlessc975 wilderna1050 drya1340 gelda1350 barren1377 unfructuousa1382 poora1387 ungreenc1400 infecundc1420 farrow1494 fruitlessa1513 unfruitful1531 sterile1552 hungry1577 penurious1594 unfertile1596 infertile1598 howling1611 ungenitureda1616 arid1656 infecundous1661 ungendering1706 yeld1721 unproductive1725 infructuose1727 ungenerative1733 fallow1791 nihili-parturient1812 dowf1824 wastec1825 non-productive1830 unreproductive1836 infructuous1860 unvintaged1869 increative1877 ablastemic1881 submarginal1895 a1340 R. Rolle Psalter vi. 6 I sall make it to bere froit, þat bifore was drye fra goed werkes. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Siiii^v He shall go drye, and for a surety haue no perfection. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. B One..whose dryer braine Is tost with troubled sighes and fancies weake. 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xviii. 171 That the fire burns by heat, is an empty dry return to the question, and leaves us still ignorant. †b. Of persons: Miserly, stingy; reserved, uncommunicative. (Cf. A. 4) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [adjective] gnedec900 gripplea1000 fastOE narrow-hearteda1200 narrow?c1225 straitc1290 chinchc1300 nithinga1325 scarcec1330 clama1340 hard1340 scantc1366 sparingc1386 niggardc1400 chinchy?1406 retentivea1450 niggardousa1492 niggish1519 unliberal1533 pinching1548 dry1552 nigh1555 niggardly1560 churlish1566 squeamish1566 niggardish1567 niggard-like1567 holding1569 spare1577 handfast1578 envious1580 close-handed1585 hard-handed1587 curmudgeonly1590 parsimonious?1591 costive1594 hidebound1598 penny-pinching1600 penurious1600 strait-handed1600 club-fisted1601 dry-fisted1604 fast-handed1605 fast-fingered1607 close-fisted1608 near1611 scanting1613 carkingc1620 illiberal1623 clutch-fisteda1634 hideboundeda1640 clutch-fista1643 clunch-fisted1644 unbounteous1645 hard-fisted1646 purse-bound1652 close1654 stingy1659 tenacious1676 scanty1692 sneaking1696 gripe-handed1698 narrow-souled1699 niggardling1704 snippy1727 unindulgent1742 shabby1766 neargoinga1774 cheesemongering1781 split-farthing1787 save-all1788 picked1790 iron-fisted1794 unhandsome1800 scaly1803 nearbegoing1805 tight1805 nippit1808 nipcheese1819 cumin-splitting1822 partan-handed1823 scrimping1823 scrumptious1823 scrimpy1825 meanly1827 skinny1833 pinchfisted1837 mean1840 tight-fisted1843 screwy1844 stinty1849 cheeseparing1857 skinflinty1886 mouly1904 mingy1911 cheapskate1912 picey1937 tight-assed1961 chintzy1964 tightwad1976 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [adjective] > disposed to secrecy, secretive dernOE covert1340 secrec1385 secretc1440 mum1532 closec1540 whist1577 as silent as the grave1613 privatea1625 dark1650 uncommunicating1650 dry1681 uncommunicative1691 unexpansive1847 secretive1853 tight-lipped1876 cagey1909 zip-lipped1943 closet1948 coy1961 tight1977 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Drye fellow whom some call a pelt or pinchbecke. 1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore ii. i. 100 Of all filthy dry-fisted knights. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Acquests He is but a drie fellow, there is nought to be got by dealing with him. 1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 509 Dry or reserved. 1689 Earl of Clarendon Diary 10 Jan. in State Lett. (1763) II. 140 He thanked me..and said, he had not seen so particular an account of those affairs before: but he was very dry as to all things else. 16. Lacking adornment or embellishment, or some addition; meagre, plain, bare; matter-of-fact. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > [adjective] > matter-of-fact dry1626 matter of fact1787 unfabled1809 fanciless1868 1626 W. Laud Wks. (1849) II. 370 And if they say..they believe them in the Church's sense; yet that dry shift will not serve. a1637 B. Jonson Timber 1773 in Wks. (1640) III As wee should take care, that our style in writing, be neither dry, nor empty. 1647 H. More Philos. Poems To Rdr. 7/1 Contemplations concerning the dry essence of the Deity are very consuming and unsatisfactory. 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. ii. 6 With a pension and dry title only. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe Pref. sig. **2 Enforced thereunto, by Dry Mathematicall Reason. 1713 Lady M. W. Montagu Let.* July (1965) I. 189 I would willingly return..something more..than dry thanks impertinently express'd. 1803 Ld. Eldon in Vesey's Rep. Cases High Court Chancery (1844) VIII. 435 It is the case of a dry trust, all the debts and legacies being long paid. 1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species ii. 44 A long catalogue of dry facts. 17. Deficient in interest; unattractive, distasteful, insipid. (figurative from food that wants succulency.) ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > bland or insipid colourlessc1425 unsavouryc1449 wearish?1533 wersha1599 tasteless1603 tame1604 juiceless1620 water gruela1627 dry1632 soulless1632 frigid1643 vapid1656 insipida1684 fade1715 heartless1780 vapid1785 achromatic1799 sauceless1817 albuminous1858 antiseptic1891 flat-footed1899 unatmospheric1913 defanged1920 anodyne1933 spiceless1942 tea-party1961 nothingburger1965 1632 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 4) i. ii. i. ii. 39 Our subtile Schoolemen..are weake, drye, obscure. 1661 S. Pepys Diary 12 May (1970) II. 98 Methought it was a poor dry sermon. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 315. ¶3 These Points are dry in themselves to the generality of Readers. a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) ii. v. 131 If these speculations appear too dry, they may be rendered more pleasing, if the reader would peruse the two pieces criticised. 1790 J. Q. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 567 Mankind have an aversion to the study of the science of government. Is it because the subject is dry? 1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 75 Annals..valuable to the antiquarian, but dry and profitless to others. 18. a. Art. Characterized by stiff and formal outlines; lacking in softness or mellowness; frigidly precise. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [adjective] > other qualities or styles plangent1666 dry1695 sticky1753 flat1755 spotty1798 touchy1809 definitive1815 edgy1825 painty1827 scratchy1827 unideal1838 tinglish1855 generalist1858 tinny1877 Christmas-cardy1883 tinty1883 surfacy1887 chocolate box1892 chocolate-boxy1894 Christmas card1895 juicy1897 candy box1898 pastose1901 busy1909 pompier1914 posterish1914 painterly1932 X-ray1940 illusional1942 all-over1948 figurative1960 hard-edge1961 1695 J. Dryden tr. R. de Piles in tr. C. A. Du Fresnoy De Arte Graphica 213 His manner was Gothique and very dry. 1695 J. Dryden tr. R. de Piles in tr. C. A. Du Fresnoy De Arte Graphica 216 [His] manner was drier and harder than any of Raphael's School. a1792 J. Reynolds Journey Flanders & Holland in Wks. (1797) II. 22 The fall of the Angels, by F. Floris, 1554; which has some good parts, but without masses, and dry. 1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art (new ed.) §205. 195 The workmanship, however, is still drier than in the Antonines. 1876 H. N. Humphreys Coin Coll. Man. xxiv. 353 A dry and hard manner of execution. b. Of acoustics: lacking in warmth or resonance. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [adjective] > of acoustics dead1907 dry1961 1961 Listener 2 Nov. 715/2 When an orchestra broadcasts in a television studio, where the acoustic is likelier to be drier. 1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio ii. 53 Some modern music is now written for drier acoustics than those which sound best for Beethoven. 19. Of money, rent, or fees: Paid in hard cash, in actual coin. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > [adjective] > ready money or cash readya1400 dry1574 running1662 ready money1671 ready-moneyed1757 tractile1892 1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 253 Such as shall play at cardes, or dice (for drie money). 1664 S. Pepys Diary 30 Sept. (1971) V. 284 I am fain to preserve my vowe by paying 20s. dry money into the poor's box. 1694 Provid. God 64 That what could not be done by dry Money, might be by Debauchery. 1713 J. Addison in Guardian 2 July 2/2 To Zelinda's Woman..fifteen Guineas in dry Mony. 1725 G. Berkeley Let. 12 June in Wks. (1871) IV. 112 It hath cost me 130 pounds dry fees, besides expedition-money to men in office. 1885 Standard 3 Apr. 2/6 He had played in Defendant's house..but not for ‘dry money’. 20. dry light n. (an expression derived from a doubtful or corrupt passage in Heraclitus; ed. Bywater 30): ‘Light’ untinged by any infusion of personal predilection, prejudice, or fancy. ΚΠ 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 158 Heraclitus saith well, in one of his Ænigmaes; Dry Light is euer the best. 1625 F. Bacon Apophth. 268 Heraclitus the Obscure sayd: The drie Light was the best Soule. Meaning, when the Faculties Intellectual are in vigour, not wet, nor, as it were, blouded by the Affections. 1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 149 The web that looks so familiar and ordinary in the dry light of every day. B. adv. In a dry manner, dryly. (See Compounds 2.) ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adverb] > with emotional detachment dry1513 squeamishly1571 queamishly1594 dryly1622 unconcernedly1636 aloofly1891 1513 Act 5 Hen. VIII c. 4. §1 If the same Worsted, so dry calandred, taketh any Wet. 1710–11 J. Swift Lett. (1767) III. 97 I talk dry and cross to him. 1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. ii. xviii. 299 Where the land is very dry situated. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. ix. 143 He's rowing dry, your honour—only making bilave. Phrases to run dry. a. To cease to flow with liquid. Also: to cause or allow all liquid to flow or be driven out of (something). ΚΠ 1586 G. Whetstone Enemie to Vnthryftinesse f. 7 Mightie Ryuers wyll soone run drie, when their noorishyng Spryngs are turned another way. 1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. i. 12 Hee..would..with the Well drop vie, That he before his eyes would first runne drie. 1682 J. Banks Unhappy Favourite v. 59 Like Fishes on the Ouse When streams run dry, and their own Element Forsakes 'em. