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Droughty   Listen
adjective
Droughty  adj.  
1.
Characterized by drought; wanting rain; arid; adust. "Droughty and parched countries."
2.
Dry; thirsty; wanting drink. "Thy droughty throat."





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"Droughty" Quotes from Famous Books



... possessed of a penny was ever known to pass in warm weather. Before its entrance, are certain pleasant, trimmed limes; likewise, a cool well, with so musical a bucket-handle that its fall upon the bucket rim will make a horse prick up his ears and neigh, upon the droughty road half a mile off. This is a house of great resort for haymaking tramps and harvest tramps, insomuch that as they sit within, drinking their mugs of beer, their relinquished scythes and reaping-hooks glare out of the open windows, ...
— The Uncommercial Traveller • Charles Dickens
... of the most insignificant brushfire are beyond the exact wisdom of man. Especially in droughty weather. When they knocked off work for the day, the two laborers had gone back to the blaze beyond the tool-house and conscientiously had scattered and stamped on its last visible remnants. The Master, too, coming home from ...
— Further Adventures of Lad • Albert Payson Terhune


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