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dry adj. (1 properly,=that does not draw blood)
1. severe, hard Err. II. ii. 65 “another basting.”
2. (of jests, &c.) dull, stupid AYL. II. vii. 39, LLL. V. ii. 374, Tw.N. I. iii. 81, v. 44.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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