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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Adjective and noun from Middle English drye, dryge, drüȝe, from Old English drȳġe (“dry; parched, withered”), from Proto-West Germanic *drūgī, *draugī, from Proto-Germanic *drūgiz, *draugiz (“dry, hard”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“to strengthen; become hard”), from *dʰer- (“to hold, support”).
Verb from Middle English drien, from Old English drȳġan (“to dry”), from Proto-West Germanic *drūgijan, from Proto-Germanic *drūgiz (“hard, desiccated, dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“strong, hard, solid”).
cognates and related terms
Cognate with Scots dry, drey (“dry”), North Frisian drüg, driig, Saterland Frisian druuch (“dry”), West Frisian droech (“dry”), Dutch droog (“dry”), Low German dröög (“dry”), German dröge (“dull”), Icelandic draugur (“a dry log”). Related also to German trocken (“dry”), West Frisian drege (“long-lasting”), Danish drøj (“tough”), Swedish dryg (“lasting, hard”), Icelandic drjúgur (“ample, long”), Latin firmus (“strong, firm, stable, durable”). See also drought, drain, dree.
Pronunciation
Adjective
dry (comparative drier or dryer, superlative driest or dryest)
- 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?
1716 March 16 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 22. Monday, March 5. ”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; , volume IV, London: Jacob Tonson, , published 1721, →OCLC:The weather, […] we […] both agreed, was too dry for the season.
- Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
- Hyponym: non-milch
This well is as dry as that cow.
- (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
1937 September 21, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again, 3rd edition, London: Unwin Books, George Allen & Unwin, published 1966 (1970 printing), →ISBN, page 241:[…] already the gate was blocked with a wall of squared stones laid dry, but very thick and very high, across the opening.
- (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
Dry alcohol is 200 proof.
- (figurative) Athirst, eager.
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :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.
- 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.
c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
- (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
You'll have to drive out of this dry county to find any liquor.
- Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:
- (wine and other alcoholic beverages, ginger ale) Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
Proper martinis are made with London dry gin and dry vermouth.
1983, Lorenzo Semple Jr., Never Say Never Again:Fatima Blush: Oh, how reckless of me. I made you all wet.
James Bond: Yes, but my martini is still dry. My name is James.
- (humor) Amusing without showing amusement.
Steven Wright has a deadpan delivery, Norm Macdonald has a dry sense of humor, and Oscar Wilde had a dry wit.
- Lacking interest, boring.
A dry lecture may require the professor to bring a water gun in order to keep the students' attention.
c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 2:Mr. Evans naturally does not see things in a dry light. He has the dramatic instinct, and impresses it on all he touches.
- (poker) Of a board or flop: Not permitting the creation of many or of strong hands.
Jake was hoping to make something good out of his suited 7-8 hand, but the flop came out dry: 2-5-10 rainbow, and all of the wrong suit!.
- (fine arts) Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
- (aviation) Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
This fighter jet's engine has a maximum dry thrust of 200 kilonewtons.
- (sciences, somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
- (of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
- Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
never dry fire a bow
1958, Gordon Grimley, The Book of the Bow, page 167:A loose nocking point is equally dangerous since it may result in what is known as a 'dry release' when the arrow merely falls from a string a few feet away as the bow is shot. This may distort or weaken the bow.
1992, Pennsylvania Game News, volume 63, page 57:[…] most like "dry firing," or a dry release, wherein the string meets no resistance.
1992, Dwight R. Schuh, Bowhunter's Encyclopedia, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 81:When you shoot a bow, the arrow absorbs a high percentage of the energy released by the limbs. If you dry fire a bow (shoot it with no arrow on the string), the bow itself absorbs all the energy, […]
2015, Naoko Takei Moore, Kyle Connaughton, Donabe: Classic and Modern Japanese Clay Pot Cooking, Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 8:Because some recipes require specific techniques such as high-intensity dry heating (heating while the pot is empty or heating with little or no fluid inside), read the manufacturer's instructions to ensure your vessel can handle such cooking […]
- Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.
