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(b) To make to cease, as a stream of talk.

Their sources of revenue were dried up.

Jowett (Thucyd. )

-- To dry, or dry up, a cow, to cause a cow to cease secreting milk. Tylor.

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

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

3. To shrivel or wither; to lose vitality.

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.

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

||Dry*an"dra (?), n. [NL. Named after J. Dryander.] (Bot.) A genus of shrubs growing in Australia, having beautiful, hard, dry, evergreen leaves.

||Dry"as (?), n.; pl. Dryades (#). [L. See Dryad.] (Class. Myth.) A dryad.

Dry"-beat` (?), v. t. To beat severely. Shak.

Dry"-boned` (?), a. Having dry bones, or bones without flesh.

Dry" dock` (?). (Naut.) See under Dock.

Dry"er (?), n. See Drier. Sir W. Temple.

Dry"-eyed` (?), a. Not having tears in the eyes.

Dry"-fist`ed (?), a. Niggardly.

Dry"foot (?), n. The scent of the game, as far as it can be traced. [Obs.] Shak.

Dry" goods` (?). A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries. [U.S.]

Dry"ing, a. 1. Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room.

2. Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry.

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.

Dry"ly, adv. In a dry manner; not succulently; without interest; without sympathy; coldly.

Dry"ness, n. The state of being dry. See Dry.

Dry" nurse` (?). A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; -- in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it.

Dry"nurse`, v. t. To feed, attend, and bring up without the breast. Hudibras.

||Dry`o*bal"a*nops (?), 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 D. Camphora, a lofty resinous tree of Borneo and Sumatra, yielding Borneo camphor and camphor oil.