Usually means: Lacking moisture or not wet.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. dry: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dry, dry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dry, the dry: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dry: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dry, dry: Wordnik
  7. dry, the dry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. DRY, Dry, dry: Wiktionary
  9. dry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dry: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dry: Dictionary.com
  13. dry: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dry: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. DRY, Dry (album), Dry (film), Dry (group), Dry (memoir), Dry (rapper), Dry (wine), Dry, The Dry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dry: Rhymezone
  19. dry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dry: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Dry: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. dry: Free Dictionary
  23. dry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. dry: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. dry: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Beer Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  5. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  6. dry-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. dry: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dry: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Dry (property of alcohol), dry: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. DRY: Acronym Finder
  2. Tea Terms (No longer online)
  3. DRY: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. dry: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. dry, dry, dry, dry, dry, dry, dry: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Dry: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  4. dry: The Folk File
  5. Dry: A Seattle Lexicon

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. dry: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Book Binding (No longer online)
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  7. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  8. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  9. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Free from or lacking moisture.
adjective:  Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
adjective:  (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
adjective:  (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
adjective:  (figurative) Athirst, eager.
adjective:  Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
adjective:  (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
adjective:  Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:
adjective:  (wine and other alcoholic beverages, ginger ale) Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
adjective:  (humor) Amusing without showing amusement.
adjective:  Lacking interest, boring.
adjective:  (poker) Of a board or flop: Not permitting the creation of many or of strong hands.
adjective:  (fine arts) Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
adjective:  (aviation) Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
adjective:  (sciences, somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
adjective:  (of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
adjective:  Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
adjective:  Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.
adjective:  (Christianity) Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
adjective:  (Malaysia, Singapore, of noodles) Mixed with sauce and not served in a soup.
noun:  The process by which something is dried.
noun:  (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
noun:  An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
noun:  (chiefly Australia, with "the") The dry season.
noun:  (Australia) An area of waterless country.
noun:  Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
noun:  (British, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
verb:  (intransitive) To lose moisture.
verb:  (transitive) To remove moisture from.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
verb:  (intransitive, informal, theater) For an actor to forget their lines while performing.
adjective:  (software engineering) Of code, having the quality of adhering to the principle of DRY; containing as little repetition as possible.
verb:  (software engineering) To cause code to become DRY; to remove repetition from code.
noun:  A surname.

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