English Dictionary

dry-handed

形容詞

古語 廃用

Having hands that are dry. / Old and withered, with connotations of lacking sexual potency or appeal. / (archaic) Empty-handed. / (obsolete) Unarmed; lacking special equipment for fighting.

日本語の意味

手が乾いている状態（濡れていないことを示す） / 老朽化して萎れている状態、特に性的魅力や活力が欠けているという含意を持つ / （古語で）空手、手ぶらである状態 / （廃用な意味で）武器や特別な戦闘用装備を持たず、無防備な状態

The dry-handed climber trusted his chalk to maintain a secure grip on the rock.

手が乾いている登山者は、チョークを頼りに岩をしっかり握った。

意味（1）

Having hands that are dry.

She identified the dry grasp and the finger joints (both the Simpsons were dry-handed, and in the early stages of arthritis, so Dr Simpson had diagnosed).

意味（2）

Old and withered, with connotations of lacking sexual potency or appeal.

She went from the arms of the football captain to the dry-handed grasp of Mr. Depopolus, who'd retired from the faculty when she was twelve years old.

意味（3）

(archaic) Empty-handed.

"But since they commenced to turning folks away, off dry-handed, giving them nothing while folks were getting hungry, well then the federal government fixed the welfare.

意味（4）

(obsolete) Unarmed; lacking special equipment for fighting.

'And now,' she said,'ye maun hae arms:ye maunna gang on dry-handed; but use them not rashly.

意味（5）

(obsolete) Snobbish; concerned more with social standing than actual worth.

During the ensuing period of growth and change Barrington began to consider itself the seat of learning and culture and to look down its nose somewhat at the outer villages, which in turn accused Barrington of becoming dry-handed and altogether too high-minded as it turned from fishing to business and the land

more dry-handed （ comparative ）

most dry-handed （ superlative ）