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 218 The stream of living waters..will never run dry. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XV. 161/2 It will discharge the water faster than TO supplies it; it will therefore run it dry. 1863 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 24 ii. 301 Most cows run dry in about ten months. 1891 Blackwood's Mag. 149 782/1 The only thing to be done is to..run the pool dry and clean it. 1969 M. H. Wolf Vermont is always with You 10 Re-seating the rubber thing in the back of the toilet to keep it from running the well dry. 2006 Daily Tel. 16 May 2/5 With the reservoirs running dry, the water authorities were struggling for ideas. b. figurative. With reference to the exhaustion or coming to an end of a supply of something. ΚΠ 1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1664) i. clxxiii. 337 I am run dry of loving..that greatest and most admirable one! 1662 R. Baxter Saint or Brute 69 Whiles he feeds our Love, our Joyful praises will never be run dry. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. cxviii. 230 I intend, when run dry on other topics, to take a serious survey of the City-wall. 1827 Examiner 152/2 The Waverley novels ran dry at last. 1879 J. Lubbock Addresses, Polit. & Educ. ii. 28 In 1797 the bullion in the Bank of England had almost run dry. 1892 Argosy Apr. 287 The old gentleman had run his subject dry. 1939 Fortune Oct. 62/1 The Unemployment Insurance Institute was still heavily in debt and municipal relief funds had long since run dry. 1987 World Mag. Oct. 53/1 Either she [sc. the Golden Hind] disintegrated or was broken up when public curiosity ran dry. 2002 Time Out N.Y. 5 Sept. 103/2 Penning their own [songs] when the supply of Western tunes ran dry during the Communist regime. Compounds C1. Parasynthetic. See also dry-fisted adj. at dry-fist n. Derivatives, dry-footed adj. a. dry-boned adj. ΚΠ 1618 R. Brathwait Descr. Death in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign James I (1848) 271 Chop-falne, crest-sunke, drie-bon'd anatomie. dry-fancied adj. ΚΠ 1682 H. More Annot. Lux Orientalis 50 in Two Choice & Useful Treat. Any dry-fancied Metaphysicians. dry-handed adj. dry-leaved adj. dry-lipped adj. dry-mouthed adj. ΚΠ a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 241 As in a drie-mouth'd feaver. dry-skinned adj. dry-tongued adj. ΚΠ 1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud xviii. ii, in Maud & Other Poems 56 The dry-tongued laurels' pattering talk. b. dry-eyed adj. having dry eyes, tearless, not weeping. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > not manifesting emotion > without tears tearless1603 dry-eyed1667 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 495 Sight so deform what heart of Rock could long Drie-ey'd behold? View more context for this quotation 1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 Sept. 6/2 The face..has the drawn expression of dry-eyed grief. c. dry-looking adj. C2. Adverbial, in combination with verbs and their derivatives. a. In a dry way; without the use of liquid; without drawing blood: (a) dry-washing n. ΚΠ 1901 R. Kipling Kim viii, in McClure's Mag. May 62/7 The halts for prayers (Mahbub was very religious in dry-washings and bellowings when time did not press). (b) † dry-pulled adj. Obsolete ΚΠ 1495 Act 11 Henry VII c. 19 Preamble in Statutes of Realm (1816) II. 582 Pillows made of..scalded feders and drie pulled feders to gedre. (c) dry-feed v. ΚΠ 1907 Daily Chron. 8 July 4/4 New systems of dry-feeding young and adult stock. dry-rub v. dry-scratch v. dry-scrub v. ΚΠ 1864 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene 267 On intermediate days the rooms are dry-scrubbed. dry-wash v. ΚΠ 1962 ‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed xiv. 93 He began worriedly dry-washing his hands. (d) dry-blowing adv. present participle. ΚΠ 1728 J. Thomson Spring 7 If..a cutting Gale..dry-blowing breathe Untimely Frost. b. † dry-bang v. Obsolete = dry-beat v. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person to-beatc893 threshOE bustc1225 to lay on or upon?c1225 berrya1250 to-bunea1250 touchc1330 arrayc1380 byfrapc1380 boxc1390 swinga1400 forbeatc1420 peal?a1425 routa1425 noddlea1450 forslinger1481 wipe1523 trima1529 baste1533 waulk1533 slip1535 peppera1550 bethwack1555 kembc1566 to beat (a person) black and blue1568 beswinge1568 paik1568 trounce1568 canvass1573 swaddle?1577 bebaste1582 besoop1589 bumfeage1589 dry-beat1589 feague1589 lamback1589 clapperclaw1590 thrash1593 belam1595 lam1595 beswaddle1598 bumfeagle1598 belabour1600 tew1600 flesh-baste1611 dust1612 feeze1612 mill1612 verberate1614 bethumpa1616 rebuke1619 bemaul1620 tabor1624 maula1627 batterfang1630 dry-baste1630 lambaste1637 thunder-thump1637 cullis1639 dry-banga1640 nuddle1640 sauce1651 feak1652 cotton1654 fustigate1656 brush1665 squab1668 raddle1677 to tan (a person's) hide1679 slam1691 bebump1694 to give (a person) his load1694 fag1699 towel1705 to kick a person's butt1741 fum1790 devel1807 bray1808 to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813 mug1818 to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821 welt1823 hidea1825 slate1825 targe1825 wallop1825 pounce1827 to lay into1838 flake1841 muzzle1843 paste1846 looder1850 frail1851 snake1859 fettle1863 to do over1866 jacket1875 to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877 to take apart1880 splatter1881 to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884 to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886 to do up1887 to —— (the) hell out of1887 to beat — bells out of a person1890 soak1892 to punch out1893 stoush1893 to work over1903 to beat up1907 to punch up1907 cream1929 shellac1930 to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931 duff1943 clobber1944 to fill in1948 to bash up1954 to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976 to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983 beast1990 becurry- fan- a1640 J. Day & H. Chettle Blind-beggar (1659) sig. I1^v And I did not dry bang ye all one after another, I'de eat no meat but Mustard. †dry-baste v. Obsolete = dry-beat v. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person to-beatc893 threshOE bustc1225 to lay on or upon?c1225 berrya1250 to-bunea1250 touchc1330 arrayc1380 byfrapc1380 boxc1390 swinga1400 forbeatc1420 peal?a1425 routa1425 noddlea1450 forslinger1481 wipe1523 trima1529 baste1533 waulk1533 slip1535 peppera1550 bethwack1555 kembc1566 to beat (a person) black and blue1568 beswinge1568 paik1568 trounce1568 canvass1573 swaddle?1577 bebaste1582 besoop1589 bumfeage1589 dry-beat1589 feague1589 lamback1589 clapperclaw1590 thrash1593 belam1595 lam1595 beswaddle1598 bumfeagle1598 belabour1600 tew1600 flesh-baste1611 dust1612 feeze1612 mill1612 verberate1614 bethumpa1616 rebuke1619 bemaul1620 tabor1624 maula1627 batterfang1630 dry-baste1630 lambaste1637 thunder-thump1637 cullis1639 dry-banga1640 nuddle1640 sauce1651 feak1652 cotton1654 fustigate1656 brush1665 squab1668 raddle1677 to tan (a person's) hide1679 slam1691 bebump1694 to give (a person) his load1694 fag1699 towel1705 to kick a person's butt1741 fum1790 devel1807 bray1808 to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813 mug1818 to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821 welt1823 hidea1825 slate1825 targe1825 wallop1825 pounce1827 to lay into1838 flake1841 muzzle1843 paste1846 looder1850 frail1851 snake1859 fettle1863 to do over1866 jacket1875 to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877 to take apart1880 splatter1881 to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884 to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886 to do up1887 to —— (the) hell out of1887 to beat — bells out of a person1890 soak1892 to punch out1893 stoush1893 to work over1903 to beat up1907 to punch up1907 cream1929 shellac1930 to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931 duff1943 clobber1944 to fill in1948 to bash up1954 to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976 to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983 beast1990 becurry- fan- 1630 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime (new ed.) vi. 58 They..dry-basted brother Hill and left vs. dry-cupping n. see cupping n. 1. ΚΠ 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 618 The use of dry-cupping between the shoulders. dry-cure v. to cure meat, etc. by salting and drying, as distinguished from pickling. dry-dyeing n. (see quot. ). ΚΠ 1904 Westm. Gaz. 8 Sept. 4/2 Dry-dyeing is simply dyeing with aniline dyes soluble in spirit. dry-grind v. to grind articles of cutlery without the use of water. dry-grinder n. a workman employed in dry-grinding. ΚΠ 1824 Ann. Reg. 259 His apparatus for the relief of dry-grinders. dry-pointing n. e.g. of needles and table-forks. ΚΠ 1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. xviii. 149 Dry-pointing, which is also executed with great rapidity. dry-salt v. = dry-cure vb. ΚΠ 1885 Harper's Mag. Jan. 278/1 Goat-skins in their raw state come to the market ‘dry salted’. dry-shave v. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle defraud1362 deceivec1380 plucka1500 lurch1530 defeata1538 souse1545 lick1548 wipe1549 fraud1563 use1564 cozen1573 nick1576 verse1591 rooka1595 trim1600 skelder1602 firk1604 dry-shave1620 fiddle1630 nose1637 foista1640 doa1642 sharka1650 chouse1654 burn1655 bilk1672 under-enter1692 sharp1699 stick1699 finger1709 roguea1714 fling1749 swindle1773 jink1777 queer1778 to do over1781 jump1789 mace1790 chisel1808 slang1812 bucket1819 to clean out1819 give it1819 to put in the hole1819 ramp1819 sting1819 victimize1839 financier1840 gum1840 snakea1861 to take down1865 verneuk1871 bunco1875 rush1875 gyp1879 salt1882 daddle1883 work1884 to have (one) on toast1886 slip1890 to do (a person) in the eye1891 sugar1892 flay1893 to give (someone) the rinky-dink1895 con1896 pad1897 screw1900 short-change1903 to do in1906 window dress1913 ream1914 twist1914 clean1915 rim1918 tweedle1925 hype1926 clip1927 take1927 gazump1928 yentz1930 promote1931 to take (someone) to the cleaners1932 to carve up1933 chizz1948 stiff1950 scam1963 to rip off1969 to stitch up1970 skunk1971 to steal (someone) blind1974 diddle- 1620 Thomas's Dict. (ed. 12) Attondere aliquem auro, to ridde him of his gold, to drie shaue him. