drouthy

• The land is accounted poor because the supply of plant-food is inadequate for a drouthy year in which a considerable percentage of the time produces little growth, but most agricultural land has enough plant-food for a fairly good crop when water is present all the time to carry daily supplies into the roots. —  Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement
• Matabeleland by contrast seemed rather drab and drouthy, yet she was showing signs of spring. —  Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales
• And while his cough, like a drouthy piston, Tried to dislodge the husk that grew to him, I seized the occasion of bidding adieu to him, The vesture still within my hand XVI I could interpret its command. —  Christmas Eve
• He was unhappily addicted to drink, it is said, but he must have had a large majority of the inhabitants of Ireland of all creeds and classes on the same side with him in this, to judge by the number of houses licensed to sell liquor to be drunk on the premises which are required for the drouthy part of the population. —  The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland
• I have again to remind you that he was only one-and-twenty I'm drouthy, Nanny," the doctor said, to give her something to do, "and I would be obliged for a drink of water Nanny hastened to the pan that stood behind her door, but stopped before she reached it It's toom," she said. —  The Little Minister

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