Word Meanings - DRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of certain morbid conditions, in which there is entire or comparative absence of moisture; as, dry gangrene; dry catarrh. 2. Destitute of that which interests or amuses; barren; unembellished; jejune; plain. These epistles will become less dry,

Additional info about word: DRY

Of certain morbid conditions, in which there is entire or comparative absence of moisture; as, dry gangrene; dry catarrh. 2. Destitute of that which interests or amuses; barren; unembellished; jejune; plain. These epistles will become less dry, more susceptible of ornament. Pope. 3. Characterized by a quality somewhat severe, grave, or hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as, a dry tone or manner; dry wit. He was rather a dry, shrewd kind of body. W. Irving. (more info) AS. dryge; akin to LG. dröge, D. droog, OHG. trucchan, G. trocken, 1. Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind; -- said especially: Of the weather: Free from rain or mist. The weather, we agreed, was too dry for the season. Addison. Of vegetable matter: Free from juices or sap; not succulent; not green; as, dry wood or hay. Of animals: Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry. Of persons: Thirsty; needing drink. Give the dry fool drink. Shak Of the eyes: Not shedding tears. Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly. Prescott.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DRY)

• Arid
• Dry
• parched
• sterile
• unproductive
• Drain Draw
• strain
• drip
• percolate
• drop
• exhaust
• empty
• dry
• Meagre
• Thin
• lean
• lank
• scanty
• barren
• tame
• Wither
• Shrivel
• collapse
• shrink
• blast
• blight

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DRY)

• Restore
• expand
• swell

Related words: (words related to DRY)

• PERCOLATE
  To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain. Sir M. Hale.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• DRAINE
  The missel thrush.
• BLASTMENT
  A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. Shak.
• BLAST
  1. To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom. 2. To blow; to blow on a trumpet. Toke his blake trumpe faste And gan to puffen and to blaste. Chaucer.
• EXPAND
  To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy. Dryden.
• SHRINKINGLY
  In a shrinking manner.
• STRAINING
  from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
• EXHAUSTION
  An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications
• BLASTOSPHERE
  The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum. Note:
• BLASTOPHORE
  That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them.
• EMPTY
  1. To discharge itself; as, a river empties into the ocean. 2. To become empty. "The chapel empties." B. Jonson.
• BLASTODERMATIC; BLASTODERMIC
  Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.
• SWELLTOAD
  A swellfish.
• EXHAUSTIVE
  Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. Ex*haust"ive*ly, adv.
• SHRINKING
  from Shrink. Shrinking head , a body of molten metal connected with a mold for the purpose of supplying metal to compensate for the shrinkage of the casting; -- called also sinking head, and riser.
• EXHAUSTURE
  Exhaustion. Wraxall.
• RESTORE
  Restoration. Spenser.
• BARRENLY
  Unfruitfully; unproductively.
• WITHER-WRUNG
  Injured or hurt in the withers, as a horse.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• DIPLOBLASTIC
  Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.
• TOPARCH
  The ruler or principal man in a place or country; the governor of a toparchy. The prince and toparch of that country. Fuller.
• UPSWELL
  To swell or rise up.
• NEMATOBLAST
  A spermatocyte or spermoblast.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• ABLASTEMIC
  Non-germinal.
• WATER DRAIN
  A drain or channel for draining off water.
• CNIDOBLAST
  One of the cells which, in the Coelenterata, develop into cnidæ.
• EPARCH
  In ancient Greece, the governor or perfect of a province; in modern Greece, the ruler of an eparchy.
• MEAGERNESS; MEAGRENESS
  The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
• EPARCHY
  A province, prefecture, or territory, under the jurisdiction of an eparch or governor; esp., in modern Greece, one of the larger subdivisions of a monarchy or province of the kingdom; in Russia, a diocese or archdiocese.