exsiccant
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin exsiccans, present participle of exsiccare. See exsiccate.
Adjective edit
exsiccant (comparative more exsiccant, superlative most exsiccant)
- Having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up.
Noun edit
exsiccant (plural exsiccants)
- A medicine that causes drying up.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “exsiccant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin edit
Verb edit
exsiccant