Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without moisture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without moisture.
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- adjective Devoid of
moisture .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Like the other divisions of Australia, South Australia, when once drought has been overcome by irrigation, is destined to become a great fruit country, its warm, moistureless climate being peculiarly well suited to the ripening of fruits of exquisite flavours.
Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) Various
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That may be one reason why one frequently sees such healthy looking plants framed in the dismal window of a factory tenement, where the chinks can never be stopped tight and the occupants find it hard enough to keep warm, while at the same time it is easy to find leafless and lanky specimens in the superheated and moistureless air of drawing-rooms.
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He walked light-headed in the moistureless chill of the rare sub-Arctic air.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887
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Lovefeasts are the olive branch which we have received from the revered hands of our fathers and mothers in the faith, not to be cast away, but to be prized and kept as a mark of our love for them, for each other, and for Christ our Saviour; and though the green branch which they left us may be somewhat faded, and its leaves droop in our moistureless hands, though it has lost some of the freshness it had when it first came to our keeping, thank God! thank God! it is not dead, it lives! and can be revived.
Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow F. Jewell
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