drie

Adjective

dry (comparative drier or dryer, superlative driest or dryest)

1. Free from or lacking moisture.
   • This towel's dry. Could you wet it and cover the chicken so it doesn't go dry as it cooks?
2. Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
   • This well is as dry as that cow.
3. Built without or lacking mortar.
   • [A]lready the gate was blocked with a wall of squared stones laid dry, but very thick and very high, across the opening.1937 September 21, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “The Gathering of the Clouds”, in The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published February 1966...
4. Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
   • Dry alcohol is 200 proof.
5. (figuratively) Athirst, eager.
   • Prospero:[…]Confederates / (ſo drie he was for Sway) with King of Naples / To giue him Annuall tribute, doe him homage / Subiect his Coronet, to his Crowne and bend / The Dukedom yet vnbow'd (alas poore Millaine) / To moſt ignoble ſtooping.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
6. Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
   • Of course it's a dry house. He was an alcoholic but he's been dry for almost a year now.

   Synonyms:

   sober

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