(as) dry as a bone

: free or relatively free from a liquid and especially water

: not being in or under water

: lacking precipitation or humidity

: to make dry (see ¹dry)

: to become dry

: the condition of being dry (see ¹dry) : dryness

: something dry

: prohibitionist

: one of the hard parts of the skeleton of a vertebrate

: any of various hard animal substances or structures (such as baleen or ivory) akin to or resembling bone

: the hard largely calcareous connective tissue of which the adult skeleton of most vertebrates is chiefly composed

: to remove the bones from

: to provide (a garment) with stays

: to rub (something, such as a boot or a baseball bat) with something hard (such as a piece of bone) in order to smooth the surface

: extremely, very