sun-driedadj.
/ˈsʌndrʌɪd/, /ˌsʌnˈdrʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈsənˌdraɪd/ 1. Dried by exposure to the heat of the sun rather than the heat of a fire, oven, etc.
a. Designating fresh produce, esp. fruit, preserved by drying in this way. Now chiefly in sun-dried tomato.
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the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > dried (up) > by heat or parched > by sun
sun-dried?1440
sunburnta1586
sunbaked1628
rizzaredc1745
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) ii. l. 257 Ek slitte & sondried, thou mayst hem [sc. her fruyt] kepe.
1649 C. Hoole Easie Entrance Lat. Tongue 181/2 A sun-dryed-fig, Ficus liviána.
1698 M. Lister Journey to Paris 163 Wines..that were made of half Sun dried Grapes.
a1749 S. Boyse Vision of Patience in Poet. Wks. (1794) 345/2 Nor wanted he for fowl or sun-dried fish.
1822 J. Neal Logan I. xi. 201 A fire was made, and some food, such as the Indian is never without, of parched corn, and sun-dried venison, was prepared.
1861 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 10 May 454/2 Dendeng, or sun-dried meat,..and several other Oriental delicacies.
1939 S. Cloete Watch for Dawn iii. 39 He had mebos and raisins and sun-dried peaches.
1984 J. Rosso & S. Lukins Silver Palate Good Times Cookbk. (1985) iii. vi. 252/2 Imported sun-dried tomatoes from Italy are one of our current cravings.
2006 J. H. Ainsworth Killing Paparazzi vi. 41 He made a tomato-based sauce with onions, garlic, chopped tomatoes, sun-dried tomatoes, oregano, [etc.].
b. Designating materials used for building, manufacturing, etc., produced in this way. Chiefly in sun-dried brick.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > brick > [adjective] > type of brick
sun-dried1600
housing1703
shuffy1850
Fletton1908
sand-lime1910
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. vi. 268 Castles..enuironed with walles made of sunne-dried bricke.
1686 N. Crouch View Eng. Acquisitions in Guinea & E. Indies 162 The Houses are for the most part built of Sun-dried Bricks very large and lasting.
1787 tr. C. E. Savary Lett. on Egypt (ed. 2) I. xxviii. 428 Houses, built of sun-dried bricks, present a gloomy assemblage of huts.
1858 S. Birch Hist. Anc. Pottery I. 158 Sun-dried clay was used by the Greeks for modelling objects intended for internal decorations.
1929 Michigan Technic Nov. 12/1 Built from the usual sun-dried brick, without the use of mortar.
2006 Independent on Sunday 26 Feb. (Review Suppl.) 8/1 The Great Mosque, in Djenné, Mali..was built 100 years ago out of sun-dried mud bricks.
2. Dried up, parched, or withered by the sun.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [adjective] > injured by heat or fire > parched > by the sun
sunburnta1586
scorcheda1593
sun-dried1604
sunbaked1628
sun-dry1885
1604 H. Petowe Londoners their Entertainm. in Countrie sig. C4 Forceth such distilling teares from Shepheards sunne dried eies.
1638 G. Sandys Paraphr. Songs Old & New Test. Exod. xv. 11 in Paraphr. Divine Poems As Fire the Sun-dri'd Stubble burnes.
1788 H. Cowley Fate of Sparta v. 80 I'll follow thee to desert lands, or sun-dried meads.
1842 Dumfries Herald Oct. Where you hear the whins, with their opening capsules, crackling on the sun-dried braes.
1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke xxiii. 231 Their dark sun-dried faces..marked them as fishermen or seamen.
1935 Boys' Life May 14/3 Only then could he see across the tops of the tall, softly waving stalks of sun-dried grass, and the low scrubby growth that clothed this vast, flat area.
2004 Louisiana Coastal Area Ecosystem Restoration Study (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) App. D. iii. 64 Fresh fluid mudflats and older sun-dried, desiccated mudflats are common throughout Shoreline Reach 8.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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