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Dry-shave, to chowse, gull or cheat notoriously. 1778 in Harper's Mag. (1883) 546/2 [He] shall be dry shaved..and have his head dressed on the parade. c. So as to be or become dry, to dryness: (a) dry-suck v. ΚΠ 1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore iii. ii. 41 Thou dry-suckst him. dry-weep v. (b) dry-burnt adj. ΚΠ 1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed xiii. 240 The grass was dry-burnt in the meadows. dry-drunken adj. dry-roasted adj. ΚΠ 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cxxxi. 116 Except it be verie drie rosted. 1671 T. Shadwell Humorists 111 Loins of Mutton dry-roasted. dry-withering adj. C3. Special attributive combinations: See also dry dock n., etc. dry area n. a covered channel round the external walls of a building to prevent damp. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > wall of building > [noun] > other parts of wall quoin1532 ground-table1640 breast1655 patand1656 raddling1673 breast1674 offset1721 breastwork1779 base1790 breast beam1828 dry area1833 chimney-breast1842 wall-head1898 1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. v. 1255 Around all the walls of the foundation against which ground will lie a dry area should be formed, in order to prevent dampness within the building. 1882 Cent. Mag. Mar. 791/1 These methods of keeping walls dry are excellent when dry areas or air-drains cannot be conveniently constructed. 1906 P. N. Hasluck Sanitary Constr. in Building iii. 56 If the damp springs from the surrounding earth, a dry area..or external cavity should be constructed, or the wall should be asphalted, and an open-joint drain laid. 2008 N. Davies & E. Jokiniemi Dict. Archit. & Building Constr. 32/2 Basement area, dry area, area; in town houses, an unroofed narrow external space below street level to provide light, air, and often access to rooms in a basement, and to separate external basement walls from the surrounding ground to prevent entry of water. dry bath n. slang a search of a prisoner when he has been stripped naked. ΚΠ 1933 ‘G. Ingram’ ‘Stir’ v. 93 The warder..said he'd give him a dry bath just to see. 1965 New Statesman 30 July 452/3 Two or three times a week the Heavy Mob rushed into our cells and gave us a ‘dry bath’, which adequately describes the search of a man who is standing ‘starkers’ in the middle of his cell. dry battery n. a battery of dry cells. ΚΠ 1885 Electrician 10 Jan. 174/1 (heading) Conversion of liquid into dry batteries. dry-beard n. an old man with a dry or withered beard. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > old person > old man > [noun] old maneOE bevara1275 beauperec1300 vieillard1475 Nestor?c1510 old gentleman1526 haga1529 velyarda1529 old fellow?1555 old sire1557 granfer1564 vecchioc1570 ageman1571 grave-porer1582 grandsire1595 huddle-duddle1599 elder1600 pantaloon1602 cuffc1616 crone1630 old boya1637 codger?1738 dry-beard1749 eld1796 patriarch1819 oubaas1824 old chap1840 pap1844 pop1844 tad1877 old baas1882 senex1898 finger1904 AK1911 alte kacker1911 poppa stoppa1944 madala1960 Ntate1975 1749 D. Garrick Lethe i. (1798) I. 11 Well said, old dry~beard. 1797 T. Park Sonnets 66 By Pythagrean dry~beards sentenc'd. dry biscuit n. Obsolete (as a modifier) denoting something that is displeasing or of poor quality, as in dry biscuit jest, dry biscuit rogue. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > a jest or joke > other types of jest or joke dry biscuit jest1600 kniff-knaff1683 private joke1789 jokelet1847 inside joke1849 wheeze1864 one-liner1904 lavatory joke1931 lavatory humour1935 sight gag1957 cruellie1959 in-joke1964 elephant joke1966 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor Induct. sig. Biii^v [He] breakes a drie bisket jest, Which..He steeps in his owne laughter. a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Little French Lawyer ii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Iv/2 Ye dry bisket rogue. dry-blower n. Australian (a) a gold-miner; (b) used as a term of opprobrium; (c) (see quot. 1964). ΚΠ 1895 Queenslander 7 Dec. 1069 Every other man you meet in Coolgardie..is either a lord, a colonel, a captain, a doctor, an expert, an agent, a sharebroker, or a sharper; all the rest are dudes, drunkards, and dryblowers, professional liars, and loafers. 1935 Bulletin (Sydney) 20 Mar. 10/4 In the early days of the Westralian goldfields it gained me many friends amongst the isolated dryblowers to whom I passed on my weekly copy. 1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling xix. 196 There we met Dryblower Tom Mitchell, awaiting the return of his camel-team, to go prospecting. 1964 Penguin Bk. Austral. Ballads 208 A ‘dry~blower’ is a crude device, made of hessian and wooden saplings, and used in arid areas for separating gold from the ore. dry-blowing n. Australian (see quot. 1894). ΚΠ 1894 Argus (Melbourne) 28 Mar. 5/5 in E. E. Morris Austral Eng. (1898) When water is not available, as unfortunately is the case at Coolgardie, ‘dry blowing’ is resorted to. This is done by placing the pounded stuff [sc. alluvial ore] in one dish, and pouring it slowly at a certain height into the other. If there is any wind blowing it will carry away the powdered stuff; if there is no wind the breath will have to be used. dry-bob n. (see Bob n.⁷); hence dry-bob vb.; (see also bob n.³ 1, 2). ΚΠ 1865 W. L. Collins Etoniana xi. 172 Of course a ‘dry-bob’ boats occasionally, and a ‘wet-bob’ plays cricket. 1881 W. E. Norris Matrimony I. 73 You never used to dry-bob at Eton, did you? dry-bone n. U.S. a miner's name for the silicate and other ores of zinc (Dana 1868). ΚΠ 1868 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 5) 692 Dry-bone. dry-bones n. a contemptuous or familiar term for a thin or withered person, who has little flesh on his bones. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [noun] > thin shape > person having staffc1405 notomy1487 rakea1529 crag1542 scrag1542 sneakbill1546 starveling1546 slim1548 ghost1590 bald-rib1598 bare-bone1598 bow-case1599 atomy1600 sneaksbill1602 thin-gut1602 anatomya1616 sharg1623 skeleton1630 raw-bone1635 living skeleton1650 strammel1706 scarecrow1711 rickle of bones1729 shargar1754 squeeze-crab1785 rack of bones1804 thread-paper1824 bag of bones1838 dry-bones1845 skinnymalink1870 hairpin1879 slim jim1889 skinny1907 underweight1910 asthenic1925 ectomorph1940 skinny-malinky1957 matchstick1959 1845 G. P. R. James Arrah Neil III. xiv Ha, old dry-bones, have I caught thee at length? dry brush n. (see quots.); frequently attributive. ΚΠ 1911 H. P. Bowie On Laws Japanese Painting iv. 66 Dry twig or old firewood line..is generally used in the robes of old men and produced by what is called the dry brush; that is, a brush with very little water mixed with the sumi. 1958 M. L. Wolf Dict. Painting 88 Dry brush, in Chinese art, a painting technique in which the ink is used sparingly with a minimum of moisture in the brush; known natively as kan pi. 1959 J. Halas & R. Manvell Technique Film Animation xix. 220 If the area common to the drawings is..less than two-thirds, then dry brush effects can be used to join the two objects. dry-bulb thermometer n. one of the two thermometers of which a dry- and wet-bulb hygrometer consists. ΚΠ 1882 H. Watts Dict. Chem. III. 227 Table I. To obtain the dew-point, multiply the difference of reading of the thermometers by the factor opposite the dry-bulb reading, and subtract the product from the dry-bulb reading. dry camp n. U.S. a camp or halt where there is no water. ΚΠ 1869 J. R. Browne Adventures Apache Country 128 We made a dry camp till morning. 1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xxviii. 615 We..find a pool with water enough for our horses, and to fill our jugs, as we must make a ‘dry camp’ to-night. 1887 Outing 10 4/2 We halted on an open place..and went into dry camp. 1920 J. M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas I. 312 The round up boss..called for two or three men..to make what is called a ‘dry camp’. dry-castor n. ‘a kind of beaver, called also parchment-beaver’ (Webster 1864). dry cell n. a voltaic cell in which the electrolyte is contained in an absorbent material or is in the form of a paste, thus preventing spilling of the contents. ΚΠ 1893 P. Benjamin Voltaic Cell xv. 309 Dry cells are best adapted to circumstances where current is intermittently needed and then only for a short time. 1936 Discovery Sept. 285/2 Causing a current from a battery of dry cells to pass through the fine wire. dry-cooper n. a cooper who makes casks, etc. for dry goods. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of containers or receptacles > [noun] > maker of casks or cooper > types of white cooper1688 dry-cooper1715 under-cooper1745 butt cooper1813 tight cooper1889 herring-cooper1892 1715 London Gaz. No. 5308/3 Mr. Henry Taylor, Dry Cooper. dry diggings n. (a) (originally U.S.) gold-diggings on high land or away from a river or stream; (b) in South Africa, diamond-diggings at which the diamondiferous material is disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere. ΚΠ 1848 Californian 14 Aug. 2/3 In one part of the mine called the ‘dry diggins’, no other implements are necessary than an ordinary sheath knife, to pick the gold from the rocks. 1853 Househ. Words 8 321/1 The dry diggings at least furnish equal proof of energy and industry. 1858 Brit. Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 11 Dec. 1/2 These are in fact a species of dry diggings. 1858 W. Howitt Land, Labour & Gold (ed. 2) I. xi. 126 Next came the dry diggings; these were far enough from the stream to be free of its drainage. 1862 E. Hodder Mem. N.Z. Life 222 There are two principal kinds of diggings: river diggings..and dry diggings, in the conglomerate and gravel accumulated on the slope of the mountains. 