Word Finder - drying

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To lose moisture.

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The clothes dried on the line.

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To remove moisture from.

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Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.

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To be thirsty.

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To exhaust; to cause to run dry.

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

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The act of drying.

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A method of food preservation by removing water.

They're still outside drying.

Just as the glue was drying on the small wooden cross, a noise at the front door announced the arrival of the sisters from Boston.

Many smaller streams discharge into the Paraguay and Parana from the west, some of them wholly dependent upon the rains, and drying up during long droughts.

NecrosisA number of diseases the obvious symptoms of which are the local drying up and death of tissues, in many cases with secondary results on organs or parts of organs, may be brought together under this heading.

In the northern part of Corrientes there is a large area of swamps and shallow lagoons which are believed to be slowly drying up.

The disease is due to poisoning by micro-organisms produced by deteriorated maize, and can be combated by care in ripening, drying and storing the maize.

It has been found to lose about 8% of its weight by drying.

A contemporaneous effort in the direction of drying hay by artificial means led to nothing of practical importance.

It was a small number of monkish communities whose care of those narrow channels prevented their ever drying up altogether.

Fresh slurry is run on to the drying floors, and the kiln is started.

On drying it has the composition TIO(OH).

Later that evening, Fred came down to the kitchen as Martha was finishing drying the dishes.

In 1882, at Reading, a gold medal was given for a cream separator for horse power, whilst a prize of roo guineas offered for the most efficient and most economical method of drying hay or corn crops artificially, either before or after being stacked, was not awarded.

Stannic sulphide, SnS 2, is obtained by heating a mixture of tin (or, better, tin amalgam), sulphur and sal-ammoniac in proper proportions in the beautiful form of aurum musivum (mosaic gold) - a solid consisting of golden yellow, metallic lustrous scales, and used chiefly as a yellow "bronze" for plaster-of-Paris statuettes, &c. The yellow precipitate of stannic sulphide obtained by adding sulphuretted hydrogen to a stannic solution readily dissolves in solutions of the alkaline sulphides to form thiostannates of the formula M 2 SnS 31 the free acid, H2SnS3, may be obtained as an almost black powder by drying the yellow precipitate formed when hydrochloric acid is added to a solution of a thiostannate.

The setting of the mortar is due to the drying of the lime (a purely physical phenomenon, no chemical action occurring between the lime and the sand).

Linseed oil, the most valuable drying oil, is obtained by expression from the seeds, with or without the aid of heat.

Except by smell, by change of specific gravity, and by deterioration of drying properties, these adulterations are difficult to detect.

The various operations through which the crop passes from this point till flax ready for the market is produced are - (i) Pulling, (2) Rippling, (3) Retting, (4) Drying, (5) Rolling, (6) Scutching.

The drying, which takes from a week to a fortnight, must be uniform, so that all the fibres may spin equally well.

The substance is best prepared by drying ethyl acetate over calcium chloride and treating it with sodium wire, which is best introduced in one operation; the liquid boils and is then heated on a water bath for some hours, until the sodium all dissolves.

It is also thought that the drying of the plants before retting facilitates the separation of the fibre.

A plant four years old will yield 16 lb of fresh root, and a well-grown one from 32 to 64 lb, but more than half the weight is lost in drying.

Drying by exposure to the air for a month has been found to prevent their germination.

In view, therefore, of the probable decline in the Chinese demand, the cultivation of the drug for the European market in the hilly districts of India, and its preparation after the mode adopted in Turkey, viz., by drying the concrete juice as quickly as possible, might be worthy of the consideration of the British government.

For the Chinese market the opium is usually packed in chests containing 102 shahmans (of 131 Ib), so that on arrival it may weigh 1 Chinese picul (=1331 lb), 5 to io% being allowed for loss by drying.

The apparatus for drying ore and salt varies greatly, drying-floors, dry-kilns and continuous mechanical reverberatory furnaces with stationary and revolving hearths being used.

The physiography of the surrounding country shows clearly that the basin occupied by Great Salt Lake is one of many left by the drying up of a large Pleistocene lake, which has been called lake Bonneville.

The persistent bracts (glume and pale) afford an additional protection to the fruit; they protect the embryo, which is near the surface, from too rapid wetting and, when once soaked, from drying up again.

Linoleic acid, C18H3202, found as glyceride in drying oils, and ricinoleic acid, C18H33(OH)02, found as glyceride in castor oil, closely resemble oleic acid.

The barren " mud flats," frequently found on the desert floor, result from the drying up of temporary shallow lakes, or playas.

Another method consists in mixing the powdered bark with milk of lime, drying the mass slowly with frequent stirring, exhausting the powder with boiling alcohol, removing the excess of alcohol by distillation, adding sufficient dilute sulphuric acid to dissolve the alkaloid and throw down colouring matter and traces of lime, &c., filtering, and allowing the neutralized liquid to deposit crystals.

The walls thus supported no load but their own weight, and were tied to the inner cage formed by the wall columns, interior columns, girders, and floors by anchors arranged to provide for the shrinkage of masonry in drying out which always occurs to a greater or less extent.

Drying is retarded, and the contraction due to a given degree of drying is greatly reduced, by the presence of sand and small stones among the clay.

It is at least several centuries since covered channels of various kinds were used by British husbandmen for drying their land.

A soluble carbonate and a ferric salt give a precipitate which loses carbon dioxide on drying.

It fills a shallow depression which is drying up with astonishing rapidity, so that the process of desiccation can be shown on surveys separated by intervals of only ten years; large parts of it, like Aibughir Gulf, have dried up since the Russians took possession of its shores.

The new ones are built of steel, operated by steam or electricity, protected from fire by pneumatic water-pipes, and have complete machinery for drying and scouring the wheat whenever it is necessary.

The principal colony has its summer quarters on the Stora-Lule Lake, possesses good boats and nets, and, besides catching and drying fish, makes money by the shooting of wild fowl and the gathering of eggs.

Thus the buildings forming the residence of a well-to-do farmer of the bo-aire class as described in the Laws, consisted of a living-house in which he slept and took his meals, a cookinghouse, a kiln for drying corn, a barn, a byre for calves, a sheepfold and a pigsty.

The curing of hides, the catching and drying of fish, boat-building, and especially the weaving of cotton into cloths called "pagns," afford employment to a considerable number of persons.

On removing, washing and gently drying the metal and heating it in a glass tube, a white crystalline sublimate is formed on the cool part of the tube; under the same conditions antimony does not produce a crystalline sublimate.

Such a drying up has been in progress during long geologic ages, but doubt exists as to its practical importance at the present time.

All, except possibly Mweru, are more or less shallow, and Chad appears to by drying up. The altitudes of the African lakes have already been stated.

The water then freezes in virtue of the cold produced by its own evaporation or by the drying of the moistened wrapper.

The two last-named glycerides are characteristic of the semidrying and drying oils respectively.

Drying fats.

The specific gravities of most non-drying oils lie between 0.916 and 0.920, and of most semi-drying oil y between 0.920 and 0.925, whereas the drying oils have specific gravities of about 0.930.

In their liquid state oils and fats easily penetrate into the pores of dry substances; on paper they leave a translucent spot - "grease spot" - which cannot be removed by washing with water and subsequent drying.

The drying oils absorb oxygen somewhat rapidly and dry to a film or skin, especially if exposed in a thin layer.

The semi-drying oils absorb oxygen more slowly than the drying oils, and are, therefore, useless as paint oils.