Definition of Drying

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

Definition of Drying

1. Verb. (present participle of dry) ¹

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Definition of Drying

1. dry [v] - See also: dry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drying

dryers
dryest
dryfat
dryfats
dryfire
dryfired
dryfires
dryfiring
drygoods
drygulch
drygulched
drygulcher
drygulchers
drygulches
drygulching
drying (current term)
drying-up
drying agent
drying machine
drying machines
drying oil
drying out
drying time
drying up
dryings
dryish
dryland
dryland berry
dryland blueberry
drylands

Literary usage of Drying

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1917)
"Includes three methods of drying: sun drying, drying by artificial heat, drying by air blast. 176. Hurd, Jessie H. Preservation by drying. ..."

2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1893)
"The gas is thus thoroughly heated before entering the drying compartment. ... drying is hastened by placing an acid dish containing concentrated sulphuric ..."

3. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"The drying should be continued until the loss in weight is not more than 0.1 ... drying Ovens for Moisture Determination Samples may be dried by means of a ..."

4. A Handbook of Sugar Analysis: A Practical and Descriptive Treatise for Use by Charles Albert Browne (1912)
"Among the chief difficulties which confront the chemist in determining the moisture content of sugar products by the ordinary methods of drying, ..."

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