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Dried \Dried\ (dr[imac]d),
imp. & p. p. of {Dry}. Also adj.; as, dried apples.
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Dry \Dry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dried}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Drying}.] [AS. drygan; cf. drugian to grow dry. See {Dry},
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.
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{To dry up}.
(a) To scorch or parch with thirst; to deprive utterly of
water; to consume.
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Their honorable men are famished, and their
multitude dried up with thirst. -- Is. v. 13.
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The water of the sea, which formerly covered it,
was in time exhaled and dried up by the sun.
--Woodward.
(b) To make to cease, as a stream of talk.
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Their sources of revenue were dried up. -- Jowett
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{To dry a cow}, or {To dry up a cow}, to cause a cow to cease
secreting milk. --Tylor.
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