parchingly

English

Etymology

parching +‎ -ly

Adverb

parchingly (comparative more parchingly, superlative most parchingly)

1. So as to parch or dry out.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     Most statistical tables are parchingly dry in the reading; not so in the present case, however, where the reader is flooded with whole pipes, barrels, quarts, and gills of good gin and good cheer.