2. Verb. (third-person singular of dry) ¹
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Definition of Dries
1. dry [v] - See also: dry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dries
Literary usage of Dries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"... which follows at first their progression, being elongated with them, and
finally dries up as the barbs shoot forth, and becomes divided into very fine ..."
2. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1887)
"Some of the minor marshes are mere swamps, the beds of which are to a great extent
cultivated with rice as the water dries up in the winter months. ..."
3. Things Chinese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with China by James Dyer Ball (1893)
"... must be fresh and damp, for it is under such conditions that the lacquer dries
most quickly. It next receives a polishing with a kind of soft schist. ..."
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