Word Meanings - DRIER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Drying oil; a substance mingled with the oil used in oil painting to make it dry quickly. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, dries; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative; as, the sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers

Additional info about word: DRIER

Drying oil; a substance mingled with the oil used in oil painting to make it dry quickly. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, dries; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative; as, the sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth.

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• SUBSTANCE
  To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• DRY-RUB
  To rub and cleanse without wetting. Dodsley.
• ABSORBING
  Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit. -- Ab*sorb"ing, adv.
• ABSORBITION
  Absorption.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• ABSORBABILITY
  The state or quality of being absorbable. Graham .
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• DRY GOODS
  A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries.
• PAINTING
  The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture. 3. Color laid on; paint. Shak. 4. A depicting by words; vivid representation
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• DESICCATIVE
  Drying; tending to dry. Ferrand. -- n.
• MOISTURE
  1. A moderate degree of wetness. Bacon. 2. That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity. All my body's moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heat. Shak.
• MINGLEABLE
  That can be mingled. Boyle.
• PAINT
  1. To practice the art of painting; as, the artist paints well. 2. To color one's face by way of beautifying it. Let her paint an inch thick. Shak.
• PAINTERSHIP
  The state or position of being a painter. Br. Gardiner.
• DRY-FISTED
  Niggardly.
• MOISTURELESS
  Without moisture.
• PAINTED
  Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting. Painted beauty , a handsome American butterfly , having a variety of bright colors, -- Painted cup , any plant of an American genus of herbs in which the bracts are
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• SUNDRIES
  Many different or small things; sundry things.
• BEMINGLE
  To mingle; to mix.
• REPAINT
  To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.
• SUNDRY
  1. Several; divers; more than one or two; various. "Sundry wines." Chaucer. "Sundry weighty reasons." Shak. With many a sound of sundry melody. Chaucer. Sundry foes the rural realm surround. Dryden. 2. Separate; diverse. Every church almost had
• POLYANDRY
  The possession by a woman of more than one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with Ant: monandry. Note: In law, this falls under the head of polygamy.
• INTERMINGLE
  To mingle or mix together; to intermix. Hooker.
• SMOULDRY
  See SMOLDRY
• CONSUMINGLY
  In a consuming manner.
• TRIMMINGLY
  In a trimming manner.
• HAMADRYAD
  A tree nymph whose life ended with that of the particular tree, usually an oak, which had been her abode.
• RIBAUDRY
  Ribaldry. Spenser.