Dry

[A. S. dri, drig, or dryg. See the verb] Destitute of moisture; free from water or wetne ; arid; not moist; free from rain or mist; as, dry weather, or dry soil. - Free from juice, sap, or aqueous matter; not green; as, dry timber. - Without tears; not shedding tears; as, dry eyes. -Not yielding milk or nourishment; as, to milk a cow dry. - Athirst; craving drink; thirst; as, a dry throat, to feel dry, . - Barren; jejune; unembellished; uninteresting; plain; as, a dry subject, a dry book, a dry sermon. - Severe; sarcastic; keen; hard; harsh; as, a dry manner, a dry retort, a dry kind of man. "His brain's as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage." Shaks. (Fine Arts.) Frigidly exact; coldly precise in execution; wanting delicacy of outline in form, or easy gradation of color. Dry wine, wine in which the saccharine element is scarcely perceptible to the palate; - in contradistinction to sweet wine ; as, dry champagne. -v. a. [A. S. drygan; L. Ger. drogen; Dan. droogen.] To free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to desiccate; to deprive of natural juice, sap, or greenne ; to drain; to exhaust; as, to dry the eyes, to dry clothes, to dry meat, to dry herbs, the sun dries the ground, . To dry up, to parch with thirst; to scorch with the action of heat; to exhaust utterly of water or moisture; as, land dried up by drought. - To cease speaking; to stop talking; to give up chattering. (Colloquially used, and vulgar.) -v.n. To grow or become thirsty or parched; to lose moisture; to be drained of juice or liquid matter. -To evaporate wholly; to be exhaled; - frequently preceding up; as, the river has dried up.