- (Christianity) Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of "free from liquid or moisture"): See Thesaurus:wet
- (antonym(s) of "abstinent from or banning alcohol"): wet
- (antonym(s) of "not using afterburners or water injection"): wet
- (antonym(s) of "of a scientist or lab: doing computation"): wet
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
free from liquid or moisture
- Aasax: rakaš
- Afrikaans: dor
- Albanian: i thatë (sq)
- Amharic: ደረቅ (däräḳ)
- Andi: бекъуб (beqˣʼub)
- Arabic: جَاف (jāf)
- Egyptian Arabic: ناشف (nāšif)
- Hijazi Arabic: جَاف (jāf), نَاشِف (nāšif)
- Armenian: չոր (hy) (čʻor)
- Aromanian: uscat, sicat, sec
- Assamese: শুকান (xukan)
- Asturian: secu (ast)
- Avar: бакъвараб (baqxʷʼarab)
- Azerbaijani: quru (az)
- Balinese: garing
- Bashkir: ҡоро (qoro)
- Basque: lehor
- Belarusian: сухі́ (suxí)
- Bikol Central: mamara
- Bouyei: raangx
- Breton: sec'h (br)
- Brunei Malay: karing
- Bulgarian: сух (bg) (suh)
- Burmese: ခြောက် (my) (hkrauk)
- Buryat: хуурай (xuuraj)
- Carpathian Rusyn: сухый (suxŷj)
- Catalan: eixut (ca), sec (ca)
- Cebuano: uga, maa
- Chamicuro: poshewa
- Chechen: декъа (deqʼa)
- Chickasaw: shila
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 乾/干 (gon1)
- Mandarin: 乾/干 (zh) (gān), 乾燥/干燥 (zh) (gānzào)
- Cornish: segh
- Czech: suchý (cs) m
- Dalmatian: sot
- Danish: tør (da)
- Dutch: droog (nl)
- Erzya: коське (kośke)
- Esperanto: seka (eo)
- Estonian: kuiv (et)
- Evenki: олгокин (olgokin)
- Farefare: kɛ'ɛŋa
- Faroese: turrur (fo)
- Finnish: kuiva (fi)
- French: sec (fr)
- Friulian: sut, sec
- Gagauz: kuru
- Galician: enxoito (gl) m, seco (gl) m
- Georgian: გამშრალი (gamšrali), მშრალი (mšrali)
- German: trocken (de)
- Gothic: 𐌸𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍃𐌿𐍃 (þaursus)
- Greek: στεγνός (el) m (stegnós), ξηρός (el) m (xirós)
- Ancient: ξηρός m (xērós), αὖος m (aûos)
- Haitian Creole: sèk, chèch
- Hebrew: יָבֵשׁ (he) (yavésh)
- Higaonon: gango
- Hindi: सूखा (hi) (sūkhā)
- Hungarian: száraz (hu)
- Hunsrik: drock
- Icelandic: þurr (is)
- Ido: sika (io)
- Ilocano: namaga
- Indonesian: kering (id)
- Ingrian: kuiva
- Ingush: дакъа (daqʼa)
- Iranun: please add this translation if you can
- Irish: tirim
- Isan: please add this translation if you can
- Isnag: maxa
- Italian: secco (it), asciutto (it)
- Japanese: 乾いた (ja) (かわいた, kawaita)
- Javanese: garing (jv)
- Kabuverdianu: kran
- Kalmyk: хүүрә (xüürä)
- Kapampangan: malangi
- Kashubian: sëchi
- Khmer: ស្ងួត (km) (snguət), ក្រៀម (km) (kriəm)
- Komi-Zyrian: кос (kos)
- Korean: 마른 (ko) (mareun), 건 (ko) (geon)
- Kumyk: къуру (quru)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: وشک (wişk)
- Laki: ھوِشک (hwişk)
- Northern Kurdish: hişk (ku)
- Southern Kurdish: وِشک (ku) (wişk)
- Kyrgyz: кур (ky) (kur)
- Ladakhi: སྐམ་པོ (skam po)
- Lao: ແຫ້ງ (ngǣ)
- Latgalian: sauss m, trosks m
- Latin: siccus, aridus (la)
- Latvian: sauss (lv)
- Lithuanian: sausas
- Low German: dröög, drög
- Lü: ᦶᦠᧂᧉ (ḣaeng²), ᦃᦱᧃᧈ (ẋaan¹)
- Luxembourgish: dréchen
- Macedonian: сув (suv)
- Maguindanao: nagangu
- Malay: kering (ms)
- Malayalam: ഉണങ്ങിയ (uṇaṅṅiya)
- Manchu: ᠣᠯᡥᠣᠨ (olhon)
- Manx: çhirrym
- Maore Comorian: -kavu
- Maranao: kamara, mara, mamara, gango, magango
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: кукшо (kukšo)
- Western Mari: кукшы (kukšy)
- Minangkabau: karieng, tuhua (min)
- Mokilese: enggeng
- Moksha: коське (kośke)
- Mon: please add this translation if you can
- Mongolian: хуурай (mn) (xuuraj)
- Moore: koɛɛnga
- Nanai: холгокто (holgokto)
- Navajo: yíłtseii
- Nepali: सुक्खा (sukkhā), सुख्खा (sukhkhā)