1873 F. Boyle To Cape for Diamonds 123 Four ‘dry diggings’:—New Rush..Old De Beers, Dutoitspan, and Bultfontein. 1889 K. Munroe Golden Days of ’49 x. 111 The dry diggings were those of hill-sides, or in gulches containing no steady supply of water. 1899 G. Lacy Pict. of Trav. 173 The ‘dry diggings’ are thirty miles to the south-east of Pniel. They are so called because the gems are not found in river-wash, but in dry tufa, which has apparently never been in contact with water. 1910 J. Hart Vigilante Girl xxiv. 326 It had been a ‘dry diggings’, and the skeleton line of a long flume ran thread-like along the mountains. 1920 J. M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas 43 This being Dry Diggings, meaning no gold to be found,..we all scattered. dry-dike n. = dry-stone dyke at dike n.¹ 6b. dry-diked adj. ΚΠ 1907 Macmillan's Mag. Jan. 196 The platform..was some fifty feet above the valley, and the stones on its face, which was almost perpendicular, appeared to be irregularly dry-dyked. dry-diker n. ΚΠ 1905 Spectator 11 Feb. 211/1 In the Boer War the ‘dry dikers’ of a certain East Yorkshire regiment used to be asked to volunteer to build ‘sangars’. † dry-ditch v. Obsolete (transitive) to work at (anything) without result, like one digging a ditch into which no water flows. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail [verb (intransitive)] > expend effort in vain to lose or spill one's whilec1175 to speak to the windc1330 tinec1330 to beat the windc1375 lose?a1513 to boil, roast, or wash a stonea1529 to lose (one's) oil1548 to plough the sand (also sands)a1565 to wash an ass's head (or ears)1581 to wash an Ethiop, a blackamoor (white)1581 to wash a wall of loam, a brick or tilea1600 to milk the bull (also he-goat, ram)1616 to bark against (or at) the moona1641 dead horse1640 to cast stones against the wind1657 dry-ditcha1670 baffle1860 to go, run or rush (a)round in circles1933 a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 98 His adversaries did dry-ditch their matters and digg'd in vain. dry end n. that end of a paper-making or drying-machine from which the material emerges dry. ΚΠ 1894 J. Dunbar Notes Manuf. Wood Pulp & Papers 39 The temperature of the cylinders was too high at the dry end of the machine to produce the desired result. 1927 T. Woodhouse Artificial Silk: Manuf. & Uses iii. 26 The delivery-end or ‘dry-end’ of a pulp drying machine. 1962 F. T. Day Introd. to Paper iv. 36 The beginning of the paper making machine is described as the ‘wet end’, whilst the other end of the machine, which consists of drying cylinders and paper finishing calenders, is called the ‘dry end’. dry farm n. and v. ΚΠ 1919 E. Hough Sagebrusher xxxiii A few scattered dry farms, edging up close to the river in the valley far below. 1952 D. F. Putnam Canad. Regions 376/2 The extra size of the dry farms. 1971 L. Davidson Smith's Gazelle iii. 50 The sheep could graze among the table rock and the wheat could be dry-farmed on most of the rest. dry farmer n. ΚΠ 1912 R. A. Wason Friar Tuck iii. 34 Next came the dry farmer. 1919 H. L. Wilson Ma Pettengill v. 155 The forlorn shack of a dry-farmer. dry farming n. chiefly North American farming without a good supply of water. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > types of farming high culture1771 scientific farming1789 metaying1792 high farming1815 petite culture1848 sharefarming1857 urban agriculture1860 bush-farming1866 mixed farming1872 dry farming1878 co-aration1883 co-ploughing1883 smallholding1889 power-farming1913 dry-land farming1914 third(s)-and-fourth(s)1940 link system1950 green revolution1968 1878 J. W. Powell Rep. Lands Arid Region 78 A company of Danes..have obtained a meagre subsistence by dry farming. 1906 Nature 26 July 304/2 The scientific aspect of what has been designated in the United States as ‘dry-farming’ consists in utilising to the best advantage all the water that falls in semi-arid regions. 1908 Sci. Amer. 22 Aug. 120 ‘Dry farming’ consists in so preparing the soil in semi-arid regions that it will catch what little annual rainfall there is, and store it within reach of the roots of the plants to be grown. 1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling xiii. 113 An Experimental Farm was started to carry out investigations with regard to cereals under dry-farming conditions. 1961 L. D. Stamp Gloss. Geogr. Terms 165/2 Dry farming implies a specialized technological treatment of land to overcome the short supply of water. dry-fly adj. and v. Angling used to describe a method of fishing in which an artificial fly floats lightly on the water; an artificial fly used in this type of fishing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [adjective] > angling > using fly dry-fly1846 fly-fishing1858 1846 G. P. R. Pulman Vade-mecum of Fly-fishing (ed. 2) vii. 84 If the dry fly be widely different in these respects, the fish will be surprised. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 June 4/2 The beautiful and delicate art of fishing with the dry fly. 1893 National Observer 5 Aug. 300/2 You must creep up-stream as warily as if you were dry-flying it on the Hampshire chalk. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 7 Apr. 3/1 Dry Fly fishing is..using a dry and floating fly instead of a wet and sunk one. 1913 Q. Rev. July 66 Dry-fly fishing for sea trout is still in its infancy. dry fuck n. U.S. coarse slang (a) a simulated act of sexual intercourse, without penetration and usually without removing the clothes; (b) an unsatisfactory act of intercourse, esp. one which does not result in ejaculation or orgasm; so as v., to engage in intercourse of this kind. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > other types of sexual activity or intercourse > [noun] > other specific vera copula1850 knee-trembler1896 gang-banging1949 gang-bang1950 gang-up1951 wham, bam, thank you ma'am1956 tribadism1962 bareback1963 Princeton1965 safe sex1968 onion1969 dry fuck1971 dry hump1972 barebacking1991 scissoring2003 1970 E. Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1113/1 Dry, adj., is, in Australia, used with the low nn. of coïtion for rape and homosexual intercourse: since ca. 1950.] 1971 E. E. Landy Underground Dict. 71 Dry fuck v., go through the motions of sexual intercourse without entering the vagina, usually with clothes on. Performed by junior-high-school and high-school students. n. The simulated act of sexual intercourse with clothes on. 1975 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (new ed.) Suppl. 695/1 Dry fuck [taboo], 1 To go through the motions of sexual intercourse without penetration, usu. without removing the clothes. Junior high-school and high-school student use. 2 Unsatisfying sexual intercourse, as when done hurriedly or without emotional involvement, esp. when it does not result in ejaculation or orgasm. 1979 Maledicta 3 ii. 231 A gay..may or may not know the following words and expressions:..dry fuck (without penetration, or without ky or other lubricant such as vaseline or Crisco). dry hopping n. (see quot. 1956). ΚΠ 1890 Daily News 14 Oct. 2/3 English hops suitable for fine ale brewing or dry hopping must prove to be in limited supply. 1956 New Biol. 21 14 Dry hopping is the practice of adding hops to the barrel of finished beer before it leaves the brewery. It gives added aroma and to some degree additional biological stability. dry house n. a building in which miners change their clothing (also called drying-house, or dry). ΚΠ 1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 130/1 Drawing of Dry House where miners change their clothes. dry ice n. originally U.S. solid carbon dioxide. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [noun] > frozen condition > solid carbon dioxide dry ice1925 the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > carbon > [noun] > compounds > solid carbon dioxide dry ice1925 1925 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 28 Apr. 850/2 Dryice Corporation of America..Dry Ice, Carbon Dioxide (C O₂) in Solidified Forms, Mixtures, and Compounds. 1930 Engineering 17 Oct. 504/2 The oxidation of carbon-monoxide from electro-metallurgical and calcium-carbide furnaces to carbon dioxide for producing ‘dry ice’, or solid carbon-dioxide. 1938 Archit. Rev. 84 119 Dry-ice refrigeration unit accommodating approximately 180 half-pint cartons of milk. 1968 Times 17 Oct. 18/6 The traps were baited with solid carbon dioxide, or dry ice, which evaporated at the rate of about three litres a minute. dry joint n. a soldered joint with faulty electrical continuity. ΚΠ 1933 H. J. B. Chapple Television ii. 38 Unless [soldering is] thoroughly understood..a set fails to function owing to weak or dry joints. 1940 Amateur Radio Handbk. (ed. 2) iii. 42/2 The best and safest flux is pure resin, although it..needs greater care if dry joints are to be avoided. 1960 P.O. Telecommunications Jrnl. 12 92/2 As ‘dry’ or imperfectly soldered joints may not show up until after the equipment has been in use for some time..any operator employed on soldering should have had adequate practice. dry lodging n. lodging without board. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [noun] > without board dry lodging1825 1825 Hist. Little Pat in Houlston Tracts I. xi. 3 She..lived in one of those cellars which have ‘dry lodgings’ written over the door. 1829 W. Scott Old Mortality Introd., in Waverley Novels IX. 233 To drye Lodginge for seven weeks, £0 4 1. dry-march n. a march or boundary-line not formed by a river or water. ΚΠ 1820 W. Scott Monastery I. vi. 194 The last who went south passed the dry-march at the Riding-burn with an escort of thirty spears. dry mass n. an abbreviated mass without either consecration or communion, said when the celebration of a full mass is not permitted. [After post-classical Latin missa sicca (12th cent. in a British source).] ΚΠ 1957 Oxf. Dict. Christian Church Dry Mass, an abbreviated form of Mass... It survives among the Carthusians, who say a Dry Mass of Our Lady in their cells after Prime. 