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Covered or supplied with drapery. [R.] Byron.

To endure. [Obs.] So causeless such drede for to drie. Chaucer.

of Day. Also adj.; as, dried apples.

One who, or that which, dries; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative; as, the sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth.

of Dry, a.

Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety. "Ruinous ebriety." Cowper.

A stable.

Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories. She whose elfin prancer springs By night to eery warblings. Tennyson.

See Aerie, and Eyrie.

To grieve. [Obs.] Spenser.

A woman skilled in equestrianism; a horsewoman.

Inclined to eat; hungry; voracious. [R.] Bailey. "Poor, but esurient." Carlyle.

Exciting nutrition; said of the reflex influence by which the nutritional processes are either excited or modified.

Trial, as a test or experiment. [Obs.] She caused him to make experience Upon wild beasts. Spenser.

A table of mortality computed from the experience of one or more life-insurance companies.

peated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye. The ablest and most experienced statesmen. Bancroft.

One who experiences.

Experienced. [Obs.] The prince now ripe and full experient. Beau & Fl.

Derived from, or pertaining to, experience. Coleridge. It is called empirical or experiential . . . because it is divan to us by experience or observation, and not obtained as the result of inference or reasoning. Sir. W. Hamiltion. -- Ex*pe`ri*en"tial*ly, adv. DR. H. More.

The doctrine that experience, either that ourselves or of others, is the test or criterion of general knowledge; -- opposed to intuitionists. Experientialism is in short, a philosophical or logical theory, not a philosophical one. G. C. Robertson.