parchingly
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]parchingly (comparative more parchingly, superlative most parchingly)
- So as to parch or dry out.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- Most statistical tables are parchingly dry in the reading; not so in the present case, however, where the reader is flooded with whole pipes, barrels, quarts, and gills of good gin and good cheer.