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o designate the silver currency of the Mogul emperors, or the Indian rupee of 192 grains. Sicca rupee, an East Indian coin, valued nominally at about two shillings sterling, or fifty cents.

To dry. [R.]

The act or process of drying. [R.] Bailey.

Drying; causing to dry. -- n.

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.

The act of desiccating, or the state of being desiccated.

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

One who, or that which, desiccates.

Desiccative.

An exsiccant medicine.

To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up. Sir T. Browne.

The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture; state of being dried up; dryness. Sir T. Browne.

Tending to make dry; having the power of drying.

An apparatus for drying substances or preserving them from moisture; a desiccator; also, less frequently, an agent employed to absorb moisture, as calcium chloride, or concentrated sulphuric acid.

The act or process of drying in.

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.

To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay. To dry up. (a) To scorch or parch with thirst; to deprive utterly of water; to consume. Their honorable men are famished, and…

See Exsiccate. [Obs.] Holland.

See Exsiccation. [Obs.]