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- Drying - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Dry
- Drying - a. - Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room.
- Drying - a. - Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry.
- Hake - n. - A drying shed, as for unburned tile.
- Stove - n. - A house or room artificially warmed or heated; a forcing house, or hothouse; a drying room; -- formerly, designating an artificially warmed dwelling or room, a parlor, or a bathroom, but now restricted, in this sense, to heated houses or rooms used for horticultural purposes or in the processes of the arts.
- Desiccant - n. - A medicine or application for drying up a sore.
- Desiccative - n. - An application for drying up secretions.
- Insolation - n. - The act or process to exposing to the rays of the sun fro the purpose of drying or maturing, as fruits, drugs, etc., or of rendering acid, as vinegar.
- Hydro-extractor - n. - An apparatus for drying anything, as yarn, cloth, sugar, etc., by centrifugal force; a centrifugal.
- Exsiccant - a. - Having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up.
- Insiccation - n. - The act or process of drying in.
- Exsiccator - n. - 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.
- Scab - n. - An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.
- Evaporator - n. - An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat.
- Hothouse - n. - A heated room for drying green ware.
- Season - v. t. - Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices; as, to season timber.
- Drying - a. - Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room.
- Squilgee - n. - Formerly, a small swab for drying a vessel's deck; now, a kind of scraper having a blade or edge of rubber or of leather, -- used for removing superfluous, water or other liquids, as from a vessel's deck after washing, from window panes, photographer's plates, etc.
- Baking - n. - The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.
- Ustulation - n. - The roasting or drying of moist substances so as prepare them for pulverizing.
- Torrid - a. - Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching.
- Flake - n. - A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
- Staddle - v. i. - A row of dried or drying hay, etc.
- Infumation - n. - Act of drying in smoke.
- Gloom - n. - In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.
- Scrap - v. t. - The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat; as, pork scraps.
- Kiln - n. - A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone.