DRYER

Free from or lacking moisture.

Example: "This towel's dry. could you wet it and cover the chicken so it doesn't go dry as it cooks?"

Unable to produce a liquid, as water, oil, or (farming) milk.

Example: "This well is as dry as that cow."

Built without or lacking mortar.

Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.

Example: "Dry alcohol is 200 proof."

Athirst, eager.

Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.

Example: "Of course it's a dry house. he was an alcoholic but he's been dry for almost a year now."

Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.

Example: "You'll have to drive out of this dry county to find any liquor."

Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:

(somewhat derogatory) involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.

(of a sound recording) free from applied audio effects.

Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.

Example: "Never dry fire a bow; dry humping her girlfriend; making a dry run"

Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.