exsiccant

English

Etymology

From Latin exsiccans, present participle of exsiccare. See exsiccate.

Adjective

exsiccant (comparative more exsiccant, superlative most exsiccant)

1. Having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up.

Noun

exsiccant (plural exsiccants)

1. 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Verb

exsiccant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of exsiccō