The Collaborative International Dictionary
bone-dry \bone-dry\ adj. without a trace of moisture.
Wiktionary
a. (context idiomatic English) totally dry; without moisture. alt. (context idiomatic English) totally dry; without moisture.
WordNet
adj. without a trace of moisture; as dry as a weathered bone; "bone-dry leaves are a fire hazard"; "a drier to get the clothes bone dry" [syn: bone-dry(a), bone dry(p)]
Usage examples of "bone-dry".
All of the people Remo had seen there would die-from Chief Batubizee to Bubu to the women and children who sat in the bone-dry dust.
It looked like some trapped chthonic beast struggling to escape the clutches of the bone-dry ground.
Ideally one wants the bone-dry cereal nuggets and the cryogenic milk to enter the mouth with minimal contact and for the entire reaction between them to take place in the mouth.
I went out, bone-dry of course as the electrostatic field repelled the raindrops.
Mars is known as the red planet because its surface is mainly a bone-dry desert of sandy iron oxides: rusty iron dust.
Once, for the sake of an article I was writing, I had been allowed to pick up a bone-dry moon rock and hold it in my hand.
Once, for the sake of an article I was writing, I had been allowed to pick up a bone-dry moon rock and hold it in my hand .
Once, for the sake of an article I was writing, I had been allowed to pick up a bone-dry moon rock and hold it in my hand .
Once, for the sake of an article I was writing, I had been allowed to pick up a bone-dry moon rock and hold it in my hand .
He felt he was swimming in sensations--the taste of the bone-dry air that drew the moisture from his lungs, the lightness of the gravity, the slight reediness of sound distorted by the thin atmosphere.