gangrene: Dry gangrene results from a gradual decrease in the blood supply (as from diabetes or arteriosclerosis) in the affected area, often an extremity. The diseased part may at first be discoloured and cold to the touch; later it becomes distinct from nearby healthy tissue, turning…

dry gas, natural gas that consists of little more than methane, producing little condensable heavier hydrocarbon compounds such as propane and butane when brought to the surface. In the United States, dry gases are defined as those that contain less than 0.1 gallon of condensables per 1,000 cubic

gin: The drier types, sometimes called London dry, may be served unmixed or may be combined with other ingredients to make such cocktails as the martini and gimlet and such long drinks as the Tom Collins and the gin and tonic.

coffee: Processing the bean: …for processing the coffee: the dry, or “natural,” process, the wet (and washed) process, and a hybrid process called the semi-washed, or “pulped natural,” method. The coffee resulting from those processes is called green coffee, which is then ready for roasting. See also coffee production.

dry ice, carbon dioxide in its solid form, a dense, snowlike substance that sublimes (passes directly into the vapour without melting) at −78.5 °C (−109.3 °F), used as a refrigerant, especially during shipping of perishable products such as meats or ice cream. In the production of dry ice,

playa, flat-bottom depression found in interior desert basins and adjacent to coasts within arid and semiarid regions, periodically covered by water that slowly filtrates into the ground water system or evaporates into the atmosphere, causing the deposition of salt, sand, and mud along the bottom

Manhattan: Ingredients and varieties: …dashes of bitters; and the Dry Manhattan, with two parts rye whiskey or bourbon, one part dry vermouth, and two dashes of bitters.

dairy product: Dry milk products: Milk and by-products of milk production are often dried to reduce weight, to aid in shipping, to extend shelf life, and to provide a more useful form as an ingredient for other foods. In addition to skim and whole milk, a variety…

cereal processing: Cassava: Dry milling of cassava is rarely practiced because it yields a product inferior to wet-processed starch in which the tubers are crushed or rasped with water and the starch is permitted to settle. Wet starch is dried to a point where it can be crumbled…

connective tissue disease: Sjögren syndrome: …dryness of the mouth (xerostomia), often coupled with enlargement of the salivary glands; and rheumatoid arthritis. Sometimes the dryness of the eyes and mouth is associated with other connective tissue diseases, such as systemic lupus erythematosus, polyarteritis nodosa, dermatomyositis, or scleroderma, rather than with rheumatoid arthritis. Sjögren syndrome is…

microscope: Optics: A dry objective is one that works with the air between the specimen and the objective lens. An immersion objective requires a liquid, usually a transparent oil of the same R.I. as glass, to occupy the space between the object and the front element of the…

dry offset, offset printing process combining the characteristics of letterpress and offset. A special plate prints directly onto the blanket of an offset press, and the blanket then offsets the image onto the paper. The process is called dry offset because the plate is not dampened as it would be

sand painting, type of art that exists in highly developed forms among the Navajo and Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest and in simpler forms among several Plains and California Indian tribes. Although sand painting is an art form, it is valued among the Indians primarily for religious rather

permafrost: …thus no ice, is termed dry permafrost. The upper surface of permafrost is called the permafrost table. In permafrost areas the surface layer of ground that freezes in the winter (seasonally frozen ground) and thaws in summer is called the active layer. The thickness of the active layer depends mainly…

dry plate, in photography, glass plate coated with a gelatin emulsion of silver bromide. It can be stored until exposure, and after exposure it can be brought back to a darkroom for development at leisure. These qualities were great advantages over the wet collodion process, in which the plate had

cement: Manufacture of cement: …are known as the wet, dry, and semidry processes and are so termed when the raw materials are ground wet and fed to the kiln as a slurry, ground dry and fed as a dry powder, or ground dry and then moistened to form nodules that are fed to the…

coffee: Processing the bean: …for processing the coffee: the dry, or “natural,” process, the wet (and washed) process, and a hybrid process called the semi-washed, or “pulped natural,” method. The coffee resulting from those processes is called green coffee, which is then ready for roasting. See also coffee production.

technology of photography: Dry processing: Processing baths can be completely eliminated by incorporating in the emulsion of the paper development and stabilization chemicals that become active on heating. One method is to disperse the processing chemicals in the emulsion in microscopic capsules containing the solution and a blowing…

coal utilization: Coke ovens: This is called dry quenching.

dry rot, symptom of fungal disease in plants, characterized by firm spongy to leathery or hard decay of stem (branch), trunk, root, rhizome, corm, bulb, or fruit. See bulb rot; crown gall; fruit spot; heart rot;

fish processing: Curing: …used in the fish industry: dry salting and pickle-curing. In dry salting the butchered fish is split along the backbone and buried in salt (called a wet stack). Brine is drained off until the water content of the flesh is reduced to approximately 50 percent (the typical water content of…

The Dry Salvages, poem by T.S. Eliot, first published in 1941 in the New English Weekly and in pamphlet form. The third of the four poems in The Four Quartets, it was written in strong-stress “native” metre and divided into five sections. The Dry Salvages (pronounced to rhyme with assuages) resumes

savanna: Environment: …be subdivided into three categories—wet, dry, and thornbush—depending on the length of the dry season. In wet savannas the dry season typically lasts 3 to 5 months, in dry savannas 5 to 7 months, and in thornbush savannas it is even longer. An alternative subdivision recognizes savanna woodland, with trees…

drought: …have well-defined annual rainy and dry seasons. For successful agriculture, planting must be adjusted so that the crops develop during the rainy season.

man-made fibre: Solution spinning: …spinning includes wet spinning and dry spinning. The former method was first used to produce rayon fibres, and the latter method was used to spin cellulose triacetate to acetate fibres. In both methods, a viscous solution of polymer is pumped through a filter and then passed through the fine holes…

Necati Cumalı: …Susuz Yaz (1962; published as Dry Summer in Modern Turkish Drama; filmed 1963), a tragedy of an unfaithful wife, her husband, and his two-faced brother. Cumalı adapted the story into a play that was produced in 1968. His later plays include Nalınlar (1962; “The Clogs”) and Derya Gülü (1963; Sea…

David Wagoner: …his first book of poetry, Dry Sun, Dry Wind (1953), and two novels, The Man in the Middle (1954) and Money, Money, Money (1955). His early poems focused on the depressed and desolate state of the Midwest in the 1930s. Wagoner joined Roethke in 1954 at the University of Washington…

composting toilet, waterless sewage-treatment system that decomposes human excreta into an inert nitrogen-rich material similar to humus. Because they eliminate the water use associated with typical toilets, composting toilets circumvent the costs associated with traditional sewage treatment.

Dry Tortugas, the last seven in a long string of coral islands (keys) and sandbars that extend westward from Key West (Monroe county), at the tip of southern Florida, U.S., into the Gulf of Mexico. The islands—Bush, East, Garden, Hospital, Loggerhead, Long, and Middle keys—and the unfinished Fort

Dry Tortugas National Park, national park located on the Dry Tortugas islands, southwestern Florida, U.S. The islands are situated at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico, west of Key West, Fla. Established in 1935 as Fort Jefferson National Monument, the park occupies an area of about 101 square

Antarctica: Glaciation: …vanish, producing such spectacular “dry valleys” as the Wright, Taylor, and Victoria valleys near McMurdo Sound. Doubt has been shed on the common belief that Antarctic ice has continuously persisted since its origin by the discovery reported in 1983 of Cenozoic marine diatoms—believed to date from the Pliocene Epoch…

vermouth: …styles of vermouth: the so-called French, or dry style, which is white, and the Italian, or sweet style, which is darker in colour. Both styles, however, are made in both countries, as well as in the United States. Vermouth is used primarily as an ingredient in mixed drinks or sometimes…

arroyo, a dry channel lying in a semiarid or desert area and subject to flash flooding during seasonal or irregular rainstorms. Such transitory streams, rivers, or creeks are noted for their gullying effects and especially for their rapid rates of erosion, transportation, and deposition. There have

United States: The Dry West: In the United States, to speak of dry areas is to speak of the West. It covers an enormous region beyond the dependable reach of moist oceanic air, occupying the entire Intermontane area and sprawling from Canada to Mexico across the western part…

Marlon Brando: …a crusading anti-apartheid attorney in A Dry White Season (1989) and received his eighth Oscar nomination—his first for best supporting actor—for the role. He appeared in six films during the 1990s, highlighted by a send-up of his Godfather character in The Freshman (1990) and by his sensitive portrayal of an…

André Philippus Brink: …’N droë wit seisoen (1979; A Dry White Season; film 1989), in which a white liberal investigates the death of a black activist in police custody. His later works include Houd-den-bek (1982; A Chain of Voices), which recounts through many points of view a slave revolt in 1825; Die kreef…

baking: Yeast: Dry yeast, more resistant to storage deterioration than compressed yeast, requires rehydration before it is added to the other ingredients. “Cream” yeast, a commercial variety of bakers’ yeast made into a fluid by the addition of extra water, is more convenient to dispense and mix…

Irrawaddy River: Physiography: …open course through the central dry zone—the ancient cultural heartland—where large areas consist of alluvial flats. From Mandalay (formerly the capital of the kingdom of Myanmar) the river makes an abrupt westward turn before curving southwest to unite with the Chindwin River, after which it continues in a southwesterly direction.…

Sri Lanka: Drainage: …varied flow than the other Dry Zone rivers and so is a major asset for irrigation in the drier parts of the country (the Dry Zone includes the northern part of the country and much of the east and southeast; see below).

hygrometer: …two thermometers—one wet-bulb and one dry-bulb—to determine humidity through evaporation. A wetted cloth wraps the wet-bulb thermometer at its enlarged end. By rapidly rotating both thermometers, or by blowing air over the bulbs, the temperature of the wet-bulb thermometer is cooler than that of the dry-bulb thermometer. The difference in…

ship: Dry-bulk ships: Designed for the carriage of ore, coal, grain, and the like, dry-bulk ships bear a superficial likeness to container ships since they often have no cargo handling gear and, unlike the tanker, have large cargo hatches. The absence of containers on deck is…

tropical dry forest, biome of any open woodland in tropical areas that have a long dry season followed by a season of heavy rainfall. Tropical dry forests are found between 10° and 25° latitude and are often found north and south of the world’s tropical rainforests. With a dry season that lasts six

coleopteran: Annotated classification: Family Sphindidae (dry-fungus beetles) Small, dark; occur in dry fungi; about 30 species; widely distributed. Superfamily Curculionoidea (snout beetles) One of the largest and most highly evolved groups of coleopterans; head prolonged into beak or snout; mouthparts small; antennae usually clubbed and geniculate; larvae

seasoning: In dry-kiln seasoning, the wood is placed in a structure in which heat, humidity, and air circulation are carefully controlled by fans and steam pipes. As adjuncts to air and kiln seasoning, salt or urea may be impregnated into wood to make it season more easily…

brick and tile: Mixing and forming: …plasticity are used in the dry-press process. A minimum of water is added, the material is placed in steel molds, and pressures up to 1,500 pounds per square inch (10,000 kilopascals) are applied.

