The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Dry \Dry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dried; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Drying.] [AS. drygan; cf. drugian to grow dry. See Dry,
   a.]
   To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any
   kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to
   dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet
   cloth; to dry hay.
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   To dry up.
   (a) To scorch or parch with thirst; to deprive utterly of
       water; to consume.
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             Their honorable men are famished, and their
             multitude dried up with thirst.      -- Is. v. 13.
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             The water of the sea, which formerly covered it,
             was in time exhaled and dried up by the sun.
                                                  --Woodward.
   (b) To make to cease, as a stream of talk.
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             Their sources of revenue were dried up. -- Jowett
                                                  (Thucyd. )


   To dry a cow, or To dry up a cow, to cause a cow to cease
      secreting milk. --Tylor.
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