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Parching

adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Causing something or someone to parch; extremely drying.

    "Who can unpitying see the flowery race, / Shed by the morn, their new-flush'd bloom resign, / Before the parching beam?"

  2. 2
    Very thirsty; parched.

    "Proceed to nearest canteen and there annex liquor stores. March! Tramp, tramp, tramp the boys are […] parching."

Noun
  1. 1
    The process of parching or roasting something, such as corn.

    "I have already told how we parched sunflower seed; and that I used two or three double-handfuls of seed to a parching. I used two parchings of sunflower seed for one mess of four-vegetables-mixed."

  2. 2
    The condition of being parched; absolute dryness.

    "Squalid youths with ghastly grin, In hollow bitter roots shall bring, Urine of the unsav'ry goat, To quell the parchings of thy throat."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of parch form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From parch + -ing.

Etymology 2

From parch + -ing.

Etymology 3

From parch + -ing.

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