A dried-up water hole.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

dried-up grass.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

"Is she sort of stiff and dried-up?" she hazarded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge] Reference

Mr. Solomon Madgin was a little dried-up man, about sixty years old.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891] Reference

And when I am an old woman, all thin and brown and dried-up like lame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas Light] Reference

He had even liked our dingy old office and our dreary, dried-up selves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gay Cockade] Reference

I went along the edge of the dried-up moat at the back, towards my guns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bullets & Billets] Reference

The valley of the Red River is really the bed of an immense dried-up lake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883] Reference

An old dried-up Christmas wreath hanging on a rafter attracted her attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suzanna Stirs the Fire] Reference

A tall dried-up peasant appeared out of the darkness and walked out of the inn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selected Polish Tales] Reference

 There he was in the middle of the dried-up pond, standing hunched over the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dynamite] Reference

The house contained a dried-up old woman, and four white-headed, half-naked children.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference

I might not have grown to be such a dried-up old thing if I had had somebody like David.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcia Schuyler] Reference

Traces of an old pleasure-garden and the dried-up basin of a fountain were visible within.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference

On his right, and insignificant by comparison, was a small grey-haired and rather dried-up man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference

As a consequence, they are a sort of dirty, dried-up plant, with but little juice of life in them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference

Jill went slowly down the hill she looked into the little dried-up yards that had once been gardens.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme] Reference

"Little dried-up feller," replied the gaunt Missourian, "that looks like he always ett at the second table.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference

On arriving at the town with the dried-up well, he was questioned by the King as to what news he had brought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference

Never did know, Nap or me, how Van got our two old dried-up carcasses out the last time, down to Death Valley.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Furnace of Gold] Reference

There are more paint experts walking the streets than there are dried-up paintbrushes sitting in blue coffee cans.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Brilliant Career] Reference

Without a word, he left them, and when he returned, held in his hand a dozen or more hard, bony-like and dried-up reeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns] Reference

My next encounter occurred one forenoon, when I was sitting close to the dried-up canal which formed the outlet of the lake.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians] Reference

Only far off were those dark patches that looked like old seaweed on a dried-up ocean bed, and might prove dangerous footing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out Around Rigel] Reference

When he had gone, Proserpina could not help coming close to the table and looking at the dried-up pomegranate with eagerness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference

Alan took it and saw that it wasn't a pebble, it was a rotted-out and dried-up fingertip, pierced with unbent paperclip wire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference

The march to Punukha extended over a most barren dried-up country, the features presented were the same as those about Phain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

A dried-up creek that was being used by us for a trench on the Ypres sector was crossed by a wooden bridge about thirty feet long.    From Wordnik.com.  [S.O.S. Stand to!] Reference

Here and there over the hot, dusty plain we saw shacks and makeshift houses surrounded by patches of corn or flax or dried-up garden.    From Wordnik.com.  [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference

Why should dried-up old women be able to do something that young men, in their full health and strength, had been unable to accomplish?.    From Wordnik.com.  [L.P.M. : the end of the Great War] Reference

The Great Basin now appears like the skeleton of a dried-up world; but if the climate should change and become like that of the Mississippi.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference