dry

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?

The weather, […] we […] both agreed, was too dry for the season.

Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.

This well is as dry as that cow.

Built without or lacking mortar.

[A]lready the gate was blocked with a wall of squared stones laid dry, but very thick and very high, across the opening.

Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.

Dry alcohol is 200 proof.

Athirst, eager.

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.

The process by which something is dried.

This towel is still damp: I think it needs another dry.

A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).

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.

The dry season.

[…] 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— […]

[T]he spring-fed river systems. Not the useless little tributary jutting off into a mud hole at the end of the Dry.

An area of waterless country.

To lose moisture.

The clothes dried on the line.

The fruit dried in the dehydrator.

To remove moisture from.

Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.

We dried the fruit in the dehydrator.

To exhaust; to cause to run dry.

For an actor to forget their lines while performing.

An actor never stumbled over his lines, he “fluffed”; he never forgot his dialogue, he “dried.”

In one of the previews I dried (lost my lines) in my opening scene, 1.4, and had to improvise.