Having or characterized by little or no rain, Having all the water or liquid drained away, evaporated, or exhausted, Needing moisture or drink, noun_ Dry land_ as, to execute a piece of engineering work in the dry (that is, not under water), A prohibitionist, intransitive verb_ To preserve (meat or other foods, for example) by extracting the moisture, To become dry, To remove the moisture from; make dry