v. Obs. [OE. fordrúȝian (intr.), f. FOR-1 + drúȝian to DRY. The trans. use is f. FOR-1 + DRY a.] intr. To dry up.

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a. 1000.  Boeth. Metr., xx. 206.

        Thonne hio wære
Fordrugod to duste.

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a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 148. Ant te grene howes beoð al uordruwede.

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a. 1350.  Leben Jesu, 596. Ase a luþur braunche, and fur druyt.

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1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., IX. vi. (Tollem. MS.). Þe sonne … ripeþ frutes and flouris … and fordrieþ and wasteþ superfluiteis. Ibid., XVII. xiii. (1495). Pouder therof layed therto fordrieth the bleding.

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1413.  Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton, 1483), III. iii. 51. Some of them were all fordryed and lene withouten flesshe, that nought apperyd of them but only the bones.

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1494.  Fabyan, Chron. VII. ccxxvii. 256. From the morne to the vndertyde, the ryuer of Trent was so fordryd in the moneth of Iunii, as sayth Guydo, yt men went ouer drye.

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