Talk:dry

Request for verification
Rfv-sense: "To forget the words, to lose your way in a speech."—msh210 ℠  19:39, 12 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Shouldn't this sense be at dry up, where it's missing? --Duncan 21:12, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Added the sense to dry up, left it, so far, rfv-ed, at dry. --Duncan 01:16, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Assume so. I don't see how it could be dry. Equinox 00:56, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I think it might be specific to the acting profession - any thespians out there?   D b f  i  r  s   09:53, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

RFV failed, sense removed. —Ruakh TALK 21:25, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Missing sense? "good dry blows" in a fight
Equinox ◑ 15:47, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
 * This gentleman then being well tired with his long journey from Chester in one day, with which, and some good dry blows he had received in the scuffle, his bones were so sore, that, added to the soreness of his mind, it had quite deprived him of any appetite for eating.
 * This gentleman then being well tired with his long journey from Chester in one day, with which, and some good dry blows he had received in the scuffle, his bones were so sore, that, added to the soreness of his mind, it had quite deprived him of any appetite for eating.

dry fire a bow
What meaning of bow is used here? --Backinstadiums (talk) 12:27, 31 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Weapon that fires arrows, used by an archer. Equinox ◑ 16:26, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
 * but the definition of dry fire reads: (firearms) To discharge a weapon without ammunition in the chamber. --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:17, 31 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Presumably for a bow this would mean firing it with no arrow loaded. Maybe that entry needs improvement? Equinox ◑ 17:21, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
 * what verb is used for an arrow? fire? --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:48, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

Noun: dry place (informal)
A place that is dry or sheltered from the rain (informal) stay in the dry! --Backinstadiums (talk) 09:07, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Great spot! I’ve just added this. Overlordnat1 (talk) 10:11, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Dry Ginger Ale
I’ve added the dry ginger ale meaning and provided 3 quotes to back it up. I could have also added references to ‘Jamieson (smooth) Dry and Lime’ and ‘Canadian Club Whisky and Dry’ which appear multiple times online. (It’s also a fact that ANY whisk(e)y mixed with Canada Dry, or indeed any ginger ale is a ‘whisk(e)y (and) dry’ but I’ve yet to find any explicit online proof of that). Overlordnat1 (talk) 02:38, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

RFC discussion: December 2021
The principal parts dries, drying and dried for the verb dry in English show correctly. But the conjugation table incorrectly shows he drys. In addition to simply being an obvious mistake, drys is all but non-existent in Google Ngrams when isolated to a verb form. I see that where try is defined as tr|y, dry is defined as dry|dried. I don't edit in Wiktionary, so I'm pointing this out for someone more capable to fix. Tosiaan (talk) 05:35, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I've moved your comment here as it's more likely to receive attention on this page. — SGconlaw (talk) 05:41, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I had already fixed the problem and was formulating my reply explaining what I did when you moved this out from under me. The OP was only 15 25 minutes ago... Chuck Entz (talk) 06:00, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
 * ah, thanks! — SGconlaw (talk) 06:14, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
 * : fixed. For future reference, when you click "Edit", then "Show preview", there are links below the edit window to all the templates used in the preview. Clicking on the link for en-conj will show you the documentation for that template, from which you can see that adding "dries" as the fifth parameter is what was needed. This is a fairly complex template- often it's simpler than that. Chuck Entz (talk) 05:52, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
 * @Sgconlaw @Chuck Entz Thanks for the quick fix and the info. Tosiaan (talk) 07:06, 27 December 2021 (UTC)