Without moisture; not moist; absolutely or comparatively free from water or wetness, or from fluid of any kind: as, dry land; dry clothes; dry weather; a dry day; dry wood; dry bones.SpecificallyIn geology and mining, free from the presence or use of water, or distant from water: as, dry diggings; dry separation.Not giving milk: as, a dry cow.Thirsty; craving drink, especially intoxicating drink.Barren; jejune; destitute of interest; incapable of awakening emotion: as, a dry style; a dry subject; a dry discussion.Severe; hard: as, a dry blow.Lacking in cordiality; cold: as, his answer was very short and dry.Humorous or sarcastic, apparently without intention; slily witty or caustic: as, a dry remark or repartee.In painting, noting a hardness or formal stiffness of outline, or a want of mellowness and harmony in color; frigidly precise; harsh.In sculpture, lacking or void of luxuriousness or tenderness in form.Free from sweetness and fruity flavor: said of wines and, by extension, of brandy and the like.In metallurgy, noting a peculiar condition of a metal undergoing metallurgic treatment.In American political slang, of or belonging to the Prohibition party; in favor of or adopting prohibition of the sale or use of intoxicating liquors: opposed to wet: as, a dry town, county, or State.n. A place where things are dried; a drying-house.n. In American political slang, a member of the Prohibition party.n. In masonry, a fissure in a stone, intersecting it at various angles to its bed and rendering it unfit to support a load.To make dry; free from water or from moisture of any kind, and by any means, as by wiping, evaporation, exhalation, or drainage; desiccate: as, to dry the eyes; to dry hay; wind dries the earth; to dry a meadow or a swamp.To cause to evaporate or exhale; stop the flow of: as, to dry out the water from a wet garment.To wither; parch.To evaporate completely; stop the flow of: as, the fierce heat dried up all the streams.To lose moisture; become free from moisture.To evaporate; be exhaled; lose fluidity: as, water dries away rapidly; blood dries quickly on exposure to the air.To be wholly evaporated; cease to flow.To wither, as a limbTo cease talking; be silent.In pathology, not attended with suppuration, a fluid discharge or exudation, or hemorrhage.n. Dry land: as, to execute a piece of engineering work in the dry (that is, not under water).