Dry measure

A measure of quantity for dry, coarse, or bulky articles. Dry Mills, in Maine , a post-office of Cumber land co. Dry'ne , n. State of being dry, or without moisture or sap; siccity; aridity; want of succulence or greenne ; barrenne ; jejunene ; want of lively or entertaining qualities; harshne or closene of character; as, dryne of soil, language, manner, style, . ( Painting . ) A term by which artists expre the common defect of the early painters in oil, who had but little knowledge of the flowing contours which so elegantly show the delicate forms of the limbs and the insertions of the muscles; the flesh in their coloring appearing hard and stiff, instead of expre ing a pleasing softne . The draperies of those early painters, and particularly of the Germans, concealed the limbs of the figures, without truth or elegance of choice; and even in their best masters the draperies very frequently either demeaned or encumbered the figures.