DRY-FISTED
Dry"-fist`ed, a.
Defn: Niggardly.
DRYFOOT
Dry"foot, n.
Defn: The scent of the game, as far as it can be traced. [Obs.] Shak.
DRY GOODS
Dry" goods`.
Defn: A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., — in distinction from groceries. [U.S.]
DRYING
Dry"ing, a.
1. Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room.
2. Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry. Drying oil, an oil which, either naturally or after boiling with oxide of lead, absorbs oxygen from the air and dries up rapidly. Drying oils are used as the bases of many paints and varnishes.
DRYLY
Dry"ly, adv.