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n. [ From Ballad, n. ] Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads. “Base balladry is so beloved.” Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. baudery, OF. bauderie, balderie, boldness, joy. See Bawd. ] 1. The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Illicit intercourse; fornication. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language. “The pert style of the pit bawdry.” Steele. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. without a trace of moisture. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of the nature of cedar. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Chandlery. [ Obs. ] “Torches from the chandry.” B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Commandery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being a cuckold; the practice of making cuckolds. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. treated so as to be easily or quickly washed and dried and requiring little or no ironing; -- of clothing.
Syn. -- wash-and-wear. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. requiring no ironing; -- used of fabrics and clothing; as, drip-dry shirts for travel.
Syn. -- permanent-press. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

{ or }, n. Drought. [ Obs. ] Tyndale. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Drier superl. Driest. ] [ OE. dru&yogh_;e, druye, drie, AS. dryge; akin to LG. dröge, D. droog, OHG. trucchan, G. trocken, Icel. draugr a dry log. Cf. Drought, Drouth, 3d Drug. ] 1. Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind; -- said especially: (a) Of the weather: Free from rain or mist. [ 1913 Webster ]

The weather, we agreed, was too dry for the season. Addison.

(b) Of vegetable matter: Free from juices or sap; not succulent; not green; as, dry wood or hay. (c) Of animals: Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry. (d) Of persons: Thirsty; needing drink. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give the dry fool drink. Shak

(e) Of the eyes: Not shedding tears. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly. Prescott.

(f) (Med.) Of certain morbid conditions, in which there is entire or comparative absence of moisture; as, dry gangrene; dry catarrh. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Destitute of that which interests or amuses; barren; unembellished; jejune; plain. [ 1913 Webster ]

These epistles will become less dry, more susceptible of ornament. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Characterized by a quality somewhat severe, grave, or hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as, a dry tone or manner; dry wit. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was rather a dry, shrewd kind of body. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Fine Arts) Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and of easy transition in coloring. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dry area (Arch.), a small open space reserved outside the foundation of a building to guard it from damp. --
Dry blow. (a) (Med.) A blow which inflicts no wound, and causes no effusion of blood. (b) A quick, sharp blow. --
Dry bone (Min.), Smithsonite, or carbonate of zinc; -- a miner's term. --
Dry castor (Zool.) a kind of beaver; -- called also parchment beaver. --
Dry cupping. (Med.) See under Cupping. --
Dry dock. See under Dock. --
Dry fat. See Dry vat (below). --
Dry light, pure unobstructed light; hence, a clear, impartial view. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ] The scientific man must keep his feelings under stern control, lest they obtrude into his researches, and color the dry light in which alone science desires to see its objects. J. C. Shairp. --
Dry masonry. See Masonry. --
Dry measure, a system of measures of volume for dry or coarse articles, by the bushel, peck, etc. --
Dry pile (Physics), a form of the Voltaic pile, constructed without the use of a liquid, affording a feeble current, and chiefly useful in the construction of electroscopes of great delicacy; -- called also Zamboni's, from the names of the two earliest constructors of it. --
Dry pipe (Steam Engine), a pipe which conducts dry steam from a boiler. --
Dry plate (Photog.), a glass plate having a dry coating sensitive to light, upon which photographic negatives or pictures can be made, without moistening. --
Dry-plate process, the process of photographing with dry plates. --
Dry point. (Fine Arts) (a) An engraving made with the needle instead of the burin, in which the work is done nearly as in etching, but is finished without the use acid. (b) A print from such an engraving, usually upon paper. (c) Hence: The needle with which such an engraving is made. --
Dry rent (Eng. Law), a rent reserved by deed, without a clause of distress. Bouvier. --
Dry rot, a decay of timber, reducing its fibers to the condition of a dry powdery dust, often accompanied by the presence of a peculiar fungus (Merulius lacrymans), which is sometimes considered the cause of the decay; but it is more probable that the real cause is the decomposition of the wood itself. D. C. Eaton. Called also sap rot, and, in the United States, powder post. Hebert. --
Dry stove, a hothouse adapted to preserving the plants of arid climates. Brande & C. --
Dry vat, a vat, basket, or other receptacle for dry articles. --
Dry wine, that in which the saccharine matter and fermentation were so exactly balanced, that they have wholly neutralized each other, and no sweetness is perceptible; -- opposed to sweet wine, in which the saccharine matter is in excess. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dried p. pr. & vb. n. Drying. ] [ AS. drygan; cf. drugian to grow dry. See Dry, a. ] To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay. [ 1913 Webster ]

