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moistless, a.|ˈmɔɪstlɪs|
[f. moist n. + -less.]
Devoid of or free from moisture; dry.
1592Warner Alb. Eng. viii. xxxix. 174 Some Cloudes giue Snow, that lights and lyes a moysture moystles. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 183 A rinde moystlesse hard and scaly. 1827G. Beauclerk Journ. to Marocco xii. 141 The moistless tongue rattled as it essayed to speak. 1884J. Purves in Gd. Words Nov. 768 The subterranean galleries..leave the seed dry and moistless. |