a. [f. SUN sb. + dried, pa. pple. of DRY v.]
1. Dried by exposure to the sun, as clay, bricks, or articles of food, etc.
1600. J. Pory, trans. Leo’s Africa, VI. 268. Castles … enuironed with walles made of sunne-dried brickes.
1634. Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 35. Houses of sun-dried mud.
1741. Boyse, Patience, 184. Nor wanted he for fowl or sun-dried fish.
1858. Birch, Anc. Pottery, I. 158. Sun-dried clay was used by the Greeks for modelling objects intended for internal decorations.
2. Dried up or parched by the sun, as vegetation, etc.
1638. Sandys, Paraphr. Div. Poems, Exod. xv. As Fire the Sun-dri’d Stubble burnes.
1842. Dumfries Herald, Oct. Where you hear the whins, with their opening capsules, crackling on the sun-dried braes.
1889. Conan Doyle, Micah Clarke, 231. Their dark sun-dried faces … marked them as fishermen or seamen.
1901. ‘G. Paston,’ Little Mem. 18th C., 238. A tuft of sun-dried heather.
