A toilet, containing no water, in which earth or ashes were added to the excrement after each use, the contents being regularly collected.

plural of dry measure

Left out of water, stranded on a beach, or in the stocks for repair, or in dry dock. / (idiomatic) Abandoned, stranded, helpless.

To have excess water evaporate or be otherwise removed. / (colloquial, transitive, intransitive, idiomatic) To (cause to) sober up; to cease to be drunk; to quit using drugs or alcohol.

Humor that is presented with no change of expression; deadpan.

Alternative spelling of dry humor

A nurse who takes care of a baby, but does not breastfeed

(dentistry) An inflammation, usually acutely painful, of the alveolar bone following extraction of a tooth.

(uncountable) An eye disease caused by decreased tear production; short for dry eye syndrome. / (countable) An eye which is affected by this disease.

A drawn-out period where the weather has been dry, for an abnormally long time; shorter and not as severe as a drought.