druvyt

See drovy. Brockett. druxy, druxey (druk'si), a. [Also droxy, and formerly * drixy, dricksie; origin obscure.] Partly decayed, as a tree or timber; having decayed spots or streaks of a whitish color. dry (dri), a. and n. [Early mod. E. also drie; = trucken, trocken, G. trocken, adj., dry. Cf. Icel. draugr, a dry log, from the same Teut. *drug. Hence ult. drought1, drouth, dryth, and drug1.] I. a.; compar. drier, superl. driest (sometimes dryer and dryest). 1. Without moisture; not moist; absolutely or comparatively free from water or wetne , or from fluid of any kind: as, dry land; dry clothes; dry weather; a dry day; dry wood; dry bones. When 'tis fair and dry Weather North of the Equator, 'tis blustering and rainy Weather South of it. Dampier, Voyages, II. iii. 77. It is a very dry country, where they have hardly any other supply but from the rain water. Pococke , Description of the East, II. ii. 136. Upon the reading of this letter, there was not a dry eye in the club. Add is on, Spectator, No. 517. Nor vainly buys what Gildor sells, Poetic buckets for dry wells. M. Green, The Spleen. Specifically-2. In geol. and mining, free from the presence or use of water, or distant from water: as, dry diggings; dry separation.-3. Not giving milk: as, a dry cow.-4. Thirsty; craving drink, especially intoxicating drink. None so dry or thirsty.. will touch one drop of it. Shak., T. of the S., v. 2. Believe me, I am dry with talking; here, boy, give us here a bottle and a gla . Cotton, in Walton's Angler, ii. 259. I suspected nothing but that he had rode till he was dry. Walpole , Letters, II. 346. 5. Barren; jejune; destitute of interest; incapable of awakening emotion: as, a dry style; a dry subject; a dry discu ion. As one then in a dreame, whose dryer braine Is tost with troubled sights and fancies weake, He mumbled soft, but would not all his silence breake. Spenser, F. Q., I. 1. 42. Their discourses from the pulpit are generally dry , methodical, and unaffecting. Goldsmith, English Clergy. Long before he reached manhood he knew how to baffle curiosity by dry and guarded answers. Macaulay , Hist. Eng., vii. Macaulay's memory, like Niebuhr's, undoubtedly confounded not infrequently inference and fact; it exaggerated; it gave, not what was in the book, but what a vivid imagination inferred from the book. Sir George Lewis had none of this defect; his memory was a dry memory, just as his mind was a dry light; he said a thing was at page 10, you might be sure it was at page 10. W. Bagehot, On Sir G. C. Lewis. 6t. Severe; hard: as, a dry blow. Dro. S. I pray you eat none of it [meat]. Ant . S. Your reason? Dro. S. Lest it make you choleric, and purchase me another dry basting. Shak ., C. of E., ii. 2. If I should have said no, I should have given him the lie, uncle, and so have deserved a dry beating again. Ford , 'Tis Pity, ii. 6. 7. Lacking in cordiality; cold: as, his answer was very short and dry . IMG:content-0037.png:[blocks in formation] He was rather a dry, shrewd kind of body. Irving. 3. To wither; parch. Mark... is exceedingly calm; his smile is shrewd; he can say the driest, most cutting things in the quietest Charlotte Brontë, Shirley, ix. tones. 9. In painting, noting a hardne or formal stiffne of outline, or a want of mellowne and harmony in color; frigidly precise; harsh. The Fall of the Angels, by F. Floris, 1554; which has some good parts, but without ma es, and dry. Sir J. Reynolds, Journey to Flanders and Holland. No comparison can be instituted between his [Verrochio's] dry uninspired manner and the divine style of his scholar [Leonardo da Vinci). C. C. Perkins, Italian Sculpture, p. 136. A man of God, by Faith, first strangely drïd, Then heal'd again, that Kings vnholy hand. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Triumph of Faith, iiii. 8. This wasted body, Beaten and bru is'd with arms, dried up with troubles, Is good for nothing else but quiet now, sir, And holy prayers. Fletcher, Loyal Subject, i. 3. Cut and dried. See cut , p. a. - Dried alum. Same as burnt alum (which see, under alum ) . - To dry up. (a) To deprive wholly of moisture; scorch or parch with arid- ity. Their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. Isa. v. 13. (b) To evaporate completely; stop the flow of: as, the 10. In sculp., lacking or void of luxuriousne fierce heat dried up all the streams. or tenderne in form. - 11. Free from sweetne and fruity flavor: said of wines and, by extension, of brandy and the like. It is said also of artificially prepared wines, as champagnes, in which a diminished amount of sweetening, or liqueur, as it is called, is added, as compared with sweet wines. 12. In metal., noting a peculiar condition of a metal undergoing metallurgic treatment. The epithet is chiefly used in reference to copper which is being refined. Dry copper contains a certain proportion of oxygen in combination, and to eliminate this it is subjected to the proce of poling. During the ladling out the refiner takes an a ay at short intervals, as the metal is liable to get out of pitch, or become dry, as under-poled copper is termed. Encyc. Brit ., VI. 350. 