1972 J. G. Davies Dict. Liturgy & Worship at Ante-communion The dry mass of the Middle Ages..consisted..at the most of the whole rite of the mass except the canon and the use and presence of the elements of their vessels. dry mounting n. a method of mounting photographs (see quot. 1958). ΚΠ 1903 Photogram 10 320/1 Wet or dry mounting. 1958 V. Drumm in M. L. Hall Newnes' Complete Amateur Photogr. xxxv. 329 The best method of mounting photographic prints is with the use of dry-mounting tissue in a hot press. The tissue is impregnated with shellac which melts at approximately 160 °F. dry multure n. see multure v. dry-needle n. = dry-point ΚΠ ?1790 J. Imison Curious & Misc. Articles (new ed.) 48 in School of Arts (ed. 2) The dry needle..is principally employed in the extreme light parts of water, sky, drapery, architecture, &c. dry norther n. U.S. a north wind not accompanied by rain. ΚΠ 1871–3 Texas Almanac 97 The people here in Texas divide these winter storms into ‘wet northers’ and ‘dry northers’. dry offset n. (see quots.). ΚΠ 1958 T. Landau Encycl. Librarianship 113/2 Dry offset, printing by letterpress to a rubber cylinder from which impressions are taken on to paper. 1967 R. R. Karch & E. J. Buber Graphic Arts Procedures: Offset Processes ii. 30 Dry Offset. A shallow-etched relief plate transfers the image to a rubber blanket on a cylinder. The press needs no moistening rollers. dry pack n. see pack n.¹ dry pile n. a voltaic pile in which no liquid is used, and which generates a feeble but very permanent current. ΚΠ 1890 R. M. Walmsley Wormell's Electr. in Service of Man 108 Dry piles—that is, batteries where no fluids were used—were first constructed by Behrens (1806). dry-pile adj. (also †dripile) with the pile dry. ΚΠ 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xx. cxxiv. 388 And loue will shoote you from his mightie bow, Weake is the shot that dripile falles in snow. dry-plate n. Photography a sheet of glass coated with collodion subsequently sensitized and dried, or, more usually, with an emulsion of gelatine (or collodion) containing a sensitive silver salt, and exposed to the action of light in a dry state. ΚΠ 1859 Photogr. News I. 296 Some difference of opinion exists as to the collodion best suited for dry plates. 1878 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. (1890) 91 In the development of dry plates..the image..is built up from the solid silver salt in the film itself. 1878 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. (1890) 91 The practical part of dry-plate processes. dry-plate clutch n. Mechanics a plate clutch which operates without lubrication. ΚΠ 1927 Observer 15 May 22 A..dry plate clutch. 1928 Motor World 9 Mar. 162/2 There is an enclosed dry plate clutch, a three-speed unit gear-box. dry pleurisy n. (formerly) pleurisy without expectoration; (now) pleurisy without effusion. dry-point n. Engraving (a) a sharp-pointed needle used for engraving without acid on a copper plate from which the etching-ground has been removed; (b) the process of engraving in this way, or an engraving so executed; hence dry-point vb. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > [noun] > engraving tools pouncer1552 graving tool1591 pounce1598 puncheon1659 burin1662 eschoppe1662 graver1662 needle1662 point1662 style1662 sculpter1680 scalper1688 small chisel1749 roulette1806 engraver1821 dry-point1837 scooper1837 stylet1853 tint-tool1869 diamond-point1874 spit-sticker1909 bull-sticker1933 1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 216 The drypoint, or needle, is principally employed for the lightest parts of the engraving on the copper plate. 1883 Athenæum 24 Feb. 256/1 The etchings and dry-points of Venetian views which Mr. Whistler is showing. 1920 M. Aurousseau in Geogr. Rev. 10 228 We have two special cases of arrangements governed by water supply—the extreme conditions giving rise to what we will term wet point villages and dry point villages. dry-point settlement n. ΚΠ 1946 L. D. Stamp Britain's Struct. & Scenery xv. 173 For a thousand years these scattered ‘dry-point’ settlements remained typical of the heart of what is now Greater London. dry-point village n. one which is not liable to flooding. ΚΠ 1920 M. Aurousseau in Geogr. Rev. 10 228 We have two special cases of arrangements governed by water supply—the extreme conditions giving rise to what we will term wet point villages and dry point villages. dry-puddling n. see puddling n.: † dry pump n. Obsolete a pump for pouring a stream of water over part of a person's body as a medical treatment without getting any other part wet; cf. pumping n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other medical equipment > [noun] > hydrotherapy equipment dry pump1632 pump1632 packing sheet1869 whirlpool1975 1632 E. Jorden Disc. Nat. Bathes (ed. 2) xvii. 135 Wee haue a Pump out of the hot Bath, which wee call the dry Pump, where one may sit in a chaire in his cloathes, & haue his head, or foot, or knee pumped. 1676 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 350 I went to the Bath for the recovery of my hearing... I received at the drie pump in the King's bath nine thousand two hundred and odd pumps on my head in about a fourtnight's time. 1806 Guide to Watering Places 27 Pumping in the King's and Queen's bath, 2d. each hundred strokes; at the dry pump, 4d. each hundred strokes. † dry pumping n. Obsolete the action of pouring a stream of water from a pump over part of a person's body so as not to get the rest of the body wet. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments using water > [noun] > treatment by bathing, sprinkling, or fomenting fomenta1398 fomentationa1400 embrocation1543 irrigation1617 pump-bathing1744 dry pumping1840 nebulization1968 perifusion1969 1840 Orig. Bath Guide 39 An apartment..for douching or dry pumping, i.e. pumping on any particular part of the body. † dry-rent n. a rent seck n. or barren rent, i.e. one reserved without clause of distress (obsolete). ΚΠ 1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana Introd. sig. B2 Worth a matter of four millions dry rents. dry shampoo n. (see quot. 1966). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing agents > [noun] > shampoo shampoo1838 dry shampoo1890 peroxide shampoo1966 1890 Hairdressers' Weekly Jrnl. 14 June 383/2 (advt.) Niagara Foam..an American dry shampoo..20/- per gallon. 1913 Queen 24 May (advt.) When you want your hair to look extra nice and bright..just treat it to a dry shampoo with..Hair Powder. 1928 Queen Feb. 271/2 Dry Shampoo. Carbonate of Potash 1 oz. Water 32 ozs. Saponine ½ oz. Industrial Spirit 32 oz. Perfume, as desired. 1966 J. Stevens Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing & Wigmaking 49/2 Dry shampoo. (1) A shampoo in powder form which is applied to the head as a powder, massaged in and then brushed out... (2) A shampoo composed of industrial methylated spirit or isopropyl alcohol and water with the addition of a foaming element such as saponin. dry shaver n. an electric or other razor for use without soap and water. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > implements used in styling the hair > [noun] > razor razorc1300 shaving-iron1352 shaving-knife14.. shaver1558 dry shaver1937 straight-edge razor1972 1937 Night & Day 1 July 4/2 (advt.) If you drive a car you'll shave with a Schick dry shaver. 1963 B.S.I. News Feb. 33 This revision will specify the requirements for mains-operated dry shavers. dry-shearer n. a workman whose business is to shear the nap of cloth. ΚΠ 1724 J. Chamberlayne in Philos. Trans. 1722–3 (Royal Soc.) 32 161 A kind of Tumor..as the Dry-sheerers, or those who dress Cloth, have upon their left Hands. dry-ski adj. designating a school, etc., for indoor training in skiing. ΚΠ 1954 Springfield (Mass.) Daily News 10 Nov. 22 The dry ski class..will begin tonight. 1957 Times 25 Nov. 11/4 Dry-ski schools which help muscles to become more flexible and teach beginners the basic movements. dry skid n. a skid of a motor vehicle on a dry surface. ΚΠ 1958 A. Hocking Epit. for Nurse xi. 197 Taking a gravelly sharp corner at an almost reckless speed she got into a dry skid. dry-skid v. (intransitive) . ΚΠ 1961 I. Fleming Thunderball ii. 23 The Bentley dry~skidded to a stop in the gravel. dry-skin n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1701 C. Wooley Two Years Jrnl. N.-Y. 45 If the Blubber be not fat and free, the Whale is call'd a Dry-Skin. dry spell n. a period of dry weather (see quot. 1920). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > dry weather or climate > [noun] > spell of absolute drought1881 dry spell1887 1887 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 23 Aug. 5 Everybody found smoking on the streets..during the dry spell was liable to be arrested. 1920 British Rainfall 1919 27 A Dry Spell is a period of fifteen or more consecutive days no one of which is a ‘Wet Day’. 1961 Amer. Speech 36 267 A sharp distinction is observed in Colorado between the relatively long drouth and the relatively short dry spell. dry spinning n. a method of spinning natural or artificial fibres (see quots. 1904, 1957¹); hence dry-spin vb. trans., dry-spun adj. ΚΠ 1864 A. J. Warden Linen Trade v. 697 Wet spinning differs chiefly from..dry spinning in having the spinning frame furnished with a receptacle for holding water. 1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 177/2 Dry spinning, flax may be spun wet or dry, the latter giving a softer and more spongy yarn. 1921 T. Woodhouse tr. J. Foltzer Artificial Silk iv. 23 Spinning with the aid of water,..has been replaced by a system of dry spinning. 1957 Textile Terms & Defs. (Textile Inst.) (ed. 3) 94 Dry spinning is the process in which a solution of the polymer is extruded into a heated chamber to remove the solvent, leaving the solid filament. 1957 Textile Terms & Defs. (Textile Inst.) (ed. 3) 39 Dry-spun. 1963 A. J. Hall Student's Handbk. Textile Sci. ii. 75 Solutions which can be dry spun—that is, into warm air to evaporate off the solvent and leave solidified filaments behind. dry-stone adj. applied to a ‘dike’ or stone wall built without mortar, cf. dike n.