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

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

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.

tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp. The Assyrians appear to have made much less use of bricks baked in the furnace than the Babylonians. Layard.

Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun. Burnt ear, a black, powdery fungus which destroys grain. See Smut. -- Burnt offering, something offered and burnt on an altar, as an atonement for sin; a sacrifice. The offerings of the Jews were a clean…

A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America. McElrath.

melt, found on the north Pacific coast; -- called also eulachon. It is so oily that, when dried, it may be used as a candle, by drawing a wick through it.

e same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine.

A tierce or cask for dried fruits, etc., usually about 700 lbs. Simmonds.