adry
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /əˈdɹʌɪ/
Adjective
adry (comparative more adry, superlative most adry)
- (archaic) Dry.
- (archaic) Thirsty.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):, I.iii.3:
- counsel can do little good; you may as well bid him that is sick of an ague not to be adry, or him that is wounded not to feel pain.
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