exsiccation

He knew this, too, that bitter things are suitable; for to dry up wounds requires exsiccation.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

A somewhat different method is followed in Trinidad and Jamaica (in the latter island it can scarcely be said to be cultivated now); but it differs in no essential degree from the principle of gradual exsiccation, and protection from moisture.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

There instead of exsiccation he was confronted by a dreadful humidity, an infertile ooze that seemed almost less susceptible to cultivation than the other.

The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927

In spite of philosophy, I am rather ashamed of this unceremonious exsiccation of your financial river.

Selected English Letters Various 1913

It is a perfect exsiccation, all the fluids are dried up.

An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians 1884

It may now be expected that I should offer some opinion as to the antiquity and race of this singular exsiccation.

A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians 1884

I have been during the last three months undergoing a process of intellectual exsiccation.

Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

Owing to this excessive exsiccation, the soil is extremely arid, and will neither bear trees nor plants of any kind; unless when irrigated by means of canals, when it produces almost every vegetable in astonishing abundance.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

Thus the granulations of new flesh to repair the injuries of wounds are visible to the eye; as well as the callous matter, which cements broken bones; the calcareous matter, which repairs injured snail-shells; and the threads, which are formed by silk-worms and spiders; which are all secreted in a softer state, and harden by exsiccation, or by the contact of the air, or by absorption of their more fluid parts.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

“With regard to the relative condition of the peripheral nerve-ends, experiments on the motor nerves go to show that swelling of the terminal ends of these nerves may diminish their excitability to the point of its complete extinction, while it becomes increased by their exsiccation.

The Electric Bath George M. Schweig