bone-dry

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After the corn is bone-dry it should, like all other vegetables and fruits, be conditioned.

I asked him if he meant that it was "bone-dry" like Kansas, or whether the rich could still get it?

I mustnt do any more on that until it's bone-dry; so you may come down.

The lights of small restaurants glimmered faintly on the bone-dry pavement.

Fruits are dried only until leathery, whereas vegetables are dried until they are bone-dry.