13. In American political slang, of or belonging to the Prohibition party; in favor of or adopting prohibition of the sale or use of intoxicating liquors: opposed to wet: as, a dry town, county, or State. Cut and dryt. See cut, p. a.Dry bob, casting, color. See the nouns.-Dry confections. See confection. - Dry cooper. See cooper. Dry cupping. See cupping, 1.- Dry digging, distillation, exchange, ma , measure, pile, etc. See the nouns.-Dry plate, photog., a sensitized plate of which the sensitive film is hard and dry, so that it can be packed away, and, if protected from light, will keep for a considerable time before being used to make a negative or a positive picture. Various proce es for preparing dry plates have been experimented with almost since the earliest diffusion of photography; but most of these proce es afforded plates of very uncertain quality, slow in operation, and exceedingly unreliable in their property of keeping. Dry plates have comparatively recently come into general use, in great measure superseding the old wet plates, owing to the adoption of gelatin as a medium for the sensitizing agent (bromide of silver), which is formed into an emulsion with the gelatin, and spread in a thin film upon some support, as gla , paper, or metal. Such plates require a remarkably short exposure to make a picture, are very convenient to handle, since the operator can make a number of exposures at one time and place, and can perform the chemical operations of development, etc., at his convenience, weeks afterward, if nece ary, at any other place, instead of being forced, as with wet plates, to finish his picture at once. Moreover, the gelatin film is so tough that it is hardly nece ary to varnish a dry-plate picture, as is indispensable with the tender collodion film; and these plates can be prepared commercially at small cost and of even quality. Their chief defect is that they cannot, as now made, be trusted to keep unimpaired in warm, damp weather, while unexposed or undeveloped, unle carefully protected from the air (in air tight boxes). - Dry proce . See proce . - Dry season, a fishing season during which fish are scarce, [Local, New England.] - Dry service. See dry ma , under ma 1. - Dry way, a method of a aying by the aid of fire, or in a furnace or muffle: the opposite of a aying in the humil way, when the combination to be a ayed, or, more properly, analyzed, exists in solution, or in the liquid form.High and dry. See high. - To boil dry. See boil2. II. n.; pl. dries (drīz). 1. A place where things are dried; a drying-house. In the tanks it [clay] is allowed to settle until it acquires a thick creamy consistency, when it is transferred to the drying-house or dry . Encyc. Brit ., XIV. 1. 2. In American political slang, a member of the Prohibition party.-3. In masonry, a fi ure in a stone, intersecting it at various angles to its bed and rendering it unfit to support a load. dry (dri), v.; pret. and pp. dried, ppr. drying. [ME. dryen, drien, drigen, drygen, etc., After drie hem in the sonne, a nyghtes Leve hem not throute, and then in places colde Lette honge hem uppe. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 117. Dry up your tears, and stick your rosemary On this fair corse. Shak., R. and J., iv. 5. II. in trans. 1. To lose moisture; become free from moisture. - 2. To evaporate; be exhaled; lose fluidity: as, water dries away rapidly; blood dries quickly on exposure to the air. To dry up. (a) To become thoroughly dry; lose all moisture. (b) To be wholly evaporated; cease to flow. (c) To wither, as a limb. (d) To cease talking; be silent. [Low.] Dry up :-no, I won't dry up. I'll have my rights, if I die for 'em,. so you had better dry up yourself. = P. Reeves, Student's Speaker, p. 79. dryad (dri'ad), n. [= D. G. Dan. dryade = Sw. dryad dryad = = F. dryade = Sp. dríade , dríada = Pg . dry as It. driada , driade , dry as ( dryad- ), δρυς , α tree, esp. and commonly the oak, = E. tree, q. v. Cf. hamadryad .] 1. In myth ., a deity or nymph of the woods; a nymph supposed to re- side in trees or preside over woods. See ham a- dryad. Soft she withdrew, and, like a wood-nymph light, Oread or Dryad , or of Delia's train, Betook her to the groves. Milton , P. L., ix. 887. Thon, light-winged Dryad of the trees,... Singest of summer in full-throated ease. Keats , Ode to a Nightingale. Knock at the rough rind of this ilex-tree, and summon forth the Dryad. Hawthorne, Marble Faun, ix. 2. In zoöl., a kind of dormouse, Myoxus dry as. Dryades (dri'a-dēz), n. pl. [NL.] A group of butterflies, named from the genus Dryas. Hüb ner, 1816. dryadic (dri-ad'ik), a. [ He could hear the woods declaiming in vibrant periods, although he could translate none of these dryadic tones that came from the trees. The Atlantic, LXI. 669.