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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.

A thick plank, used for several mechanical purposes; especially:

Same as Quadrennial.

Dried by the heat of the sun. "Sun-dried brick." Sir T. Herbert.

Many different or small things; sundry things.

An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.

The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried. [Obs.] Harvey.

A frame on which clothes are aired or dried.

A condiment formed of small fishes or shrimps, pounded up with salt and spices, and then dried. It is much esteemed in China.

The bully tree (Minusops globosa); also, its milky juice (balata gum), which when dried constitutes an elastic gum called chicle, or chicle gum.

A floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried.

us bean, or St. Ignatius's bean (Bot.), a species of Strychnos. -- Navy bean, the common dried white bean of commerce; probably so called because an important article of food in the navy. -- Pea bean, a very small and highly esteemed variety of the edible white bean; -- so called from its size. -- Sacred bean. See u…

An astringent and narcotic drug made from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication. See Hasheesh.

A baked apple pressed down into a flat, round cake; a dried apple. Dickens.

Lean meat cut into strips and sun-dried. H. R. Haggard.

The common herring, esp. when of large size, smoked, and half dried; -- called also bloat herring.

lier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway. Most of the branches , or streams, were dried up. W. Irving.