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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (2)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• dry (adj.):
    1. I. Without moisture:
      1. 1. siccus (not wet): a d. soil, s. solum, Quint.: d. days, s. dies, Hor.: d. bread, s. panis, Plin.: d. (unwetted) feet, s. pedes, Ov.: the pitcher stood d. (without water), stetit urna s., Hor.
      2. 2. siccāneus (like siccus, but only of soil): a d. spot, meadow: locus, pratum s., Col. (The form siccānus occurs in Plin., of trees grown in a dry soil, 16, 17, 29.)
      3. 3. ārĭdus (dry throughout, as fuel; parched): d. wood, a. lignum, Pl.: d. fuel, a. nutrimenta (ignis), Virg.: a d. (crackling) sound, a. sonus, Virg.
      4. 4. ārens, ntis (= aridus): Virg.: Tac.
      5. 5. torrĭdus (dried up): a d. spring, fons t., Liv. Phr.: to make (drink) d., siccare (v. to dry): to be d., arēre, Ov.: Cato: to become d., siccescere, Col.: Plin.; arescere, Pl.: Cic. (v. to dry, B.): that season was excessively d., siccitate eo anno plurimum laboratum est, Liv. See also dried.
    2. II. Not covered with water; chiefly in phr. d. land:
      1. 1. siccum (prob. not found in prose except after a prep.): on d. land, in sicco, Plin.: the (ships') beaks are on d. land, rostra tenent siccum, Virg. The plur. form sicca also occurs.
      2. 2. ārĭdum (like preced.): to haul up ships on d. land, naves in aridum subducere, Caes.: Ov.
    3. III. Thirsty: sĭtiens, siccus: v. thirsty.
    4. IV. Uninteresting:
      1. 1. ārĭdus: a d. and sapless style, a. et exsangue genus orationis, Auct. Her.: exceedingly d. treatises, aridissimi libri, Auct. Dial. Or.: Cic. (N.B. Not siccus, which is rather an epithet of praise; terse, sinewy.)
      2. 2. jējūnus: v. meagre.
      3. 3. frīgĭdus (without life or freshness): v. flat.
      4. 4. exsuccus (sapless): Join: (orator) aridus et exsuccus et exsanguis, Quint.
      5. 5. exsanguis, e: v. supr.
    5. V. Plain, unembellished: siccus, austērus, pressus: v. terse.
    6. VI. As epith. of a joke, cool and cutting:
      1. 1. scītus (shrewd): a d. saying, s. (dictum), Cic. Div. 2, 24, 51: Tac.
      2. 2. perh. austērus: a d. kind of humour, *quasi austerum quoddam jocandi genus: v. severe.
    7. VII. As epith. of wine, without lusciousness: perh. austērus or as softened compar., austerior: v. sour.
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• dry (v.):
  1. A. Trans.:
    1. I. To dispel moisture:
      1. 1. sicco, 1 (to remove wetness): the sun d.s the dewy grass, sol pruinosas s. herbas, Ov.: to d. (drain) marshes, paludes s., Cic.: to d. and wipe off blood, cruorem s. et detergere, Gell.: to d. anything in the sun, s. aliquid in sole, Plin.: to d. one's tears, lacrimas s., Prop.
      2. 2. exsicco, 1 (like sicco, but stronger): to d. anything in the sun, ex. aliquid in sole, Col.: Plin.
      3. 3. dēsicco, 1 (like preced.): Pl.: Apul.
      4. 4. assicco, 1 (= sicco): Col.
      5. 5. ārĕfăcio, fēci, factum, 3 (to d. throughout): to be d.'d in an oven, arefieri in furno, Plin.: to d. oil-scum, amurcam arfacere (sync.), Cato: Varr.
      6. 6. torreo, 2; torrĕfăcio, 3 (to dry thoroughly, roast): Col.
    2. II. To wipe away (tears):
      1. 1. abstergeo, si, sum, 2: to d. a friend's tears, abs. oculos amiculo, Curt.; abs. fletum, Cic.
      2. 2. sicco, 1: v. supr. (1). Phr.: d. your tears, ne lacrima, mitte lacrimas! Ter.
  2. B. Intrans.: to become d.,
      1. 1. siccesco, 1 (rare): to lay in the sun or in an oven to d., in sole exponere aut in furno, ut siccescat, Plin.: Col.
      2. 2. exsiccesco, 3: Vitr.
      3. 3. āresco, 3 (to become quite dry, to d. up): tears soon d., cito a. lacrima, Cic.: Plin.
      4. 4. ĭnāresco, 3 (= preced.): to d. in the sun, in sole in., Plin.: Vitr.: Quint.
