fordry

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English fordrien, fordruien, fordruȝen, from Old English fordrūgian (“to become dry, wither”), equivalent to for- +‎ dry.

Verb

fordry (third-person singular simple present fordries, present participle fordrying, simple past and past participle fordried)

1. (intransitive) To dry up; become dry.
2. (transitive) To dry up; make dry.

Etymology 2

From Middle English fordruye, equivalent to for- (“very, excessively”) +‎ dry.

Adjective

fordry (comparative fordrier, superlative fordriest)

1. (obsolete) Very dry; withered.
   • 1387-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Squire's Tale.

     Amid a tree fordry, as white as chalk,
     As Canacé was playing in her walk,
     There sat a falcon o'er her head full high,
     That with a piteous voice so gan to cry, […]