The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exsiccate
Exsiccate \Ex"sic*cate\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Exsiccated; p. pr. & vb. n. Exsiccating.] [L. exsiccatus,
p. p. of exsiccare to dry up; ex out + siccare to make dry,
siccus dry.]
To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up.
--Sir T.
Browne.
Wiktionary
exsiccate
vb. To dry, to desiccate, to dehydrate.
Usage examples of "exsiccate".
So we both alleged a state of utter repletion, and did not solve the mystery of the contents of the cupboard,--not too luxurious, it may be conjectured, and yet kindly offered, so that we felt there was a moist filament of the social instinct running like a nerve through that exsiccated and almost anhydrous organism.
The birds and the phagors were white, the terrain white or brown and exsiccated black, the sky beyond livid green.