fordryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

fordry (三人称単数 現在形 fordries, 現在分詞 fordrying, 過去形および過去分詞形 fordried)

1. (intransitive) To dry up; become dry.
2. (transitive) To dry up; make dry.

語源 2

From Middle English fordruye, equivalent to for- (“very, excessively”) +‎ dry.

形容詞

fordry (comparative fordrier, superlative fordriest)

1. (obsolete) Very dry; withered.
   • 1387-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Squire's Tale.

     Amid a tree fordry, as white as chalk,
     As Canacé was playing in her walk,
     There sat a falcon o'er her head full high,
     That with a piteous voice so gan to cry, […]