#339.  Moisture. —­ N. moisture; moistness &c. adj.; humidity,
humectation[obs3]; madefaction|, dew; serein[obs3]; marsh &c. 345; hygrometry, hygrometer. 
     V. moisten, wet; humect[obs3], humectate[obs3]; sponge, damp, bedew;
imbue, imbrue, infiltrate, saturate; soak, drench &c. (water) 337.
     be moist &c. adj.; not have a dry thread; perspire &c. (exude) 295. 
     Adj. moist, damp; watery &c. 337; madid[obs3], roric[obs3];
undried[obs3], humid, sultry, wet, dank, luggy[obs3], dewy; roral|, rorid|; roscid[obs3]; juicy.
     wringing wet, soaking wet; wet through to the skin; saturated &c. v.
     swashy[obs3], soggy, dabbled; reeking, dripping, soaking, soft, sodden,
sloppy, muddy; swampy &c. (marshy) 345; irriguous[obs3].

     #340.  Dryness. —­ N. dryness &c. adj.; siccity[obs3], aridity,
drought, ebb tide, low water.
     exsiccation|, desiccation; arefaction|, dephlegmation|, drainage;
drier.
     [CHEMSUB which renders dry] desiccative, dessicator.
     [device to render dry] dessicator; hair drier, clothes drier, gas
drier, electric drier; vacuum oven, drying oven, kiln; lyophilizer.
     clothesline. 
     V. be dry &c. adj..
     [transitive] render dry &c. adj.; dry; dry up, soak up; sponge, swab,
wipe; drain.
     desiccate, dehydrate, exsiccate[obs3]; parch.
     kiln dry; vacuum dry, blow dry, oven dry; hang out to dry.
     mummify.
     be fine, hold up. 
     Adj. dry, anhydrous, arid; adust[obs3], arescent|; dried &c. v.;
undamped; juiceless[obs3], sapless; sear; husky; rainless, without rain, fine; dry as a bone, dry as dust, dry as a stick, dry as a mummy, dry as a biscuit.
     water proof, water tight.
     dehydrated, dessicated.

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     #341.  Ocean —­ N. sea, ocean, main, deep, brine, salt water, waves,
billows, high seas, offing, great waters, watery waste, “vasty deep”; wave, tide, &c. (water in motion) 348.
     hydrography, hydrographer; Neptune, Poseidon, Thetis, Triton, Naiad,
Nereid; sea nymph, Siren; trident, dolphin. 
     Adj. oceanic; marine, maritime; pelagic, pelagian; seagoing;
hydrographic; bathybic[obs3], cotidal[obs3]. 
     Adv. at sea, on sea; afloat.

     #342.  Land. —­ N. land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma.
     continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese[Fr], delta; tongue of land,
neck of land; isthmus, oasis; promontory &c. (projection) 250; highland &c. (height) 206.
     coast, shore, scar, strand, beach; playa; bank, lea; seaboard,
seaside, seabank[obs3], seacoast, seabeach[obs3]; ironbound coast; loom of the land; derelict; innings; alluvium, alluvion[obs3]; ancon.
     riverbank, river bank, levee.
     soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge[obs3], chalk, gravel, mold,
subsoil, clod, clot; rock, crag.
     acres; real estate &c. (property) 780; landsman[obs3].