Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to make dry; having the power of drying.
- noun A medicine or preparation having drying properties.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to make dry; having the power of drying.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Tending to make
dry ; having the power of drying.
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Examples
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The patient is to be laid upon his back, the hips raised, the intestines restored to the abdominal cavity and the opening of exit dressed with a plaster of exsiccative and consolidating remedies, of which he furnishes a long and diversified catalogue.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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They were in a curious dis-ease whose occasion was not to be defined; in a consuming restlessness beneath whose goad even the significant apartment had not power to charm and hold her; in a certain feverishness whose exsiccative heat, leaving her palms and temples cool (she sometimes felt them and had surprise) caused inwardly a dry burning that made her long for quiet places.
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