      5. 5. sicco, 1 (with ellipsis of pron. refl.): Apul. To begin to d., subarescere, Vitr.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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1. siccus (not wet, dry; presupposes a previous moist state; opposed to madidus, madefactus; e.g., eye, wind, weather, season; hence, figuratively, without ornament, etc., of a speech): siccaneus (of a dry nature or quality, e.g., a meadow, pratum; place, locus, post-Augustan): aridus (of things which, from an entire want of moisture, are capable of, fit for burning; opposed to humidus, wet; succosus, full of sap, etc.; e.g., ligna; arbor; folia; hence, FIG. = containing little matter, jejune; void of spirit, of persons and things; opposed to copiosus; e.g., a teacher, an orator, speech, writing). (The words are found in this connection and order.) exsiccatus atque aridus (dried up and withered): siticulosus: sitiens (PROP., longing, thirsting for moisture): torridus (opposed to uvidus; dried up from external heat, aridus being from internal heat or dryness; e.g., a fountain, fons): exsuccus (PROP.; without juice or sap): jejunus (figuratively; dry, jejune; without spirit, of things and persons; opposed to plenus, copiosus, e.g., things, materials, subject for a speech, etc., res; oratio; orator; scriptor). (The words are found in this connection and order.) jejunus et aridus (e.g., tale, style, delivery, narratio, traditio): exilis (figuratively, meagre, lean, containing little matter; e.g., oratio): frigidus (figuratively, frosty, feeble, of persons and things; e.g., orator; verba; jocus; negotia): austerus (grave and dry, severe, opposed to comis, jucundus, of persons and things): dry (= not giving any milk), *sicca or lac non praebens: very dry, peraridus; siccatus in ariditatem: a dry throat, fauces siecae or aridae: dry bread, panis siccus (not soaked in anything; not eaten with anything to it, as wine or any other drink; Vid: Hard., Plin., 22, 25, 68): dry food or victuals, victus aridus (containing little nutriment); viclus tenuis (scanty): a dry joke, *jocus serio vultu prolatus: to eat dry bread, panem siccum or *sine opsonio edere: a dry style of painting, *dura pingendi ratio: dry places, siccanea (sc. loca); siticulosa (sc. loca); sitientia (sc. loca): a dry year, annus siccus: a very dry year, siccitate insignis annus; annus, quo siccitatibus laboratur: dry weather, siccitas; siccitates (lasting or continuing; [Vid: Herz., Caes., B.G., 4, 16). The dry land, siccum (that was wet or inundated before; e.g., to stand or remain on dry land, in sicco desistere, of water; Vid: Liv., 1, 4); aridum (dry land, continent, where there is no water, e.g., naves in aridum subducere, Caes., B.G., 4, 29; ex arido tela conjicere, Caes. B.G., 4, 24): in a dry way or manner, sicce; jejune; exiliter; frigide [SYN. above]: graviter et severe: austere: to be dry (PROP.), arere; (figuratively) nullam habere sermonis comitatem: to make dry [Vid: To DRY]: to become dry, arescere (Cic.): exsiccescere (Vitr.): exarescere (e.g., fauces siti, Cic.): arefieri (Plin.): perarescere (to become thoroughly dry).
2.
  • TRANS.
  • To free from moisture, siccare (Ov.); exsiccare (Cic.); desiccare (Plin.); assiccare (Col.): arefacere (Plin.); siccitatem inferre: torrefacere (to make dry by external heat, to parch).
  • To wipe away moisture, tergere; detergere; extergere (Cic.); abstergere (Ov.).
  • To drain, exhaurire: exinanire: vacuum facere: exsiccare.
  • Dry tip your tears, parcite lacrymis. To dry one’s tears, lacrimas abstergere.
  • INTRANS., siccescere: exsiccescere: siccari: exsiccari: arescere: arefieri: exarescere: exarefieri (Plin.); arere (Plaut.) [SYN. of siccus, aridus, in DRY, adjective]. To begin to dry, subarescere: to dry thoroughly, assiccescere (Col. 12, 9, 1): perarescere (quite through). To spread out grass to dry, herbam in sole exponere, ut siccescat (Col. 12, 28, 1). To DRY UP, TRANS., extorrere; exsiccare; urere, adurere (of the heat of the sun). INTRANS., Same verbs as “to DRY” intrans.: inarescere (Cic.); penitus siccari (Col.). The rivers dried up, evanuerunt et exaruerunt amnes (Plin.). Nothing dries up sooner than tears, nihil citius quam lacrima arescit (Cic.), inarescit (Quint.): To dry up before it is ripe, inarescere ante maturitatem (Col. 4, 24, 3) :