Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Drying; removing moisture; having the property of drying.
- noun In medicine, a drug having drying properties.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the quality of
drying up ; causing a drying up. - noun A
medicine that causes drying up.
Etymologies
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Latin exsiccans, present participle of exsiccare. See exsiccate.
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Examples
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But, besides the exsiccant quality it hath to dry up the crudities of the Stomach, as also to comfort the Brain, to fortifie the sight with its steem, and prevent Dropsies, Gouts, the Scurvie, together with the Spleen and Hypocondriacall windes (all which it doth without any violance or distemper at all.)
All About Coffee 1909
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But, besides the exsiccant quality it hath to dry up the crudities of the Stomach, as also to comfort the Brain, to fortifie the sight with its steem, and prevent Dropsies, Gouts, the Scurvie, together with the Spleen and
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