- Norman: sé
- Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: tørr (no)
- Occitan: sec (oc)
- Odia: ଶୁଷ୍କ (or) (śuṣkô)
- Old English: dryġe
- Old Norse: þurr
- Oromo: gogaa
- Ossetian: хус (xus)
- Pangasinan: amaga
- Papiamentu: seku
- Persian: خشک (fa) (xošk)
- Piedmontese: sech, sùit
- Plautdietsch: drieech
- Polish: suchy (pl)
- Portuguese: seco (pt)
- Quechua: ch'aki
- Rapa Nui: paka
- Rohingya: fúaná
- Romagnol: sec
- Romanian: uscat (ro), sec (ro)
- Romansch: sitg, setg, shetg, sec, sech
- Russian: сухо́й (ru) (suxój)
- Sanskrit: शुष्क (sa) (śuṣka)
- Sardinian:
- Campidanese: asuttu
- Logudorese: assuttu
- Sassarese: asciùttu
- Scottish Gaelic: tioram
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: су̑х
- Roman: sȗh (sh)
- Shan: ႁႅင်ႈ (shn) (hēng), ႁွင် (shn) (hǎung)
- Sidamo: moola
- Slovak: suchý
- Slovene: súh (sl)
- Somali: qalayl
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: suchy
- Upper Sorbian: suchi (hsb)
- Spanish: seco (es)
- Sranan Tongo: drei
- Sundanese: garing (su)
- Swahili: -kavu
- Swedish: torr (sv)
- Sylheti: ꠢꠥꠇꠂꠘ (hukoino)
- Tagalog: tuyo
- Tajik: хушк (tg) (xušk)
- Talysh: hışk
- Tarantino: secche
- Tat: xişk
- Tausug: tahay
- Telugu: పొడి (te) (poḍi)
- Tetum: maran
- Thai: แห้ง (th) (hɛ̂ɛng)
- Tibetan: སྐམ་པོ (skam po)
- Tok Pisin: drai
- Turkish: kuru (tr)
- Udi: къари (q̇ari)
- Udmurt: кӧс (kös)
- Ukrainian: сухи́й (suxýj)
- Urdu: سوکھا (sūkhā)
- Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
- Uzbek: қуруқ (quruq), quruq (uz)
- Venetian: séco, sech (vec), suto (vec), sut (vec)
- Vietnamese: khô (vi)
- Volapük: sägik (vo)
- Walloon: saiwe (wa)
- Welsh: sych (cy)
- West Frisian: droech (fy), (2015 spelling reform) drûch (fy)
- White Hmong: qhuav
- Yakan: toho'
- Yakut: кураанах (kuraanaq)
- Yiddish: טרוקן (trukn), פֿאַרטריקנט (fartriknt)
- Zazaki: wısk
- Zealandic: droôg
- Zhuang: rengx
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free of water in any state
Noun
dry (plural drys or dries)
- The process by which something is dried.
This towel is still damp: I think it needs another dry.
- (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
- c. 1952-1996, Noah S. Sweat, quoted in 1996
- The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half.
- An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
Come under my umbrella and keep in the dry.
- (chiefly Australia, with "the") The dry season.
1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 91:[…] one was sodden to the bone and mildewed to the marrow and moved to pray […] for that which formerly he had cursed—the Dry! the good old Dry—when the grasses yellowed, browned, dried to tinder, burst into spontaneous flame— […]
2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 169:[T]he spring-fed river systems. Not the useless little tributary jutting off into a mud hole at the end of the Dry.
- (Australia) An area of waterless country.
- Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
1968, Bee Gees, “Indian Gin And Whiskey Dry”, in Idea(album):All day, all night you feel as if the Earth could fly/Three more all for fine Indian Gin and whiskey dry.
2018 May 2, pyatts, Tripadvisor:Can you buy dry ginger in Croatia? If not what is an alternative?
2021 July 26, cub_beer, eBay:Black Douglas Blended Scotch and Dry Case 24 x 375mL Cans (Title).
- (British, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
- Antonym: wet
Verb
dry (third-person singular simple present dries, present participle drying, simple past and past participle dried)
- (intransitive) To lose moisture.
