exsuccousadj.
/ɛksˈsʌkəs/ Without juice, sapless. Also figurative.
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the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > arid or without water or moisture > without juice or sap
juiceless1602
soplessc1639
exsuccous1646
succeless1657
unjuicy1662
strigose1708
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. vi. 99 That which is brought exuccous and dry unto us. View more context for this quotation
a1682 Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend (1690) 6 Most Men expected to find a consumed Kell..in this exuccous Corps.
1818 Q. Rev. 18 235 A hard, dry, ‘exsuccous’ style of writing.
1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 10 561 The clouds hung like exsuccous sponges in the sky.
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adj.1646- of order
- of ordinary
- of other
- of our
- of ours
- of outpart
- of pain
- of pain of life
- of part
- of party
- of passage
- of peise
- of perfect memory
- of perforce
- of pith and moment
- of possibility
- of power
- of present
- of prey
- of price
- of proportion
- of public resort
- of purchase
- of purpose of a purpose)
- of purpose of a set purpose)