glacier: Mass balance: In the dry-snow zone no surface melting occurs, even in summer; in the percolation zone some surface melting may occur, but the meltwater refreezes at a shallow depth; in the soaked zone sufficient melting and refreezing take place to raise the whole winter snow layer to the…

wastewater treatment: Pumps: Dry-well installations have two separate chambers, one to receive the wastewater and one to enclose and protect the pumps and controls. The protective dry chamber allows easy access for inspection and maintenance. All sewage lift stations, whether of the wet-well or dry-well type, should include…

termite: Importance: Dry-wood termites nest in the wood on which they feed and do not invade a structure from the soil. Because their colonies are within the structure, they are difficult to control. Preventive measures include the use of chemically treated wood in building construction and the…

dryad, in Greek mythology, a nymph or nature spirit who lives in trees and takes the form of a beautiful young woman. Dryads were originally the spirits of oak trees (drys: “oak”), but the name was later applied to all tree nymphs. It was believed that they lived only as long as the trees they

basidiocarp: …those of bracket fungi (Polyporus squamosus)—2 m in diameter. The smallest are single cells of the yeastlike Sporobolomyces.

avens: The mountain avens (genus Dryas) are closely related and consist of some three species of evergreen shrubs. The flowers of those species have eight petals instead of the typical five that are common in the family.

Younger Dryas: …Younger Dryas was named after Dryas octopetala, a pale yellow wildflower of the rose family, typical of cold open Arctic environments.

Dryasdust, fictional character, an antiquarian created by Sir Walter Scott writing pseudonymously as “Editor,” or “Antiquary,” in the prefaces to several works, such as The Antiquary (1816). A dull expert on rare books, Dryasdust is a scholar and friend of the “Editor,” with whom he discusses the

Dryasdust, fictional character, an antiquarian created by Sir Walter Scott writing pseudonymously as “Editor,” or “Antiquary,” in the prefaces to several works, such as The Antiquary (1816). A dull expert on rare books, Dryasdust is a scholar and friend of the “Editor,” with whom he discusses the

Newtown Saint Boswells: Nearby Dryburgh Abbey, founded in 1150 for the Premonstratensian order, houses the tombs of Sir Walter Scott and Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig. Pop. (2001) 1,240; (2011) 1,280.

Vance Brand: …of positions, mainly at the Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, until his retirement in 2008.

Hugh L. Dryden was an American physicist and deputy administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for seven years. Educated at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore) in 1920, Dryden was named chief of the aerodynamics section of the National Bureau of Standards,

Hugh L. Dryden was an American physicist and deputy administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for seven years. Educated at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore) in 1920, Dryden was named chief of the aerodynamics section of the National Bureau of Standards,

John Dryden was an English poet, dramatist, and literary critic who so dominated the literary scene of his day that it came to be known as the Age of Dryden. The son of a country gentleman, Dryden grew up in the country. When he was 11 years old the Civil War broke out. Both his father’s and

John Fairfield Dryden was an American senator and businessman, the founder of the Prudential Insurance Company of America, the first company to issue industrial life insurance in the United States. Dryden made a study, while attending Yale College (1861–65), of industrial, or “workingman’s,”

home appliance: Appliances for cleaning.: …automatic electric or gas clothes dryers (sometimes incorporated in a combination machine with an automatic washer) that were programmable by push button to supply either heat alone or hot or cold circulating air for a predetermined period or until the laundry inside was dry. Electric mangles and other ironing machines…

The Oregonian: The paper’s first publisher, Thomas J. Dryer, was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln to be U.S. commissioner of the Sandwich Islands (later the Hawaiian Islands), and Dryer gave the paper to his typographer and printer, Henry Pittock, in lieu of back wages. The paper became a daily in 1861.

agricultural technology: Crop-processing machinery: In a process called dryeration, wet corn (maize) is placed in a batch or continuous dryer. After losing 10 to 12 percent of its moisture, the hot corn is transferred to the dryeration cooling bin, in which it is tempered for six to 10 hours and then slowly cooled…

