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Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room.

An exposure to air, or to a fire, for warming, drying, etc.; as, the airing of linen, or of a room.

The act of drying, or the state of growing dry. The arefaction of the earth. Sir M. Hale.

The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.

or fancy-work; zephyr worsted; -- called also Berlin wool. Berlin black, a black varnish, drying with almost a dead surface; -- used for coating the better kinds of ironware. Ure. -- Berlin blue, Prussian blue. Ure. -- Berlin green, a complex cyanide of iron, used as a green dye, and similar to Prussian blue. -- Ber…

ng of salt water. -- Leach brine (Saltmaking), brine which drops from granulated salt in drying, and is preserved to be boiled again.

A wooden frame or grid for roasting, smoking, or drying meat over fire.

(C. frutescens) with small and intensely pungent fruit. (b) A very pungent spice made by drying and grinding the fruits or seeds of several species of the genus Capsicum, esp. C. annuum and C. Frutescens; -- Called also red pepper. It is used chiefly as a condiment.

To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.

A hop-drying kiln; an oast. Knight.

To grow firm and hard; to unite and become solid; as, moist clay consolidates by drying. In hurts and ulcers of the head, dryness maketh them more apt to consolidate. Bacon.

A fixed, semidrying oil extracted from cottonseed. It is pale yellow when pure (sp. gr., .92-.93). and is extensively used in soap making, in cookery, and as an adulterant of other oils.

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

e slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep.

To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.

One who prepares beef, fish, etc., for preservation by drying, salting, smoking, etc.

Drying; desiccative. -- n.

To dry up; to deprive or exhaust of moisture; to preserve by drying; as, to desiccate fish or fruit. Bodies desiccated by heat or age. Bacon.

Drying; tending to dry. Ferrand. -- n. (Med.)

Drying oil; a substance mingled with the oil used in oil painting to make it dry quickly.