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A kind of dried sausage. McElrath.

), a name popularly given to several diseases of the scalp characterized by pustules (the dried discharge of which forms scales) and by falling out of the hair.

To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up. Scatter a little mungy straw or fern amongst your seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching. Mortimer.

A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly. Gwilt.

ilicic acid (Chem.), an amorphous gelatinous substance, Si(HO)4, very unstable and easily dried to silica, but forming many stable salts; -- called also orthosilicic, or normal silicic, acid.

Slackly; as, slack dried hops.

To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. Howitt. He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water. De Quincey.

One who dries or preserves by smoke.

A haddock or other small fish split open and dried in the sun; -- called also speldron. [Scot.]

Pyrotechnical sponge, a substance made of mushrooms or fungi, which are boiled in water, dried, and beaten, then put in a strong lye prepared with saltpeter, and again dried in an oven. This makes the black match, or tinder, brought from Germany. -- Sheep's-wool sponge, a fine and durable commercial sponge (Spongia e…

A row of dried or drying hay, etc. [Eng.]

used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.

Abounding in stems, or mixed with stems; -- said of tea, dried currants, etc. [Colloq.]

Salted and dried fish, especially codfish, hake, ling, and torsk; also, codfish dried without being salted.

ged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments. "A string of islands." Gibbon.

he hand gently over by way of expressing kindness or tenderness; to caress; to soothe. He dried the falling drops, and, yet more kind, He stroked her cheeks. Dryden.

One who deals in sundries, or a variety of articles.

Sticky; adhesive; raw; -- said of paint, varnish, etc., when not well dried. [U. S.]

(Agric.) Waste matter from tanks; esp., the dried nitrogenous residue from tanks in which fat has been rendered, used as a fertilizer.

ence, a necklace in general. [Obs.] Of which the Naiads and the blue Nereids make Them tawdries for their necks. Drayton.