¹ 6b. [Compare post-classical Latin sicco lapide (ablative) with dry stone (13th cent. in a British source).] Π c1702 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) ii. iii. 83 You scarce see a tree and No hedges all over y^e Country, only dry stone walls. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality i. (note) , in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 13 Called, by the vulgar, a dry-stane dyke. 1878 C. R. Conder Tent Wk. Palestine 312 Siloam—a most disappointing pool with dry-stone walls and a little muddy water. dry-stove n. a stove for plants, with dry heat. dry suit n. a type of diving suit, usually made of sheet rubber, which uses the principle of air-insulation to protect the diver from cold, and under which warm clothing can be worn. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > one-piece garment > [noun] playsuit1609 romper1902 romper suit1904 diving-suit1908 bunting1914 teddy bear1917 leotard1920 Sidcot1921 sleeper1921 romper1922 pressure suit1923 boiler suit1928 maillot1928 mono1937 footy1938 all-in-one1939 siren suit1939 goonskin1943 anti-g suit1945 G-suit1945 jump suit1948 immersion suit1951 moon suit1953 poopy suit1953 dry suit1955 wetsuit1955 sleepsuit1958 Babygro1959 tank suit1959 cat-suit1960 penguin suit1961 unitard1961 bodysuit1963 shortall1966 steamer1982 1955 R. Carrier & B. Carrier Dive iv. 118 Rubber suits have been designed to protect the diver from the effects of cold water. There are two basic types..the ‘wet suit’ and the ‘dry suit’. 1955 R. Carrier & B. Carrier Dive iv. 120 The next best thing is..a sealed sheet-rubber dry suit worn with one or more suits of long underwear or wool sweaters underneath. 1971 B. Graham Spy Trap xii. 84 Crabb had bought a new black Pirelli dry suit. dry valley n. a valley in which the original stream or river has disappeared. ΚΠ 1898 J. Geikie Earth Sculpture xiii. 217 Not less characteristic features of the karst-lands are the so-called blind-valleys and dry-valleys. Through the former a river flows to disappear into a tunnel at the closed or blind end. 1927 C. C. Fagg in Proc. & Trans. Croydon Nat. Hist. Soc. 9 94 The development of the dry valleys of the Chalk belongs to the more recent phases of the Denudation of the Weald. 1927 C. C. Fagg in Proc. & Trans. Croydon Nat. Hist. Soc. 9 96 (caption) The Dry Valley Systems. 1961 L. D. Stamp Gloss. Geogr. Terms 166/1 The origin of the dry valleys of the Chalk. dry wall n. a wall built without mortar. ΚΠ 1778 G. White Let. 3 July in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 236 Lathræa squammaria, tooth-wort..on the dry wall opposite Grange-yard. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Dry-wall, a wall without lime. 1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. (1877) iii. 48 A dry wall of the same height and stability. dry-wall v. (transitive and intransitive) to build a dry wall (around); dry-waller, dry-walling. ΚΠ 1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 450/1 The materials..may be built up alone (dry walling) or with the aid of mortar or hydraulic cement. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Dry-waller. 1914 G. Jekyll Colour Schemes for Flower Garden (ed. 3) ix. 86 An earth bank four and a half feet high, dry-walled on both sides. 1922 Daily Mail 10 Nov. 8/5 A dry-waller has to be born, not made. So old William told me when I found him dry-walling. 1928 H. Peake & H. J. Fleure Steppe & Sown 116 A certain amount of dry walling was used. dry wash n. North American the dry bed of an intermittent stream. ΚΠ 1872 J. G. Bourke Diary 25 Nov. (2003) I. 29 There is a drywash on this road. 1926 C. E. Mulford Cassidy's Protégé ix. 110 A bridge spanned a dry-wash, dry most of the year. 1962 Bad Lands of Red Deer River (Board of Trade, Alberta) 25 The pieces..are lying scattered at the base of the cliffs or in dry washes where they have been carried by run-off. Draft additions 1993 Also by extension, abstaining from alcoholic drink, esp. after becoming addicted; having stopped taking an addictive drug. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drug addiction or craving > [adjective] > abstaining from drink or drugs after addiction dry1941 the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [adjective] > total abstinence > after addiction dry1941 1941 J. Smiley Hash House Lingo 23 Dry, sober. 1968 T. Leary Politics of Ecstasy iv. 79 Several independent studies in Canada have found that 50 to 60 percent of alcoholics given one session with LSD stay ‘dry’ for follow-up periods from 6 months to 1 year. 1979 R. Jaffe Class Reunion i. 122 For him to make her mother stay dry he first had to admit she was a lush. Draft additions 1993 Of a sound: harsh, discordant, rasping. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [adjective] hardOE rudea1375 stern1390 rougha1400 discordanta1425 stoutc1440 hoarse1513 harsh1530 raughtish1567 rugged1567 dissonant1573 harshy1582 jarry1582 immelodious1601 cragged1605 raggeda1616 unmusicala1616 absonousa1620 unharmoniousa1634 inharmonical1683 unharmonic1694 inharmonious1715 craggy1774 pebbly1793 reedy1795 iron1807 dry1819 inharmonic1828 asperated1835 sawing1851 shrewd1876 coarse1879 callithumpian1886 dissonantal1946 ear-bending1946 sandpaper1953 1819 W. Wordsworth Peter Bell i. 36 Once more the Ass did lengthen out More ruefully an endless shout, The long dry see-saw of his horrible bray! 1932 W. Faulkner Light in August i. 5 A series of dry sluggish reports carrying for a half mile across the hot still pinewiney silence of the August afternoon. 1987 P. Lively Moon Tiger xi. 134 The dry squeak of chalk on school blackboards. Draft additions March 2017 Chiefly Singapore English. Of noodles: not served in a soup, but in a sauce or with dry ingredients. ΚΠ 1972 New Nation (Singapore) 18 Nov. 7/2 Known as ‘sa hor fun’ or ‘sa hor hoon’, these riceflour noodles are served either ‘wet’ (in a soup) or ‘dry’ (that is, stirred through with other ingredients and served on a plate). 1992 Free China Rev. Apr. 53/2 When the munchies hit, there is always a place nearby selling small bowls of meat sauce noodles, dry or in soup. 1999 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 25 July (Sunday Plus section) 10 By day, he sells prawn noodles (the soup and dry sort). 2013 Business Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 30 Mar. Customers can choose to have their noodles in the soup or opt for a dry version. Draft additions 1993 dry sink n. North American History a counter-height furniture cabinet with an inset sink or basin which is not connected to a water supply. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > cupboard or cabinet > [noun] > kitchen > with sink not connected to water supply dry sink1946 1946 Hobbies Oct. 74/3 (advt.) Vermont pine dry sink to be used as a cellaret or fernery. 1959 L. Gross Housewives' Guide to Antiques vii. 71 Dry sinks, made as late as the 1890's..are usually of pine, the sink part sometimes found lined with tin. 1987 N.Y. Times 8 Mar. xxiii. 14/6 Mr. Frajola's auctions are not usually filled with the folks who could be found hunting for a bargain umbrella stand or dry sink. Draft additions 1993 dry slope n. an artificial ski slope used esp. for training or out-of-season practice. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skiing > [noun] > ski slope or run piste1917 nursery slope1924 ski run1924 ski slope1934 schuss1937 fall line1938 bunny slope1954 run1956 black diamond1969 traverse1969 slope1972 ski ramp1973 dry slope1974 motorway1979 off-piste1986 1963 Ski-ing (‘Know the Game’ Ser.) (ed. 2) 3 Some schools recommend a course which starts with dry ski lessons and ends with instruction on a plastic slope.] 1974 H. Evans et al. We learned to Ski i. 44/2 Beginners who have been on the dry slope may go here. 1987 Observer 11 Oct. 56/8 Dry slopes are much better than you might expect, and dry slope skiing is becoming a sport in itself for those unable to get away to the mountains. Draft additions 1993 dry wall n. North American (now usually drywall) = plasterboard n.; frequently attributive. ΚΠ 1950 Better Homes & Gardens Nov. 42/1 ‘Dry-wall’ construction is a comparatively new term. It is a way to finish interior walls with dry materials. 1965 Pop. Mech. Apr. 162/1 The most common use of drywall—also called gypsum wallboard and plasterboard—is in finishing a new room. 1980 Family Handyman Sept. 49/3 Cut out a small opening in the center of the outline with a drywall saw. Draft additions December 2002 dry-fried adj. (of food) (originally) fried in just enough oil to prevent food sticking to the pan; (now usually) fried without adding oil or fat to the pan. ΚΠ 1941 N.Y. Times 5 Jan. x. 10/2 They usually offer some specialty, ‘chicken-in-the-rough’, which is dry-fried chicken to be eaten with the fingers. 1998 N. Lawson How to Eat (1999) 197 When I want to eat properly but in a hurry, I lunch on grilled trout, dry-fried herring, or mackerel fillets with pickled ginger and soy sauce. Draft additions December 2002 dry-fry v. transitive (originally) to fry (food) in just enough oil to prevent food sticking to the pan; (now usually) to fry (food) without adding oil or fat to the pan. ΚΠ 1979 N.Y. Times 19 Dec. c6/3 Place the marinade ingredients in a dry wok. Turn heat to medium and dry fry the spices for about five minutes. 1982 Life (Nexis) June 67 Heat the wok, add the peppercorns and dry-fry about 30 seconds until they swell and become fragrant. 1998 BBC Good Food Sept. 64/2 Sprinkle the breadcrumbs and cinnamon into the pan and dry fry, stirring occasionally, until toasted and crisp. [see 'Implied in' only applies when the target is a quotation]. Draft additions December 2002 dry-frying n. (originally) frying in just enough oil to prevent food sticking to the pan; (now usually) frying food without adding oil or fat to the pan. ΚΠ 1930 Cookery & Catering Man. (Brit. Red Cross Soc.) (ed. 2) iii. 36 Dry frying, or cooking in just enough fat to cover the bottom of the frying pan. 1952 N.Y. Times 17 Feb. 65 (advt.) Vital facts you must know about easy reducing!.. New method of ‘dry frying’. Eat as much without adding calories. 1982 Life (Nexis) June 67 The stuff of Sichuan kitchens is familiar to Western cooks, and the techniques are the basic and easily mastered Chinese methods of stir-frying, dry-frying, steaming and poaching. 