slovodefinícia
To dry up a cow
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Dry \Dry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dried; p. pr. & vb. n.
Drying.] [AS. drygan; cf. drugian to grow dry. See Dry,
a.]
To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any
kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to
dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet
cloth; to dry hay.
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To dry up.
(a) To scorch or parch with thirst; to deprive utterly of
water; to consume.
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Their honorable men are famished, and their
multitude dried up with thirst. -- Is. v. 13.
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The water of the sea, which formerly covered it,
was in time exhaled and dried up by the sun.
--Woodward.
(b) To make to cease, as a stream of talk.
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Their sources of revenue were dried up. -- Jowett
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To dry a cow, or To dry up a cow, to cause a cow to cease
secreting milk. --Tylor.
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