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Dry v. t. (past & past part. dried; pres. part. drying) To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay.

To dry up.

(a)

To scorch or parch with thirst; to deprive utterly of water; to consume. "Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst." "The water of the sea, which formerly covered it, was in time exhaled and dried up by the sun."

(b)

To make to cease, as a stream of talk. "Their sources of revenue were dried up."

To dry a cow, or To dry up a cow, to cause a cow to cease secreting milk.

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"Dry up" Quotes from Famous Books

... old Sechard a lesson," he said. "He is the kind of man that will never forgive his son for costing him a thousand francs or so; the outlay will dry up any generous thoughts in his mind, ...

— Lost Illusions • Honore De Balzac

... was unable to leave the coast, in spite of a good breeze: she seemed bewitched. Some of the the slaves finally told the captain there was a negress on board who had enchanted the ship, and who had the power to "dry up the hearts" of all who refused to obey her. A number of deaths taking place among the blacks, the captain ordered autopsies made, and it was found that the hearts of the dead negroes were desiccated. The negress was taken on deck, ...

— Two Years in the French West Indies • Lafcadio Hearn

... we can do," he said. "It will just dry up and fall to pieces up here; we'll let it down over the rock by the ropes and leave it in the pool. Then when Angus finds it, he'll be perfectly sure he was bewitched and be more afraid ...

— The Scotch Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins

... that,—said I.—Only I rather think life can coin thought somewhat faster than I can count it off in words. What if one shall go round and dry up with soft napkins all the dew that falls of a June evening on the leaves of his garden? Shall there be no more dew on those leaves thereafter? Marry, yea,—many drops, large and round and full of moonlight as those thou shalt ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 15, January, 1859 • Various

... me no one shall ever learn how to practise villainy. For when my heart went over to you it presented you with the body too, and it made a pledge that none other should ever share in it. Love for you has wounded me so deep that I should never recover from it, any more than the sea can dry up. If I love you, and you love me, you shall never be called Tristan, nor I Iseut; [237] for then our love would not be honourable. But I make you this promise, that you shall never have other joy of me than that you now have, unless you can devise some means whereby ...

— Four Arthurian Romances - "Erec et Enide", "Cliges", "Yvain", and "Lancelot" • Chretien de Troyes

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