The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kiln-dry
Kiln-dry \Kiln"-dry`\, v. t.
To dry in a kiln; as, to kiln-dry meal or grain.
--Mortimer.
Usage examples of "kiln-dry".
To be sure, there were walls of some kiln-dried material, whitewashed to a sheen that blazed beneath the sun, but the majority were of the gaily striped fabrics.
My mouth was kiln-dry and full of the taste of salt, the ugly taste of fear.
Toughen and kiln-dry in a couple days in a mild but unvarying temperature.
And then a third time, trying to moisten his kiln-dry mouth as the proceedings' drawn out, formal agony flayed his nerves.