Word Finder - dried

definition

Without water or moisture, said of something that has previously been wet or moist; resulting from the process of drying.

definition

Usually of foods: cured, preserved by drying.

example

dried fish; dried fruit

definition

Sold raw and unprocessed.

example

dried lentils

definition

To lose moisture.

example

The clothes dried on the line.

definition

To remove moisture from.

example

Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.

definition

To be thirsty.

definition

To exhaust; to cause to run dry.

definition

For an actor to forget his or her lines while performing.

He dried his hands with the towel.

Among the rest was a dried tapeworm.

The precipitate is washed, collected, and dried at a very moderate heat.

He dried a glass carefully, studying it against the light for spots.

The British Pharmacopoeia contains (i) an extract of the fresh corm, having doses of 4 to i grain, and (2) the Vinum Colchici, made by treating the dried corm with sherry and given in doses of 10 to 30 minims. This latter is the preparation still most generally used, though the presence of veratrine both in the corm and the seeds renders the use of colchicine itself theoretically preferable.

The marshes dried up.

They knelt on a patch of dried ground in the opening of the carved alcove and examined the site.

Petya took off his wet clothes, gave them to be dried, and at once began helping the officers to fix up the dinner table.

She jerked the plug out of the sink and dried her hands.

The cake is made with dried fruit, almonds, pure butter, eggs and Jamaican rum.

They were approximately the right size but too dried and twisted to wear.

They shelter in crevices of the bark of trees, in the dried stems of herbaceous plants, or among moss and fallen leaves on the ground.

He is a pure scholastic. The great thoughts of his master - or perhaps indeed rather Leibnitz's secondary thoughts - are dried and pressed by him, labelled and catalogued.

The slices so blown up, or elevated, are passed through a mill which expels the surplus water, and are then pressed into cakes and dried until they hold about 12% of water and 88% of beet fibre.

On the shelf below are some Turkish dried apricots.

Manufactured from kiln dried redwood with high quality mortise and tenon joints and pressure treated for long life in service.

The dried rhizomes are used in Chinese and Japanese medicines for treating a range of ailments.

Well basically they are fully ripened plums which have been dried to remove most of the water.

Medieval Europeans burnt sprigs of dried rosemary to drive out evil spirits from people or places.

One tip; sage is excellent for hot flushes - make a cup of tea out of dried sage.

This is often mistaken as dried seaweed but is actually the remains of a colony of tiny animals called bryozoan.

Between the long grasses there are small plots of land dotted with tin shacks roofed with dried palm branches.

Few of our cases were cut and dried.

The town is noted for its fruit, especially its vines; and it exports tissues, carpets, hides, yellow berries and dried fruit.

After the vigorous reaction has ceased and all the sodium has been used up, the mass is thrown into dilute hydrochloric acid, when the soluble sodium salts go into solution, and the insoluble boron remains as a brown powder, which may by filtered off and dried.

The mallee scrub appears like a forest of dried osier, growing so close that it is not always easy to ride through it.

It is then carefully dried by the free action of the air, and when dry built into long narrow stacks until needed for use.

Timber is largely imported from the United States, Sweden and Russia; coal from Great Britain; dried codfish from Norway and Newfoundland.

The apparently structureless substance is saturated with it; and if once a cell is completely dried, even at a low temperature, in the enormous majority of cases its life iS gone and the restoration of water fails to enable it to recover.

Several species of Dermestidae are commonly found in houses, feeding on cheeses, dried meat, skins and other such substances.

According to Sharp, all Dermestid larvae probably feed on dried animal matters; he mentions one species that can find sufficient food in the horsehair of furniture, and another that eats the dried insect-skins hanging in old cobwebs.

It contains breweries, tanneries, sugar, tobacco, cloth, and silk factories, and exports skins, cloth, cocoons, cereals, attar of roses, "dried fruit, &c. Sofia forms the centre of a railway system radiating to Constantinople (300 m.), Belgrade (206 m.) and central Europe, Varna, Rustchuk and the Danube, and Kiustendil near the Macedonian frontier.

Owing to its excellent harbour Baku is a chief depot for merchandise coming from Persia and Transcaspia - raw cotton, silk, rice, wine, fish, dried fruit and timber - and for Russian manufactured goods.

The imports, which consist chiefly of machinery, fruits (dried and fresh), wie, oil and textiles, do not much exceed half a million sterling annually.

Harrison in 1899 found the lake quite dried up, and two years later Count Wickenburg found water only in the northern part.

The mollusc itself is often eaten, and dried for consumption in China and Japan.

The last-named lake has now been almost entirely dried up by the cutting of a channel, which conducts its feeders directly to the Orontes.

More, who knew her in old age when she was "lean, withered and dried up," says that in youth she was "proper and fair, nothing in her body that you would have changed, but if you would have wished her somewhat higher."

The sphere is then coated with plaster or whiting, and when it has been smoothed on a lathe and dried, the lines representing meridians and parallels are drawn upon it.

The sheet was finally hammered and dried in the sun.

This second manufacture, however, is thought to have been detrimental to the papyrus, as it would then have been in a dried condition requiring artificial aids, such as a more liberal use of gum or paste, in the process.

When the root-leaves and roots present any peculiarities, they should invariably be collected, but the roots should be dried separately in an oven at a moderate heat.

Scale-mosses are mounted in the same way, or may be floated out in water like sea-weeds, and dried in white blotting paper under strong pressure before gumming on paper, but are best mounted as microscopic slides, care being taken to show the stipules.

But the Peckhams' careful observations and experiments show that, with the American wasps, the victims stored in the nests are quite as often dead as alive; that those which are only paralysed live for a varying number of days, some more, some less; that wasp larvae thrive just as well on dead victims, sometimes dried up, sometimes undergoing decomposition, as on living and paralysed prey; that the nerve-centres are not stung with the supposed uniformity; and that in some cases paralysis, in others death, follows when the victims are stung in parts far removed from any nerve-centre.

In general, the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina are sober and thrifty, subsisting chiefly on Indian corn, dried meat, milk and vegetables.

Several of the bazaars are vaulted over with brickwork, but the greater number are merely covered with flat beams which support roofs of dried leaves or branches of trees and grass.

It supports a fishing population of over 30,000, most of whom are Annamese; the fish, which are taken by means of large nets at the end of the inundation, are either dried or fermented for the production of the sauce known as nuoc-mam.

Rice, dried fish, beans, pepper and oxen are the chief elements in the export trade of the country, which is in the hands of Chinese.

A considerable trade is carried on in the export of horses, buffaloes, goats, dinding (dried flesh), skins, birds' nests, wax, rice, katyang, sappanwood, &c. Sumbawa entered into treaty relations with the Dutch East India Company in 1674.

Its principal imports are coffee (of which it is the greatest continental market), tea, sugar, spices, rice, wine (especially from Bordeaux), lard (from Chicago), cereals, sago, dried fruits, herrings, wax (from Morocco and Mozambique), tobacco, hemp, cotton (which of late years shows a large increase), wool, skins, leather, oils, dyewoods, indigo, nitrates, phosphates and coal.