2. Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry.
{Drying oil}, an oil which, either naturally or after boiling
with oxide of lead, absorbs oxygen from the air and dries
up rapidly. Drying oils are used as the bases of many
paints and varnishes.
{To dry up}.
(a) To scorch or parch with thirst; to deprive utterly of
water; to consume.
Their honorable men are famished, and their
multitude dried up with thirst. -- Is. v. 13.
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.
Their sources of revenue were dried up. -- Jowett
(Thucyd. )
{To dry, or dry up}, {a cow}, to cause a cow to cease
secreting milk. --Tylor.