dry gales

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• Dry

  ·superl Of the eyes: Not shedding tears. II. Dry ·superl Of persons: Thirsty; needing drink. III. ...

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• christian's gales

  The tremendous storms in 1795-6, which desolated the fleet proceeding to attack the French West Indi...

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• equinoctial gales

  Storms which are observed to prevail about the time of the sun's crossing the equator, at which time...

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• Dry dock

  ·- ·see under <<Dock>>. ...

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• Dry goods

  ·- A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, ·etc., — in distinc...

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• Dry nurse

  ·- A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; — in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it...

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• Dry-beat

  ·vt To beat severely. ...

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• Dry-boned

  ·adj Having dry bones, or bones without flesh. ...

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• Dry-eyed

  ·adj Not having tears in the eyes. ...

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• Dry-fisted

  ·adj <<Niggardly>>. ...

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• Dry-rub

  ·vt To rub and cleanse without wetting. ...

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• Dry-rubbed

  ·Impf & ·p.p. of Dry-rub. ...

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• Dry-rubbing

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Dry-rub. ...

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• Dry-shod

  ·adj Without wetting the feet. ...

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• Dry-stone

  ·adj Constructed of uncemented stone. ...

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• Kiln-dry

  ·vt To dry in a kiln; as, to kiln-dry meal or grain. ...

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• Smoke-dry

  ·vt To dry by or in smoke. ...

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• dry bob

  A smart repartee: also copulation without emission; in law Latin, siccus robertulus. ...

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• dry boots

  A sly humorous fellow. ...

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• dry-blowing

  n. a Western Australian term ingold-mining. 1894. `The Argus,' March 28, p. 5, col. 5: «When wate...

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• drop-dry

  Completely water-tight. ...

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• dry dock

  An artificial receptacle for examining and repairing vessels. (See graving-dock.) ...

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• dry ducking

  Suspending a person by a rope a few yards above the surface of the water. ...

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• dry flogging

  Punishing over the clothes of a culprit. ...

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• dry-rot

  A disease destructive of timber, occasioned by a fungus, the Merulius lachrymans, which softens wood...

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• dry rowing

  "Row dry." Not to dash the spray with the blade of the oar in the faces of those in the stern-sheets...

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• row dry!

  The order to those who row, not to splash water into the boat. ...

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• dry-bulb thermometer

  The readings of this instrument, when compared with those of a wet-bulb thermometer, indicate the am...

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• dry holy-stoning

  See holy-stone. ...

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• high-and-dry

  The situation of a ship or other vessel which is aground, so as to be seen dry upon the strand when ...

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• thick-and-dry for weighing!

  To clap on nippers closely, just at starting the anchor from the ground. ...

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