Adjective : a dry towel; dry air. ,a dry climate; the dry season. ,It was good to be on dry land. ,The well is dry. ,a dry cow. ,dry eyes. ,a dry river. ,He was so dry he could hardly speak. ,dry work. ,dry toast. ,dry measure; dry provisions. ,a dry Manhattan. ,a dry martini. ,a dry state. ,dry facts. ,a dry subject. ,dry humor. ,a dry answer. ,The greatest of artists have dry years.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : to dry the dishes.    From Dictionary.com. 

The town, situated in what the record books call the driest place on earth, had long been nurtured by a river that flowed by it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

We've had the driest January to June for 71 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can I use water and be green?] Reference

Her scent which slakes thirst more than driest of beer!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witch-Doctors] Reference

The season of 1944 here was one of the driest on record.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946] Reference

June, and then a long drought with the driest July since 1944.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952] Reference

"You write the driest, long-windedest things that ever I read.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference

Seasonal Drought Outlook map to see which states are the driest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buzzword: Water-Wise Landscaping] Reference

A barren shrub that grows in the driest parts of the wilderness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias The Challoner Revision] Reference

Their habitat is in the hottest and driest parts of the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference

In Morgantown this has been one of the driest seasons on record.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference

They appear, really, to choose the driest authors they can pick out!.    From Wordnik.com.  [She and I, Volume 1] Reference

"By always burning the very driest wood I could find, miss," replied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle] Reference

He says certain swaths of the Big Island are the driest in the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trouble In Paradise: Hawaii Waits For Drought Relief] Reference

The barroom of the Lake View Inn promised to be the driest place in town.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Janice Day Won] Reference

The terminology of the driest didactic texts is saturated with mythology.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference

August and September are generally the driest months, and the most equable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

Customer -- That was the driest flattest sandwich I ever tried to chew into!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Suffrage Cook Book] Reference

It's right on the edge of the Atacama Desert, which is the world's driest desert.    From Wordnik.com.  [It Could Be Months Before Chilean Miners Are Freed] Reference

The Ica Valley is a desert area in the Andes and one of the driest places on earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Peru's wells are being sucked dry by British love of asparagus] Reference

The Chairman: The driest leaves in the woods contain more water than you think they do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912] Reference

Madame Féodoreff and her daughters, is the driest, most hopelessly academic, of his works.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genius] Reference

November are the driest months in the year, and the best for expeditions into the interior.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 579, December 8, 1832] Reference

The driest economist would allow that it would not pay, to let the working classes be slaughtered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference

The whole ridge is well supplied with clean, soft running water, even in the driest of the season.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884] Reference

On removal from the kiln, the dry wood at once takes up moisture from the air, even in the driest weather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

We found abundance of water, in the driest season, at four feet, and it has never ceased to flow copiously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference

But even in the coolest and driest of his pieces there is the mark of greatness, of grasp, of comprehension.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

The driest volumes of political economy, the most indigestible of philosophical treatises, nothing came amiss.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference

Mr. KEVIN KODAMA (National Weather Service): They were on pace to set all-time records for the driest year ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trouble In Paradise: Hawaii Waits For Drought Relief] Reference

But a new micro-insurance program could provide some measure of stability for residents in country's driest areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insurance Initiative Could Protect Farmers Against Drought in Kenya] Reference

TEXAS HAD THE second driest spring on record, while cities along the East Coast had record rainfall and flooding.    From Wordnik.com.  ['This Is Not A Typical Weather Pattern'] Reference

Mexico and the Southwest United States, meanwhile, has been suffering from the driest spell in more than 50 years.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Global Weirding': Extreme Climate Events Dominate The Summer] Reference

The driest and warmest situation should be selected for the early sorts, and the strongest land for the late ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition] Reference

Our bedrooms which are in the middle of the house and cut off by a passage from the south side are the two driest rooms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference

= = Peas = = of the round-seeded class may be sown in open quarters, and the driest and warmest places must be selected.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition] Reference

Taking two of the old umbrellas Katy propped them up to reinforce their foliage roof over the driest spot she could find.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicken Little Jane] Reference

Everybody in her sphere breathes easy, feels free; and the driest twig begins in her sunshine to put out buds and blossoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864] Reference