To dry up. (a) To scorch or parch with thirst; to deprive utterly of water; to consume. [ 1913 Webster ] Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. Is. v. 13. [ 1913 Webster ] The water of the sea, which formerly covered it, was in time exhaled and dried up by the sun. Woodward. (b) To make to cease, as a stream of talk. [ 1913 Webster ] Their sources of revenue were dried up. Jowett (Thucyd. ) --
To dry a cow, or
To dry up a cow, to cause a cow to cease secreting milk. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To grow dry; to become free from wetness, moisture, or juice; as, the road dries rapidly. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To evaporate wholly; to be exhaled; -- said of moisture, or a liquid; -- sometimes with up; as, the stream dries, or dries up. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To shrivel or wither; to lose vitality. [ 1913 Webster ]

And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him. I Kings xiii. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dryas, pl. dryades, Gr. &unr_;, pl. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; oak, tree. See Tree. ] (Class. Myth.) A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of plants comprising tropical American species usually placed in the genus Masdevallia; they are very dwarf plants having short tufted and usually unifoliate stems with usually solitary flowers.
Syn. -- genus Dryadella. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL. Named after J. Dryander. ] (Bot.) A genus of shrubs growing in Australia, having beautiful, hard, dry, evergreen leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Dryades [ L. See Dryad. ] (Class. Myth.) A dryad. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To beat severely. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having dry bones, or bones without flesh. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. to clean without the use of water; -- usually by immersing in an organic solvent to remove grease. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. cleaned without the use of water; -- usually by immersing in an organic solvent to remove grease. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Naut.) See under Dock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Drier. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not having tears in the eyes. Opposite of tearful.
Syn. -- tearless. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Niggardly.
Syn. -- stingy; cheap; miserly. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ See Drove. ] (Law) An ancient yearly payment made by some tenants to the king, or to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The scent of the game, as far as it can be traced. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drying oil, an oil which, either naturally or after boiling with oxide of lead, absorbs oxygen from the air and dries up rapidly. Drying oils are used as the bases of many paints and varnishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a dry manner; not succulently; without interest; without sympathy; coldly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of epiphytic ferns of Madagascar to tropical Asia and New Guinea.
Syn. -- genus Drymoglossum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a genus of large robust epiphytic ferns of tropical forest and scrub; Africa and Asia and Australia.
Syn. -- genus Drynaria. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The state of being dry. See Dry. [ 1913 Webster ]

A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; -- in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it. [ 1913 Webster ]

, v. t. To feed, attend, and bring up without breastfeeding it. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. dry^s oak + ba`lanos acorn + 'o`psis appearance. The fruit remotely resembles an acorn in its cup. ] (Bot.) The genus to which belongs the single species Dryobalanops Camphora, a lofty resinous tree of Borneo and Sumatra, yielding Borneo camphor and camphor oil. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a spiny-leaved perennial herb of southern Europe having terminal clusters of small flowers. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dry-rubbed p. pr. & vb. n. Dry-rubbing. ] To rub and cleanse without wetting. Dodsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dealer in salted or dried meats, pickles, sauces, etc., and in the materials used in pickling, salting, and preserving various kinds of food Hence drysalters usually sell a number of saline substances and miscellaneous drugs. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The articles kept by a drysalter; also, the business of a drysalter. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without wetting the feet; having or keeping the feet or shoes dry; as, a land bridge over which man and beasts could have crossed dry-shod. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Constructed of uncemented stone. “Dry-stone walls.” Sir W. Scott.

n. [ Cf. OF. ambassaderie. ] Embassy. [ Obs. ] Leland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Entirely dry; withered. [ Obs. ] “A tree fordry.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Foundries [ See Foundery. ] 1. The act, process, or art of casting metals. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The buildings and works for casting metals. [ 1913 Webster ]

Foundry ladle, a vessel for holding molten metal and conveying it from cupola to the molds. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Freeze-dried; p. pr. & vb. n. Freeze-drying. ] to remove the moisture from (e.g. food) by first freezing and then subjecting to a high vacuum; -- used as a mild method for drying foods or chemicals while causing little decomposition, in contrast to heat-drying. This is a relatively gently drying process used to preserve food or sensitive biological materials. For biochemical materials, the term lyophilize is often used. [ PJC ]

n.; pl. E. Hamadryads L. Hamadryades [ L. Hamadryas, -adis, Gr. "Amadrya`s; "a`ma together + dry^s oak, tree: cf. F. hamadryade. See Same, and Tree. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Class. Myth.) A tree nymph whose life ended with that of the particular tree, usually an oak, which had been her abode. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A large venomous East Indian snake (Ophiophagus bungarus), allied to the cobras. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., a hamadryad. See Hamadryad. ] (Zool.) The sacred baboon of Egypt (Cynocephalus Hamadryas). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling. [ R. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Rashness; temerity. [ R. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]