'Drying' definitions:
Definition of 'Drying'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- To dry up. (a) To scorch or parch with thirst; to deprive utterly of water; to consume. [1913 Webster]
- Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. -- Is. v. 13. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Their sources of revenue were dried up. -- Jowett (Thucyd. )
- To dry a cow, or To dry up a cow, to cause a cow to cease secreting milk. --Tylor. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Drying'
From: GCIDE
- Drying \Dry"ing\, a.
- 1. Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry. [1913 Webster]
- Drying oil, an oil which, either naturally or after boiling with oxide of lead, absorbs oxygen from the air and dries up rapidly. Drying oils are used as the bases of many paints and varnishes. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'drying'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- air-drying,
- anhydration,
- atrophy,
- attenuation,
- blast-freezing,
- bottling,
- brining,
- canning,
- consumption,
- corning,
- curing,
- dehumidification,
- dehydrating,
- dehydration,
- desiccant,
- desiccation,
- desiccative,
- drainage,
- dry-curing,
- drying up,
- emaceration,
- emaciation,
- embalming,
- evaporation,
- evaporative,
- exsiccant,
- exsiccative,
- freeze-drying,
- freezing,
- fuming,
- insolation,
- irradiation,
- jerking,
- marination,
- mummification,
- parching,
- pickling,
- potting,
- preshrinkage,
- quick-freezing,
- refrigeration,
- salting,
- Sanforizing,
- searing,
- seasoning,
- shrinkage,
- shrinking,
- shriveling,
- siccative,
- smoking,
- stuffing,
- taxidermy,
- thinning,
- tinning,
- wasting,
- withering
Words containing 'Drying'
- Dried,
- Dry,
- To dry up,
- dri,
- dried up,
- dry out,
- dry up,
- drying up,
- Cut and dried,
- Dry Creek,
- Dry Prong,
- Dry Ridge,
- Dry Run,
- Dry area,
- Dry blow,
- Dry bone,
- Dry castor,
- Dry cup,
- Dry cupping,
- Dry distillation,
- Dry dock,
- Dry fat,
- Dry goods,
- Dry light,
- Dry masonry,
- Dry measure,
- Dry meter,
- Dry nurse,
- Dry pile,
- Dry pipe,
- Dry plate,
- Dry point,
- Dry rent,
- Dry rot,
- Dry steam,
- Dry stove,
- Dry vat,
- Dry wine,
- Drying oil,
- High and dry,
- To dry a cow,
- To dry up a cow,
- bone dry,
- dried apricot,
- dried fruit,
- dried milk,
- dried-out,
- dried-up,
- dry battery,
- dry cell,
- dry cereal,
- dry clean,
- dry cleaner,
- dry cleaners,
- dry cleaning,
- dry cure,
- dry fly,
- dry fruits,
- dry gangrene,
- dry ice,
- dry kiln,
- dry land,
- dry milk,
- dry mop,
- dry mouth,
- dry mustard,
- dry pack,
- dry pint,
- dry quart,
- dry season,
- dry socket,
- dry unit,
- dry vermouth,
- dry wall,
- dry walling,
- dry wash,
- drying agent,
- freeze dry,
- run dry,
- suck dry,
- sucked dry,
- tumble dry,
- Dry Creek, AK,
- Dry Creek, OK,
- Dry Prong, LA,
- Dry Ridge, KY,
- Dry Run, OH,
- Dry-beat,
- Dry-boned,
- Dry-eyed,
- Dry-fisted,
- Dry-rub,
- Dry-rubbed,
- Dry-rubbing,
- Dry-shod,
- Dry-stone,
- Freeze-dried,
- Freeze-dry,
- Freeze-drying,
- Kiln-dry,
- Smoke-dry,
- Sun-dried,
- air-dried,
- air-dry,
- blow-dry,
- bone-dry,
- cut-and-dried,
- cut-and-dry,
- drip-dry,
- dry plate process,
- dry-clean,
- dry-cleaned,
- dry-dock,
- dry-gulching,
- dry-nurse,
- dry-rot,
- dry-wall,
- floating dry dock,
- kiln-dried,
- medium-dry,
- nonfat dry milk,
- quick-drying,
- rough-dry,
- semi-dry,
- smoke-dried,
- spin-dry,
- spray-dried,
- spray-dry,
- Dry-plate process,
- dry-bulb thermometer,
- dry-stone wall,
- dry-wood termite,
- united states dry unit,
- dry ironic ironical pawky wry