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Dried dung of cattle used as fuel. [Prov. Eng.] Waterland.

Jerked beef; beef cut into long strips and dried in the wind and sun. Darwin.

Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously.

ated. Its solution is used for a sympathetic ink, the writing being nearly colorless when dried in the air, owing to absorbed moisture, and becoming bright blue when warmed.

The dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon Coca). In med., called Erythroxylon.

A dyestuff consisting of the dried bodies of females of the Coccus cacti, an insect native in Mexico, Central America, etc., and found on several species of cactus, esp. Opuntia cochinellifera.

. It is especially abundant and large on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland. It is salted and dried in large quantities.

A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection.

The dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil is expressed. [Written also cobra, copperah, coppra.]

tone and pressed out into cords (of various diameters) resembling brown twine, which are dried and cut to length. A variety containing less nitroglycerin than the original is known as cordite M. D.

To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire clotch mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.

Dried cow dung used as fuel.[Prov. Eng.] Simmonds.

A hard mass, made up of dried secretions blood, or pus, occurring upon the surface of the body.

inalis), native in Java and Borneo, but now cultivated in various tropical countries. The dried unripe fruit is much used in medicine as a stimulant and purgative.

ything is cured; especially, in the West Indies, a building in which sugar is drained and dried.

Overcome by liquor; tipsy. [Slang] Cut and dried, prepered beforehand; not spontaneous. -- Cut glass, glass having a surface ground and polished in facets or figures. -- Cut nail, a nail cut by machinery from a rolled plate of iron, in distinction from a wrought nail. -- Cut stone, stone hewn or chiseled to shape af…

o divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull. "Great barley dried and decorticated." Arbuthnot.

agent, as sulphuric acid or calcium chloride, above which is suspended the material to be dried, or preserved from moisture.

The dried leaves of the purple foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), used in heart disease, disturbance of the circulation, etc.

prive utterly of water; to consume. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. Is. v. 13. The water of the sea, which formerly covered it, was in time exhaled and dried up by the sun. Woodward.