The clothes dried on the line.
- (transitive) To remove moisture from.
Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.
- (transitive, figurative) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
- (intransitive, informal) For an actor to forget his or her lines while performing.
1986, Richard Collier, Make-believe: The Magic of International Theatre, page 146:An actor never stumbled over his lines, he “fluffed”; he never forgot his dialogue, he “dried.”
2006, Michael Dobson, Performing Shakespeare's Tragedies Today, page 126:In one of the previews I dried (lost my lines) in my opening scene, 1.4, and had to improvise.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Translations
to become dry
- Arabic: جَفَّ (jaffa)
- Hijazi Arabic: جَفّ (jaff), نِشِف (nišif)
- Armenian: չորանալ (hy) (čʻoranal)
- Aromanian: usãc
- Asturian: secar (ast)
- Azerbaijani: qurumaq (az)
- Bulgarian: съхна (bg) (sǎhna), изсъхвам (bg) (izsǎhvam)
- Catalan: assecar-se (ca), eixugar (ca)
- Cebuano: uga
- Chickasaw: shila
- Czech: schnout (cs)
- Dutch: drogen (nl)
- Esperanto: sekiĝi
- Estonian: kuivama
- Even: олга- (olga-)
- Evenki: олго- (olgo-)
- Finnish: kuivua (fi), kuivaa (fi)
- French: sécher (fr)
- Galician: secar (gl)
- German: trocknen (de)
- Greek: στεγνώνω (el) (stegnóno)
- Ancient: ξηραίνομαι (xēraínomai)
- Hebrew: התייבש / הִתְיַבֵּשׁ (hityabésh)
- Hungarian: szárad (hu)
- Icelandic: þorna (is)
- Indonesian: kering (id)
- Irish: triomaigh
- Italian: asciugarsi (it), rinsecchire, essiccare (it), inaridire (it)
- Japanese: 乾く (ja) (かわく, kawaku)
- Korean: 마르다 (ko) (mareuda)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: وشک بوون (wişk bûn)
- Kyrgyz: кургоо (ky) (kurgoo)
- Latin: arēscō, exsuco, arefacio
- Latvian: žūt (lv), izžūt
- Lithuanian: džiūti, išdžiūti
- Luxembourgish: dréchnen
- Malayalam: ഉണങ്ങുക (ml) (uṇaṅṅuka)
- Maori: pūtī
- Mongolian: хатах (mn) (xatax)
- Nanai: холго- (holgo-)
- Norman: s'tchi
- Occitan: secar (oc), assecar (oc)
- Polish: schnąć (pl) impf, wysychać (pl) impf, wyschnąć pf
- Portuguese: secar (pt)
- Quechua: ch'akiy
- Romanian: usca (ro)
- Russian: со́хнуть (ru) impf (sóxnutʹ), высыха́ть (ru) impf (vysyxátʹ), вы́сохнуть (ru) pf (výsoxnutʹ)
- Spanish: secarse (es)
- Swedish: torka (sv)
- Tagalog: matuyo
- Telugu: ఆరిపోవు (āripōvu)
- Turkish: kurumak (tr)
- Ukrainian: со́хнути impf (sóxnuty)
- Welsh: sychu (cy)
- Yakut: куур (kuur)
- Yiddish: טריקענען (trikenen)
- Zazaki: wısk biyen
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to make dry
- Alemannic German: abdroggne, abdroggle
- Arabic: يَبَّسَ (yabbasa), جَفَّفَ (jaffafa)
- Hijazi Arabic: نَشَّف (naššaf), جَفَّف (jaffaf)
- Armenian: չորացնել (hy) (čʻoracʻnel)
- Aromanian: usãc, sec, vintur, zvintu
- Asturian: secar (ast)
- Azerbaijani: qurutmaq (az)
- Basque: agortu
- Bulgarian: суша (bg) (suša), изсушавам (bg) (izsušavam)
- Catalan: eixugar (ca), assecar (ca)
- Cebuano: uga
- Chickasaw: shilili
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 燥 (zh) (zào), (wipe) 擦乾/擦干 (zh) (cāgān)
- Danish: tørre (da)
- Dutch: drogen (nl)
- Esperanto: sekigi
- Estonian: kuivatama
- Finnish: kuivata (fi), kuivattaa (fi)
- French: sécher (fr), faire sécher
- Friulian: suiâ, sujâ, secjâ, sečhâ
- Galician: enxugar (gl), secar (gl)
- Gallurese: ascinà
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: trocknen (de), abtrocknen (de)
- Greek: στεγνώνω (el) (stegnóno)
- Ancient: ξηραίνω (xēraínō)
- Hebrew: ייבש / יִבֵּשׁ (he) (yibésh)