1999 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 18 Apr. 5 I smoked the pork..instead of using the usual dry-frying or grilling method. Draft additions June 2007 dry garden n. a garden designed to require little or no watering, typically containing ornamental rocks and stones or plants which thrive in dry conditions. ΚΠ 1959 S. Sitwell Bridge of Brocade Sash v. 100 We saw another small garden attributed to Sô-ami, in two portions, a moss garden and a dry garden. 1999 BBC Gardeners' World Apr. 148/3 The formal areas of this Surrey garden include extensive herbaceous borders, a modern-rose garden, a range of alpines and a dry garden. Draft additions December 2002 dry hump n. coarse slang (originally U.S.) = dry fuck n. at Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > other types of sexual activity or intercourse > [noun] > other specific vera copula1850 knee-trembler1896 gang-banging1949 gang-bang1950 gang-up1951 wham, bam, thank you ma'am1956 tribadism1962 bareback1963 Princeton1965 safe sex1968 onion1969 dry fuck1971 dry hump1972 barebacking1991 scissoring2003 1972 National Lampoon Apr. 33/1 Oh, I figure to get dry humps about half the time. You gotta have space, though, like a sofa or on the beach. 1988 Playboy Aug. 43 Men can have sex on a dance floor with their clothes on grinding up against each other. The old dry hump as it were. 1997 OC Weekly (Nexis) 30 May 28 I'm doing the dry-hump cha-cha against her thigh just seconds, however, before she has me figured out. Draft additions December 2002 dry-hump v. coarse slang (originally U.S.) transitive to simulate sexual intercourse with; also occasionally intransitive; cf. dry hump n. at Additions. ΚΠ 1964 J. Pearl Stockade v. 47 Larkin..flipped open the mattress. The gray..cover was stained... Think of all..the horny bastards who have dry-humped it. 1972 National Lampoon Apr. 33/1 You gotta have space, though, like a sofa or on the beach. You can't dry hump good in the car. 1991 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Oct. 275/2 I heard him referred to as the Presser, because he'd push girls into the corner and then press up against them. He would, to be crude about it, dry-hump people. 2001 Premiere June 96/1 Be sure to check out the Gag Reel, wherein Affleck moons the camera and dry-humps Paltrow. Draft additions December 2002 dry-humping n. ΚΠ 1970 D. Wakefield All Way 143 It rated right along with dry-humping. 1991 Quarterly (U.S.) Summer 104 We call this dry humping when we do it in school! Draft additions January 2009 dry vermouth n. unsweetened vermouth, typically having a fairly bitter taste; cf. French vermouth n. at French adj. and n. Compounds 1b, sweet vermouth n. at sweet adj. and adv. Additions. ΚΠ 1912 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 5 Feb. (advt.) Dollins dry Vermouth. 2005 Toro Oct. 41/2 Or there's always the Knickerbocker, another near-cousin of the original martini. Four parts gin are joined by two parts dry vermouth and half a teaspoon of the sweet variety. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). dryv. Brit. /drʌɪ/, U.S. /draɪ/ Forms: Past tense and participle dried /draɪd/. Forms: Old English drýgean, Middle English driȝe(n, Middle English (Orm.) driȝȝenn, Middle English druye(n, Middle English druiȝe, drue, dreiȝe, dri, Middle English–1500s drey, drye, Middle English–1600s drie, Middle English– dry (inflexions dries, drieth, drying). past tense Old English drygde, drigde, Middle English dride, Middle English dreide, dreyede, druyde, Middle English dryed(e, Middle English– dried. past participle Old English gedriged, Middle English ( Orm.) driȝȝedd, Middle English dreyed, Middle English–1700s dryed, 1500s–1600s dride, 1600s dryde, 1600s–1700s dry'd, 1500s– dried; (β. 1600s drien). Etymology: Old English drýg(e)an , drígean , < drýge dry adj. 1. a. transitive. To make dry (e.g. by wiping, rubbing, exposure to heat or air, draining, etc.); to rid, deprive, or exhaust of moisture; to desiccate. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > become dry [verb (intransitive)] dryc888 desiccate1679 the world > matter > liquid > dryness > dry [verb (transitive)] dryc888 adroweOE drow1393 exsiccate1540 siccate1570 desiccate1575 unsteep1598 siccicate1639 exsicce1657 c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxix. §13 Se hata sumor drygþ and gearwaþ sæd and bleda. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) xi. 2 And drigde [Hatton G. dreide] his fet mid hyre loccon. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8625 Forr þatt te land wass driȝȝedd all & scorrcnedd þurrh þe druhhþe. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 14011 Sco..þan þam dries wit hir hare. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) iii. 19 Thei dryen it at the Sonne. c1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. (1898) 76 Þes þynges dryes and feblys þe body. 1549–62 T. Sternhold & J. Hopkins Whole Bk. Psalms cxix. 313 As a skin bottel in the smoke, So am I partcht and dride. 1598 Floure & Leafe in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 367^v/2 To dry their clothes y^t were wringing weat. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §56 After it be dryed a little before the Fire. 1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 68 in Sylva They keep..their..sweet smell, better dry'd in the Sun, then Shade. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 25/1 Wood thus dry'd..acquires a Hardness..by which means they think it is better dried. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) v. 36 Mrs. Chick was yet drying her eyes. b. To remove or abstract (water or moisture); to wipe away, cause to evaporate, or drain off. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > make into gas or produce gas from [verb (transitive)] > make into vapour > evaporate dryc1350 to dry upc1385 consumea1398 vapour1530 exhale1589 exhalate1599 waste1639 evaporate1646 avolate1673 c1350 Barlam & Josaphat (Bodl.) 867 Whan þu myȝt heuin areche wit þin hond, and dreyȝe þe water of þe se. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 113 Faste by the brook þat he dreyede [v.r. druyde]. 1551 R. Crowley Pleasure & Payne sig. Cviii Christe doeth drye All teares from the oppressedis eye. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World vii. 197 The Water..was now dried away. 1798 Anti-Jacobin 9 July 283/2 Not She, who dries The Orphan's tears. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Audley Court in Poems (new ed.) II. 44 Till all his juice is dried, and all his joints Are full of chalk. c. absol. To dry crockery, cutlery, etc., after washing up. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing table utensils > wash table utensils [verb (intransitive)] > dry table utensils to dry up1932 dry1935 wipe1943 1935 A. J. Cronin Stars look Down i. viii. 59 ‘Shall I dry for you, mother?’ She shook her head, dried the dishes herself. 1949 D. Smith I capture Castle (U.K. ed.) x. 166 Neil and Simon helped with the washing up... Ivy washed and we all dried. 1967 ‘G. North’ Sgt. Cluff & Day of Reckoning vi. 51 She piled dishes into his hands to be carried to the kitchen: ‘It'll save time if you dry for me.’ 2. a. intransitive. To become dry; to lose or be exhausted of moisture; to cease to yield a supply of liquid. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > become dry [verb (intransitive)] > cease to yield liquid dryc1200 c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 155 Sum of þe sed ful uppe þe ston and dride þere. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 267 His armes driede and wax al drye. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 310 He is welle þat neuer sal dri. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 8768 Þe tre..for elde bigon to driȝe. c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 363 The see grauel is lattest for to drye. 1538 D. Lindsay Supplic. against Syde Taillis 75 In Somer quhen the streittis dryis. 1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 21 The Morter doth not Cement..when it dries hastily. 1705 London Gaz. No. 4114/4 It [a sandbank] drys at Low-Water. 1870 C. F. Gordon Cumming in Good Words 138/2 Masses of apricots spread out to dry in the sun. b. Of water or moisture: To disappear or pass away by evaporation, absorption, or draining. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > become dry [verb (intransitive)] > dry up adroweOE dry?c1325 to dry up1535 crine?1553 exsiccate1686 ?c1325 Old Age ii, in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) II. 210 Moch me anueþ þat mi drivil druiþ. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 197 If þou waisschist hise lymes in watir, anoon riȝt it wole drie yn. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. i. 139 Great flouds haue flowne..and great Seas haue dried . View more context for this quotation 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 109 The unctuous part will dry away. c. to dry straight: to come right eventually. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > in the end to dry straight1897 1897 W. J. Locke Derelicts xxii I shall miss you terribly—at first—but it will all dry straight, Yvonne. 1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas xxvi. 278 Cheer up, Joseph. Things will dry straight one of these days. d. Suddenly to forget or fail to speak one's words in a play or other performance. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)] > stop speaking to make up one's mouthc1175 to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175 blina1300 dumba1300 leavea1375 to put a sock in ita1529 hush1548 silence1551 stay1551 stow1567 stop1579 to save one's breath (also wind)1605 tace1697 stubble it!1699 shut your trap!1796 to keep a calm (or quiet) sough1808 stubble your whids!1830 to shut up1840 to dry up1853 pawl1867 subside1872 to pipe down1876 to shut (one's) head, face1876 shurrup1893 to shut off1896 clam1916 dry1934 shtum1958 to oyster up1973 1934 N.Y. Herald Tribune 2 Sept. vii. 10/2 Thumbing the pages for certain theatrical terms, we find..fluff (but not dry or dry up). 