Definition of Dry

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Definition of Dry

Dry

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: (a) Of the weather: Free from rain or mist.

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.

Of the eyes: Not shedding tears.

Of certain morbid conditions, in which there is entire or comparative absence of moisture; as, dry gangrene; dry catarrh.

Destitute of that which interests or amuses; barren; unembellished; jejune; plain.

Characterized by a quality somewhat severe, grave, or hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as, a dry tone or manner; dry wit.

Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and of easy transition in coloring.

To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay.

To grow dry; to become free from wetness, moisture, or juice; as, the road dries rapidly.

To evaporate wholly; to be exhaled; -- said of moisture, or a liquid; -- sometimes with up; as, the stream dries, or dries up.

To shrivel or wither; to lose vitality.

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Dry Quotations

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
Warren Buffett

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
Kahlil Gibran

This shirt is dry clean only. Which means... it's dirty.
Mitch Hedberg

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
Henry David Thoreau

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.
Ansel Adams

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
Joseph Stalin

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode?
Langston Hughes

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
Thomas Merton

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
Victor Hugo

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
Robert Browning

Dry Translations

dry in Afrikaans is dor, droog
dry in Dutch is dor, droog
dry in Finnish is kuiva
dry in German is trocken, trocken, abtrocknen
dry in Italian is asciutto, asciugare, asciugare, secco
dry in Latin is siccus
dry in Portuguese is seco
dry in Spanish is seco, arido, arido, secar
dry in Swedish is torr, torka

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