Word Meanings - DRY-RUB - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To rub and cleanse without wetting. Dodsley.
Related words: (words related to DRY-RUB)
- WITHOUT-DOOR
Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak. - WITHOUTFORTH
Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer. - WETTISH
Somewhat wet; moist; humid. - CLEANSE
To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean. If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John i. 7. Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet - WITHOUTEN
Without. Chaucer. - CLEANSER
One who, or that which, cleanses; a detergent. Arbuthnot. - WITHOUT
1. On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors. Without the gate Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein. Dryden. 2. Out of the limits of; out of reach of; beyond. Eternity, before the world and after, is without our - ROWETT
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