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dry ((adj.)) † 
1 adj. forbidding the sale and use of intoxicating beverages.
- 1915 Should the Prohibition Act have passed in the meantime, you will take up your permanent abode in the dry province of Alberta.
- 1959 Six Nations Indians voted early in May to end the "dry" status that has always prevailed on the reservation five miles south of here.
2 adj. (quasi-adverbial use, as in vote dry, go dry, etc.) against the sale and use of intoxicating beverages.
- 1910 At the recent local elections the town of Newmarket, Ont., went dry.
- 1922 . . . the Dominion government . . . had legislated the whole country dry.
- 1938 When local option was exercised here, Victoria voted dry.
- 1915 Should the Prohibition Act have passed in the meantime, you will take up your permanent abode in the dry province of Alberta.