To prepare and flavor food (especially meat) for cooking by soaking in a salt solution.
To preserve food in a salt solution.
The sea or ocean; the water of the sea.
Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling.
To roast, as dry grain.
To burn the surface of, to scorch.
We're parched, hon. Could you send up an ale from the cooler?
The patient's mouth is parched from fever.
To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat.
To make very thirsty.
To become superficially burnt; be become sunburned.
The condition of being parched.