Parched definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary P`ARCHED, pp. Scorched; dried ... vast desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat"; "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare"; "sunbaked salt flats" [syn: adust, baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked] 2: toasted or roasted slightly; "parched corn was a staple of the Indian diet" Merriam Webster ... Parch Parch (p[aum]rch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Parched; p. pr. & vb. n. Parching.] [OE. perchen to pierce, hence ... skin; to parch corn. Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn. --Lev. xxiii. 14. 2. To dry to extremity; ...
... no drink. Matthew 25. 1. Very dry; having no moisture; parched. The thirsty land shall become springs of water. Isaiah 35 ... 12th century 1. a. feeling thirst b. deficient in moisture ; parched < thirsty land > c. highly absorbent < thirsty towels > 2. having a ... feeling thirst. 2 (of land, a season, etc.) dry or parched. 3 (often foll. by for or after) eager. 4 colloq ... am thirsty. --Judges iv. 19. 2. Deficient in moisture; dry; parched. A dry and thirsty land, where no water is. --Ps ... of English Synonyms a. 1. Suffering from thirst. 2. Dry, parched, arid, without moisture. 3. Longing, craving, greedy, eager. Moby Thesaurus ... itching, juiceless, keen, like parchment, mad with lust, moistureless, osmotic, parched, prurient, ravenous, resorbent, sandy, sapless, sere, soaking, sorbent, spongeous, ...
... TOR'RID, a. [L. torridus, from torreo, to roast.] 1. Parched; dried with heat; as a torrid plain or desert. 2 ... Etymology: Latin torridus, from torr?re Date: 1545 1. a. parched with heat especially of the sun ; hot < torrid sands > b ... the weather) very hot and dry. b (of land etc.) parched by such weather. 2 (of language or actions) emotionally charged ... akin to E. Thist: cf. F. torride. See Thirst.] 1. Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert. ``Barca ... n Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. 1. Dried, parched, scorched. 2. Burning, parching, scorching, violently hot, fiery. Moby Thesaurus ... like a furnace, like an oven, lustful, muggy, overheated, overwarm, parched, parching, passionate, piping hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorched, ...
... the sun's rays parches the ground; the mouth is parched with thirst. P`ARCH, v.i. To be scorched or ... to wither or parch from exposure to heat; "The sun parched the earth" [syn: parch, sear] Merriam Webster's verb Etymology ... Parch Parch (p[aum]rch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Parched; p. pr. & vb. n. Parching.] [OE. perchen to pierce, hence ... skin; to parch corn. Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn. --Lev. xxiii. 14. 2. To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth is parched from fever. The ground below is parched. --Dryden. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Parch Parch, v. i. ...
... dry, from areo, to be dry.] Dry; exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; as an arid waste. WordNet (r) 3.0 ... Reference Dictionary adj. 1 a (of ground, climate, etc.) dry, parched. b too dry to support vegetation; barren. 2 uninteresting (arid ... arere to be dry: cf. F. aride.] Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren. ``An arid waste.'' --Thomson. Collin's ... s Dictionary of English Synonyms a. 1. Dry, dried up, parched with heat, parched, unfertile, barren, sterile. 2. Dry, uninteresting, dull, pointless, jejune, unsuggestive ...
... Parch Parch (p[aum]rch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Parched; p. pr. & vb. n. Parching.] [OE. perchen to pierce, hence ... skin; to parch corn. Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn. --Lev. xxiii. 14. 2. To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth is parched from fever. The ground below is parched. --Dryden. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Parching Parch"ing (p[aum ...
... ears and eat the grain not ground. This is the parched corn (the American Standard Revised Version "'grain") so often mentioned ... Gaza roasted also, and eaten with oil and salt, like parched corn. The children of Israel, when in the wilderness, are ... followers at Mahanaim was "wheat, and barley, and meal, and parched grain, and beans, and lentils, and parched pulse, and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of ...
... pinolli Date: 1842 1. a finely ground flour made from parched corn 2. any of various flours resembling pinole and ground ... other plants Oxford Reference Dictionary n. US flour made from parched cornflour, esp. mixed with sweet flour made of mesquite beans ... powder used in Italy in the manufacture of chocolate. 2. Parched maize, ground, and mixed with sugar, etc. Mixed with water ...
... vast desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat"; "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare"; "sunbaked salt flats" [syn: adust, baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked] 2: burned brown by the sun; "of an ... Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. Burned, scorched, fiery, parched, dried up, shrivelled, brown, bronzed.