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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
dry .
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Examples
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In Proverbs 17: 22, it is written "A merry heart is a good medicine: but a broken spirit drieth up the bones."
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Now this river drieth up every Sabbath,542 and on the opposite bank lies a city wholly inhabited by Jews, who the faith of Mohammed refuse; there is not a Moslem among the band nor is there other than this city in the land.
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A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
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A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
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Proverbs says, "a happy heart doeth good like medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bone"; that God loves a cheerful giver -- that's what Jack McAuliffe was.
Remarks By President At Memorial Service For Jack Mcauliffe ITY National Archives 2001
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He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
Nahum 1. 1999
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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up; so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
Job 14. 1999
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A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Proverbs 17. 1999
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