(superl.) 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.
(superl.) Of vegetable matter: Free from juices or sap; not succulent; not green; as, dry wood or hay.
(superl.) Of animals: Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry.
(superl.) Of persons: Thirsty; needing drink.
(superl.) Of the eyes: Not shedding tears.
(superl.) Of certain morbid conditions, in which there is entire or comparative absence of moisture; as, dry gangrene; dry catarrh.
(superl.) Destitute of that which interests or amuses; barren; unembellished; jejune; plain.
(superl.) Characterized by a quality somewhat severe, grave, or hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as, a dry tone or manner; dry wit.
(superl.) Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and of easy transition in coloring.
(a.) 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.
(v. i.) To grow dry; to become free from wetness, moisture, or juice; as, the road dries rapidly.
(v. i.) To evaporate wholly; to be exhaled; -- said of moisture, or a liquid; -- sometimes with up; as, the stream dries, or dries up.
(v. i.) To shrivel or wither; to lose vitality.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maximal yields of lipid and aflatoxin were obtained with 30% glucose, whereas mold growth, expressed as dry weight, was maximal when the medium contained 10% glucose.
(2) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
(3) Over the years the farm dams filled less frequently while the suburbs crept further into the countryside, their swimming pools oblivious to the great drying.
(4) It was shown that gradual recovery of spike wave patterns occurred from initial water swallowing to successive dry swalllowing.
(5) Mucosal drying medications and senile salivary gland atrophy seemed to contribute to the high frequency of sicca in this population with a lesser proportion of the subjects demonstrating previously undiagnosed Sjögren's and possible Sjögren's syndrome.
(6) Where the guanine content was more than or equal to 0.25% in the dry dust, mite numbers were higher than 10 mites per 0.1 g dust in 43 of the 44 samples.
(7) Reconstituted freeze dried allogeneic skin grafts contained virtually no blood, a phenomenon possibly analogous to the 'no reflow' phenomenon of microsurgery.
(8) In Humbo in Ethiopia , FMNR has re-greened 2,800 hectares: springs, dry for 30 years, are flowing again.
(9) 54% of patients in the rainy season were ELISA positive for RSV compared to 8.8% during the dry season.
(10) This study compares the effects of 60 minutes of ischemic arrest with profound topical hypothermia (10 dogs) on myocardial (1) blood flow and distribution (microspheres), (2) metabolism (oxygen and lactate), (3) water content (wet to dry weights), (4) compliance (intraventricular balloon), and (5) performance (isovolumetric function curves) with 180 minutes of cardiopulmonary bypass with the heart in the beating empty state (seven dogs).
(11) Healthbars such as Nakd fit this category and promise to deliver one of your five a day, based on the quantity of freeze-dried date paste used.
(12) Freeze-dried mannitol preparations were shown to be of a crystalline nature.
(13) The dried-specimen-teasing method appears useful, because of the ease of preparation of the specimens, its reproducibility, and the degree of visibility and preservation of cell surface structures and intraclonal relationships.
(14) The parameters of LES relaxation for both wet and dry swallows were similar using either a carefully placed single recording orifice or a Dent sleeve.
(15) The concentration of prey and the ciliate mean cell volume, dry weight, and number per milliliter were determined at known growth rates.
(16) The first stop in this arid place of poor farms and orchards clinging to the dry soil is Rafah, cut off by the border from its Palestinian counterpart.
(17) Percentage of dry tissue and protein concentration increased in parallel during the whole period.
(18) A clinical investigation was made between workers exposed to dried sewage sludge dust and age matched controls not exposed.
(19) During suction a flow of cold, dry room air replaces the warm, moist cavity air, causing cooling both directly and by vaporization of water.
(20) Patients with complaints of dry eyes and dry mouth but with no objective abnormalities served as control group.
Dryly
Definition:
(adv.) In a dry manner; not succulently; without interest; without sympathy; coldly.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The last 13 years, no, make that 30, had taught me not to hope," he said dryly.
(2) You’re not the first person to be let down by Boris Johnson,” a Tory grandee once dryly remarked when I had to stand in for BoJo at some obscure seminar.
(3) She promises to send me some chapters and when I ask if she has a title yet, Haze answers dryly, half-smiling, teasing I think.
(4) Putin is not very popular in the US,” one party veteran operative dryly observed.
(5) A well-scripted and dryly-delivered gag allows the advert to do exactly what it's designed to do - highlight the idea that our brains don't function very well when we're dehydrated, while positioning the advertised product as the solution.
(6) People set to lose their jobs in cascades from April say dryly: "I'm about to join the big society."
(7) He later commented, dryly, that his critics "dismissed my ideas by referring to me as a poet".
(8) Cleese sums up the affair best, observing dryly, "I always felt we won that one by behaving better than the Christians."
(9) When Steel was launching his parliamentary career back in the 60s, Scotland's first minister was a choir boy in Steel's father's church – "an angelic cherub", he offers dryly.
(10) (For his part, Clooney has dryly said that he's grateful to have Heslov around because "he's a magnet for all the paparazzi – he soaks it up".)
(11) Three films into his career, he has already established a recognisable sensibility (dryly funny, inquisitive, plangent) and been honoured with a retrospective at the Irish Film Institute .
(12) And," she adds dryly, recalling the urgent support required by one child's family earlier this morning, "we're quite busy at the moment, really."
(13) "The window for accessing that academy money was about two weeks in January," Renshaw says dryly, "and nobody was told about it."
(14) "I disagreed with him on almost everything," Willis says dryly.
(15) As for the potential impact of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom , Mngxitama said dryly:: "In South Africa we are not persuaded by films.
(16) That information, which came by way of a government budget analysis that dryly noted that the NFL’s 2013 revenues of $9.2bn exceed San Francisco’s total annual budget, added insult to injury for residents of the city already feeling inconvenienced and alienated by an expensive, star-studded spectacle that is increasing traffic, disrupting public transportation and shutting down streets.
(17) Faisal's lines are smartly written and dryly delivered, which at least allows him wit and dignity, though he gets none of his real-life action.
(18) I wrote a whole chapter about this in my book Hard Choices,” the former secretary of state replied dryly.
(19) While Pellegrini has dryly laughed off his ignorance by apologising for not being able to score four goals at the home of the European champions, privately he may feel otherwise.
(20) When he finished a job, he’d “sign” his nickname into the deadwax between the music and the label – either Pecko, Pecko Duck, Porky, or his most famous inscription, “A Porky Prime Cut” – and add dryly humorous phrases.