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单词 dryth
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drythn.

/drʌɪθ/
Forms: Also 1500s–1600s drythe, drith(e, drieth, dryeth.
Etymology: < dry adj. + -th suffix1, after warmth, etc.
Now only southern dialect.
a. Dryness, dry condition.
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the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [noun] > aridity or lack of moisture
droughta1100
dryness1398
drytha1533
squalora1637
aritude1656
aridness1731
aridity1796
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. Ll.v By heate of the sonne and drythe of the powdre.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark xi. f. 20 By reason of the drieth of his bodye.
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. viii. 15 Moysture and dryeth, heat and cold.
1671 J. Blagrave Astrol. Pract. Physick 10 Agreeing with heat and drith.
1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. ii. 3 Dryth and Moisture.
1711 J. Greenwood Ess. Pract. Eng. Gram. 175 Dry'th.
1889 Temple Bar Feb. 178) (dial. ‘What the old man do want is nourishing food and dryth.’
b. Dry weather, drought.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > dry weather or climate > [noun]
droughtc1175
dryc1200
dryth1571
rainlessness1848
1571 T. Fortescue tr. P. Mexia Foreste 106 b Bee you well assured of greate drieth.
1610 G. Fletcher Christ's Victory in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign James I (1848) 53 But now for drieth the fields were all undone.
1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. (at cited word) Drythe never yet bred dearth.
1893 ‘Q’ Delectable Duchy 294 The end of a week's dryth.
c. Thirst. Obsolete.
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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
1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. R.ii The dropsy dryeth, that Tantale in the flood Endureth aye.
1587 M. Grove Pelops & Hippodamia (1878) 86 His dryth and thirst he slakes.
d. Drying.
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the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [noun] > becoming dry
resiccation1615
arescation1628
updrying1658
dry-up1873
dryth1881
1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §1588 To harden it and promote quick dryth.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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