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dry 1. having little or no rainfall 2. not providing milk 3. (of a wine, cider, etc.) not sweet 4. Pathol not accompanied by or producing a mucous or watery discharge 5. Electronics (of a soldered electrical joint) imperfect because the solder has not adhered to the metal, thus reducing conductance 6. Brit informal a Conservative politician who is considered to be a hard-liner 7. the dry Austral informal the dry season 8. US and Canadian an informal word for prohibitionist dry [drī] (science and technology) Free from or deficient in moisture. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Its gags are as dry as dust, eschewing the gut-rattling guffaws to which network sitcoms aspire. The "incident" of Prague, 1968, comes off in this book as dry as dust. It's a quirk of nature, whereby storms rolling in off the California coast lose much of their moisture over the Nevada and Utah deserts, and when snow begins falling here it's usually as dry as dust. |
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