dried, ppl. a.
(draɪd)
[f. dry v. + -ed1.]
1. Deprived of moisture, desiccated. Often with up. spec. of foods: deprived of moisture so as to be capable of being preserved for a long time, often in the form of powder.
| a 1340 Hampole Psalter cl. 4 A dryid scyn. 1596 Shakes. 1 Hen. IV ii. iv. 271 Dried neat's tongue. 1664 Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 203 Pull off all crumpl'd dry'd Leaves. 1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 29 Loblolly made with Indian Corn, and dry'd Peaches. 1737 J. Brickell Nat. Hist. N. Carolina (1743) 319 When they [sc. Indians] go to War or their Hunting Matches..they generally carry with them..Bread, Indian Corn, dried Fruits, of several sorts. 1753 C. Gist Jrnl. (1893) 81 Got some corn and dried meat. 1771 Franklin Lett. Wks. 1887 IV. 403 A specimen of the American dried apples. 1816 Byron Ch. Har. iii. iii, I find The furrows of long thought, and dried-up tears. 1837 W. Irving Capt. Bonneville III. 185 Keeping the dried meats for places where game might be scarce. 1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Index. Dried fruits. 1907 H. W. Wiley Foods & their Adulteration ii. 115 Dried eggs. The rapid drying of fresh eggs is perhaps an unobjectionable method of preservation. Ibid., Dried products are sometimes made from decayed eggs. 1909 G. F. Still Common Disorders of Childhood iv. 59 Another firm prepares a dried milk to which cream and milk sugar have been added before desiccation. 1918 Lancet 24 Aug. 245/1 The rôle of dried milk in infant feeding [etc.]. 1933 Chem. Abstr. 1919 Dried eggs may be held in storage for several months with no loss of vitamin D in the yolks. 1941 Ann. Reg. 1940 6 To purchase Turkish dried fruits..annually for the duration of the war. 1944 Daily Tel. 11 July 3 The housewife's greatest standby is Dried Eggs. |
2. transf. and fig. See the verb.
| 1622 Fletcher Span. Cur. iii. ii, A man of a dride conscience. 1853 C. Brontë Villette vi, A dried-in man of business. 1885 G. Allen Babylon xiii, In a dried-up Indian military tone. |