- Hungarian: szárít (hu)
- Icelandic: þurrka (is)
- Indonesian: kering (id)
- Irish: triomaigh
- Italian: asciugare (it), seccare (it)
- Japanese: 乾かす (ja) (かわかす, kawakasu), (wipe) 拭く (ja) (ふく, fuku)
- Khmer: ស្ងួត (km) (sŋuət)
- Korean: 말리다 (ko) (mallida)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: وشک کردن (wişk kirdin)
- Latin: sicco, exsuco
- Latvian: žāvēt
- Lithuanian: džiovinti
- Lombard: sugà (lmo)
- Luxembourgish: dréchnen
- Maguindanao: gangu
- Malayalam: ഉണക്കുക (ml) (uṇakkuka)
- Mansaka: burad
- Maori: tauraki (in the sun), whakamaroke, rangirangi (at a fire or using heat)
- Mongolian: хатаах (mn) (xataax)
- Ngazidja Comorian: hwaniha
- Norman: s'tchi
- Norwegian: tørke
- Occitan: secar (oc)
- Piedmontese: sué
- Polish: suszyć (pl) impf, osuszać (pl) impf, wysuszyć (pl) pf
- Portuguese: secar (pt), enxugar (pt)
- Quechua: ch'akichiy
- Romanian: usca (ro), zvânta (ro), zbici (ro)
- Romansch: segar, seccar, secher, sechar
- Russian: суши́ть (ru) impf (sušítʹ), вы́сушить (ru) pf (výsušitʹ), (wipe) вытира́ть (ru) impf (vytirátʹ), вы́тереть (ru) pf (výteretʹ)
- Sanskrit: शोषयति (śoṣayati)
- Sardinian:
- Campidanese: asciuttare
- Logudorese: asciuttare
- Sassarese: asciuttà
- Shor: қурударға
- Sicilian: nsiccumari (scn), nziccumari (scn), siccari
- Spanish: secar (es), enjugar (es)
- Swedish: torka (sv)
- Tagalog: tuyuin, magpatuyo
- Telugu: ఆరబెట్టు (te) (ārabeṭṭu)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: kurutmak (tr), kurulamak (tr)
- Ukrainian: суши́ти impf (sušýty), посуши́ти pf (posušýty), вису́шувати impf (vysúšuvaty), ви́сушити pf (výsušyty), просу́шувати impf (prosúšuvaty), просуши́ти pf (prosušýty)
- Venetian: secar
- Vietnamese: sấy (vi), hong (vi)
- Welsh: sychu (cy)
- Yiddish: טריקענען (trikenen)
- Zazaki: wısk kerden
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Translations to be checked
See also
Anagrams
Albanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *drūna, from the same root as dru. Cognate to Sanskrit द्रुणा (druṇā, “bow”), Persian درونه (“rainbow”).
Noun
dry m (plural dryna, definite dryni, definite plural drynat)
- lock, bolt
Declension
Related terms
References
Chinese
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From English dry "lacking interest, boring" or by some interpretation of wet "to go clubbing"?”)
Pronunciation
Adjective
dry (Hong Kong Cantonese)
- (of a person) lacking sex or romance
Middle English
Adjective
dry
- Alternative form of drye
Old English
Etymology
Borrowed from a Brythonic language, from Proto-Brythonic *drüw, from Proto-Celtic *druwits (“druid”).
Pronunciation
Noun
drȳ m (nominative plural drȳas)
- wizard, sorcerer
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Passion of St. Julian and his wife Basilissa"
Gehelp urum godum and hat to þe gefeccan þisne dry Iulianum þe ure goda anlicnysse mid ealle to-brytte...- Help our gods, and command men to bring thee this sorcerer Julianus, who hath utterly broken the images of our gods,...
- Hīe woldon forbærnan þone drȳ. ― They wanted to burn the wizard. (Ælfric’s Homilies, volume 1.)
Declension
Declension of dry (strong a-stem)
Derived terms
Descendants
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English dry.
Adjective
dry m or f or n (indeclinable)
- dry (about drinks)
Declension
Declension of dry (invariable)
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Welsh
Pronunciation
Verb
dry
- Soft mutation of try.
Mutation