sun-dried, a.
(ˈsʌndraɪd)
[f. sun n.1 + dried, pa. pple. of dry v.]
1. Dried by exposure to the sun, as clay, bricks, or articles of food, etc.
| 1600 J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa vi. 268 Castles..enuironed with walles made of sunne-dried brickes. 1634 Sir T. Herbert Trav. 35 Houses of sun-dried mud. 1741 Boyse Patience 184 Nor wanted he for fowl or sun-dried fish. 1858 Birch Anc. Pottery I. 158 Sun-dried clay was used by the Greeks for modelling objects intended for internal decorations. |
2. Dried up or parched by the sun, as vegetation, etc.
| 1638 Sandys Paraphr. Div. Poems, Exod. xv, As Fire the Sun-dri'd Stubble burnes. 1842 Dumfries Herald Oct., Where you hear the whins, with their opening capsules, crackling on the sun-dried braes. 1889 Conan Doyle Micah Clarke 231 Their dark sun-dried faces..marked them as fishermen or seamen. 1901 ‘G. Paston’ Little Mem. 18th C. 238 A tuft of sun-dried heather. |