Desiccant: alternatives and connections

An exposure to air, or to a fire, for warming, drying, etc.; as, the airing of linen, or of a room.

The act of drying, or the state of growing dry.

The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.

To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.

A hop-drying kiln; an oast.

To grow firm and hard; to unite and become solid; as, moist clay consolidates by drying.

To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.

To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver…

To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.

One who prepares beef, fish, etc., for preservation by drying, salting, smoking, etc.

To dry up; to deprive or exhaust of moisture; to preserve by drying; as, to desiccate fish or fruit.

Drying; tending to dry.

Desiccative.

Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room.

An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat.

Having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up.

The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture; state of being dried up; dryness.

Tending to make dry; having the power of drying.