The process of cleaning clothes and other fabrics without using water, instead using solvents and specialized equipment.

present participle of dry clean

(transitive) To remove volatile liquid from (a substance) by sublimation, normally under vacuum, from the frozen state.

Alternative form of drypoint

To make or become dry by rolling about in the heated rotating drum of a clothes dryer / To dry by spinning with hot air inside a cylinder.

Alternative form of bone-dry

Carbon dioxide frozen in the solid state, used especially as a cooling agent and for the production of fog-like special effects. It sublimes at −78.5 °C (−109.3 °F) at normal atmospheric pressure.

(fishing) A fly used in fly fishing, designed to float in or on the surface of the water

(firearms) To discharge a weapon without ammunition in the chamber. / (archery) To draw and release a bow without an arrow loaded.

plural of dry fly