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.

To dry up.
   (a) To scorch or parch with thirst; to deprive utterly of water; to consume.

Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. -- Is. v. 13.

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.

Their sources of revenue were dried up. -- Jowett (Thucyd. )

To dry, or dry up, a cow, to cause a cow to cease secreting milk. --Tylor.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)