anoint vs dry

anoint

verb
  • To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil. 

  • To choose or nominate somebody for a leading or otherwise important position, especially formally or officially, or as an intended successor. 

  • To apply oil to or to pour oil upon, etc., as a sacred rite, especially for consecration. 

  • To mark somebody as an official ruler, especially a king or queen, as a part of a religious ceremony. 

dry

adj
  • Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages. 

  • Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter. 

  • Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent. 

  • Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom. 

  • Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion. 

  • Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned. 

  • Athirst, eager. 

  • Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened. 

  • Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb). 

  • Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust. 

  • Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color. 

  • Lacking interest, boring. 

  • Amusing without showing amusement. 

  • Built without or lacking mortar. 

  • Free from or lacking moisture. 

  • Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness 

  • Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (farming) milk. 

  • Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids. 

noun
  • The process by which something is dried. 

  • The dry season. 

  • A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages). 

  • Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger. 

  • A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. 

  • An area of waterless country. 

  • An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it. 

verb
  • To remove moisture from. 

  • To lose moisture. 

  • To exhaust; to cause to run dry. 

  • For an actor to forget his or her lines while performing. 

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