Dryophidæ (driofide)

pl. [NL., 1786 I became a merchant a wholesale trafficker... in everything, from barrels of gunpowder down to a pickled herring. In the civic acceptation of the word, I am a merchant; amongst the vulgar, I am called a drysalter . T. Hook , Gilbert Gurney, III. ii. 2. A dealer in dyestuffs, chemical products, etc. [Great Britain.] drysaltery (dri'sâlter-i), n. [ dry - salt + -ery .] 1. The busine of a drysalter.-2. The articles kept by a drysalter. dry-shod (dri's hod), a. Having dry shoes or feet. Dry-shod to pa e she parts the flouds in tway. Spenser, F. Q., I. x. 20. Those Feet, that dry - shod past the Crims in Gulf, Now dance (alas!) before a Molten Calf. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Lawe.