drying machine (driingmashen")

A machine used in bleaching, dyeing, and laundry establishments, consisting of two concentric drums or cylinders, one within the other, open at the top, and having the inner cylinder perforated with holes. The goods to be dried are placed to enliven, enrich, or entertain. The poet either drily did active gives us rules which might appear abstruse even in a system of ethics, or triflingly volatile writes upon the most unworthy subjects. Goldsmith, The August an Age in England. 3. Coldly; frigidly; without affection. Virtue is but dryly praised and starves. IMG:content-0043.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][graphic] Flowering Branch of Camphor-tree ( Dryobalanops aromatic a). nus of trees, belonging to the natural order Dip terocarpeæ, natives of the Malay archipelago. The principal species, D. aromatic a, is remarkable as the source of the Borneo or Sumatra camphor, which is found filling cracks or cavities in the wood. See camphor. Dryden , tr. of Juvenal's Satires. Dryocopus (dri-ok'ō-pus), n . [NL., δρῦς , & 4t. Severely; harshly; inconsiderately. Conscious to himself how dryly the king had been used by his council. Bacon , Henry VII. 5. With apparently unintentional or sly hu mor or sarcasm.