1941 ‘C. Brahms’ & ‘S. J. Simon’ No Bed for Bacon xxi. 253 I'm sorry I dried at the beginning. 1953 L. A. G. Strong Hill of Howth i. 8 A colleague of mine once dried in the middle of a scene. 1955 J. Coates Linda xv. 170 She dried in the middle of a speech. Beryl prompted her and she went on. 1967 M. Shulman Kill 3 iii. viii. 147 ‘O.K., Allan,’ said the director into his microphone. ‘If she fluffs badly or dries we'll go straight to Three.’ e. to dry down: of paint, to become dry. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > become dry [verb (intransitive)] > of paint to dry down1958 1958 Listener 28 Aug. 323/1 Some complain that the jelly paints..dry down with a poor gloss. 1959 Listener 9 Apr. 651/1 The oil-based paints..may dry down with a patchy finish on standard hardboard. †3. intransitive. To be thirsty, to thirst. Obsolete.In Middle English also impersonal me drieth; cf. hunger n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > be thirsty [verb (intransitive)] thirstc950 dry1362 sitiate1599 to have a cobweb in the throat1844 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. i. 25 And drink whon þou druiȝest [B. dryest: v.rr. þe driȝeþ, ȝow drieth]. a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) ccvii. 6 For thurste to deth I drye. 4. a. transitive. To render (a cow, etc.) ‘dry’; to exhaust or stop the secretion of milk in. b. intransitive. To become ‘dry’, cease to give milk. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > dairy farm [verb (transitive)] > stop yielding dry1780 1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (1887) 116 All have cows, and when they dry them, buy others. 1797 J. Downing Treat. Disorders Horned Cattle 87 The following medicine may be given to any cow you wish to dry. 1806 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. III. 76 The thicker milk of those which were beginning to dry. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) ‘It's time to dry the cow, shoe gives lile milk’. 1894 Times 6 Mar. 4/2 A few farmers report that they cannot dry off their cows. c. dry out. intransitive. Of a drug-addict: to undergo a course of treatment designed to break dependence on the drug; of an alcoholic: to undergo a similar course of systematic disintoxication. Also transitive, to cure (a drug addict or an alcoholic) in this way. So dry-out n. drying-out n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > recover or be healed [verb (intransitive)] > from addiction dry out1967 the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment of specific diseases or conditions > treat specific diseases or conditions [verb (transitive)] > cure of addiction to drugs or alcohol cold turkey1960 dry out1967 detox1972 1967 Guardian 8 Feb. 7/3 They are not only making firmer contact with the addicts..but also giving some of those they have ‘dried out’ a purpose. 1967 Guardian 8 Feb. 7/5 The painful process of the detoxification ward, the ‘dry-out’. 1969 New Scientist 13 Mar. 554/1 The removal of alcohol from the blood by using the artificial kidney may be found to be the safest (and cheapest) way of ‘drying out’ alcoholics in a state of acute intoxication. 1969 Maclean's Aug. 55/2 Too often a drinker ‘dries out’ and his case is closed. 1970 R. Haughton Love v. 143 A boy or girl would be pulled through a ‘bad patch’ (and the ‘patches’ of a drug-addict ‘drying out’ are very bad indeed). 1970 E. Tidyman Shaft (1971) iii. 41 By eight, she had undergone..the drying-out procedure in private institutions. 1971 Daily Tel. 2 Mar. 2 Drunks arrested by police in future may have to spend a compulsory three days in a ‘drying out’ centre. 5. to dry up. transitive. Thesaurus » a. To suck, draw, or take up (liquid or moisture) entirely, as is done by the sun or with a cloth or the like. b. To exhaust (anything) of its moisture; to render quite dry; to desiccate. (Chiefly in passive.) Also absol. = sense 1c above. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > dry [verb (transitive)] > dry up to dry upc1385 arefy1542 updry1559 enseara1616 the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > make into gas or produce gas from [verb (transitive)] > make into vapour > evaporate dryc1350 to dry upc1385 consumea1398 vapour1530 exhale1589 exhalate1599 waste1639 evaporate1646 avolate1673 c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Thisbe. 775 Phebus..Hadde dreyed up the dew of erbis wete. 1483 W. Caxton tr. A. Chartier Curial sig. j The grace of humanyte is not dreyed vp in the. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Dryed vp to be, as a cowe or yewe that goeth gelde or foremilch and geueth no mylke. 1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors v. f. 63^v Chalke is an earth by heat concocted..and dried vp. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 105 In Summer it [Jordan] is almost drien up. 1669 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 3) 41 The sharp Easterly..winds transpierce, and dry them [tulips] up. 1804 Ann. Rev. 2 81/1 One fertile source of information was dried up. 1850 J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. (1874) iii. ii. 407 The amazon..had her breast dried up that she might fight the more fiercely. 1871 R. H. Hutton Ess. (1877) I. 18 Theoretic atheism dries up the sources of personal affection. 1932 S. Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm vii. 92 She..flicked the reminders of dinner off the table with Adam's drying-up towel.] 1959 House & Garden Dec. 34/1 (heading) D for drying-up Essentially the masculine task. 1962 I. Murdoch Unofficial Rose ii. 28 I was just wondering if he'd mind drying up while we're at church. 1966 ‘K. Nicholson’ Hook, Line & Sinker ix. 101 He seemed preoccupied while drying-up. c. intransitive. Of water or moisture: To disappear entirely as by evaporation. Of a source: To cease to yield liquid, to become quite dry. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > become dry [verb (intransitive)] > dry up adroweOE dry?c1325 to dry up1535 crine?1553 exsiccate1686 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xii. 15 Beholde, yf he witholde the waters, they drye vp. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. ii. 62 The fountaine, from the which my currant runnes, Or else dryes vp. View more context for this quotation 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture II. 104/1 Springs..which have dryed up. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Two Voices in Poems (new ed.) II. 134 The sap dries up: the plant declines. d. intransitive (slang or colloquial). To stop the flow of words, cease talking; also gen. to stop, cease. spec. = sense 2d above (cf. quot. 1884²). Also transitive, to cause (someone) to forget his words in a play or the like. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)] > stop speaking to make up one's mouthc1175 to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175 blina1300 dumba1300 leavea1375 to put a sock in ita1529 hush1548 silence1551 stay1551 stow1567 stop1579 to save one's breath (also wind)1605 tace1697 stubble it!1699 shut your trap!1796 to keep a calm (or quiet) sough1808 stubble your whids!1830 to shut up1840 to dry up1853 pawl1867 subside1872 to pipe down1876 to shut (one's) head, face1876 shurrup1893 to shut off1896 clam1916 dry1934 shtum1958 to oyster up1973 1853 San Francisco Comm. Advertiser 9 Dec. 2/4 She defied his Honor..and giving assurance of a disposition never to ‘dry up’, was carried down below to cool off. 1862 ‘G. Hamilton’ Country Living & Country Thinking 94 Men can talk ‘slang’. ‘Dry up’ is nowhere forbidden in the Decalogue. 1865 The Index 2 Feb. (Farmer) With which modest contribution we dry up with reference to the subject. 1884 Cornhill Mag. June 617 (Farmer) Dry up!..the slangy..exclamation with which he cuts short..attempts of his mother to lecture him. 1884 G. Moore Mummer's Wife (1887) 179 No matter how well you knew your words, you'd dry up when you got before the footlights. 1892 R. L. Stevenson Vailima Lett. (1895) xxiv. 231 The rain begins..and I will do the reverse and dry up. 1923 N.Y. Times 9 Sept. vii. 2/1 Dry a man up, to give the wrong cue, or to say something aside to disconcert a fellow-actor, and so cause him to dry up. 1928 F. S. Fitzgerald in Sat. Evening Post 21 July 8/3 ‘Oh, dry up!’ retorted Basil. 1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage iii. 34 When an actor fails to remember his lines and the scene comes to an unpremeditated stop he ‘dries up’. 1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage iii. 36 We didn't dry up! No, we kept that scene going! 1934 H. N. Rose Thes. Slang xii. 83/2 What's the idea of trying to dry me up in the last number? 1967 Times 10 May 3/8 (headline) Insurance to stop actor ‘drying up’. 1969 Listener 31 July 140/3 Why is the advertising drying up? Who has stopped (or never even started) advertising in these six? Draft additions September 2016 colloquial (chiefly U.S.). to hang (someone) out to dry (also to leave (someone) out to dry, etc.) and variants: to put (someone) in a difficult, vulnerable, or compromising situation, especially by being exposed to blame; hence simply out to dry. ΚΠ 1950 Los Angeles Sentinel 22 June b1/1 Her song-sational vocalizing took all standing records by the tail and ‘hung them out to dry’. 1978 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 20 Jan. People would hang us out to dry if we tried to change the look of the cable cars. 1985 R. Caron Bingo! iii. 19 They pointed out to Lorne that I was a lucrative catch, with a Montreal reputation, and by laying me out to dry the word would get around about back-room justice. 1998 J. J. Dewey Immortal (2005) II. 351 She was feeling that God himself had betrayed her and had left her out to dry. 2007 Reno (Nevada) Gaz.-Jrnl. 10 Sept. a1 If we don't try and something's found later on, we're out to dry. 2011 Economist 26 Feb. 64/3 The price rises will swiftly be reversed and the bosses responsible..could find themselves hung out to dry. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1200adj.adv.c888v.c888
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