Erich Dagobert von Drygalski was a German geographer and glaciologist who led an expedition to the Antarctic (1901–03) as part of an international program of exploration. Sailing in the Gauss under the sponsorship of the German government, Drygalski’s party landed on Antarctica at about 90° E, in

drying oil, unsaturated fatty oil, either natural (such as linseed oil) or synthetic, that when spread into a thin film becomes hard, tough, and elastic upon exposure to the air. Drying oils are used as vehicles in paints, varnishes, and printing inks. In the 2nd century ad, the Greek physician

brick and tile: Drying: After the bricks are formed, they must be dried to remove as much free water as possible. (They could literally explode if subjected to fire without drying.) Drying, apart from sun drying, is done in drier kilns with controlled temperature, draft, and humidity.

food preservation: Dehydration: …the processing plant, pasteurization before drying, and storage conditions that protect from infection by dust, insects, and rodents or other animals.

deforestation: History: …is made up of “drylands”—areas too dry to support large numbers of trees—and most are considered grazing lands. There, goats, sheep, and cattle may harm what few trees are able to grow.

dry farming, the cultivation of crops without irrigation in regions of limited moisture, typically less than 20 inches (50 centimetres) of precipitation annually. Dry farming depends upon efficient storage of the limited moisture in the soil and the selection of crops and growing methods that make

Australian literature: Literature from 1970 to 2000: Astley’s later novels—Drylands: A Book for the World’s Last Reader (1999), for example—were increasingly concerned with the dominant, two-pronged problem in late 20th-century Australia: not only how to effect reconciliation between Aboriginal peoples and European Australians but also how to reconcile white Australians to the dark side…

indigo snake, (Drymarchon corais), docile, nonvenomous member of the family Colubridae found from the southeastern United States to Brazil. It is the largest snake in the United States—record length is 2.6 metres (8.5 feet)—and one of the largest of all colubrids. In the United States its colour is

woodpecker: … includes two well-known species: the black woodpecker (D. martius), which is some 46 cm (18 inches) long and is found in coniferous and beech woodlands of temperate Eurasia, and the pileated woodpecker (D. pileatus), which is some 40–47 cm (15.5–18.25 inches) in size and inhabits mature forests of much of…

woodpecker: …of temperate Eurasia, and the pileated woodpecker (D. pileatus), which is some 40–47 cm (15.5–18.25 inches) in size and inhabits mature forests of much of temperate North America.

coleopteran: Annotated classification: Family Dryopidae (long-toed water beetles) Small, downy; crawl on stream bottoms; few species; widely distributed. Family Elmidae (riffle beetles) Varied habitat; several hundred widely distributed species. Family Eulichadidae A few species in

Dryopithecus, genus of extinct ape that is representative of early members of the lineage that includes humans and other apes. Although Dryopithecus has been known by a variety of names based upon fragmentary material found over a widespread area including Europe, Africa, and Asia, it appears

Dryopithecus, genus of extinct ape that is representative of early members of the lineage that includes humans and other apes. Although Dryopithecus has been known by a variety of names based upon fragmentary material found over a widespread area including Europe, Africa, and Asia, it appears

Dryopteridaceae, the shield fern family, containing 40–50 genera and about 1,700 species, in the division Pteridophyta (the lower vascular plants). Dryopteridaceae are distributed nearly worldwide but are most diverse in temperate regions and in mountainous areas in the tropics. Most species are

shield fern, any of about 250 species of the fern genus Dryopteris, in the family Dryopteridaceae, with worldwide distribution. Shield ferns are medium-sized woodland plants with bright green, leathery leaves that are several times divided. They have numerous round spore clusters (sori) attached

drypoint, an engraving method in which the design to be printed is scratched directly into a copperplate with a sharply pointed instrument. Lines in a drypoint print are characterized by a soft fuzziness caused by ink printed from a burr, a rough ridge of metal thrown up on each side of the furrow

Don Drysdale was an American professional baseball player who was a star right-handed power pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1950s and ’60s, helping lead the team to three World Series championships (1959, 1963, 1965). In 1968 he pitched 58.2 consecutive scoreless innings—a record that

Battle of the Chosin Reservoir: The Chinese strike: Douglas B. Drysdale, 41 Independent Commando, Royal Marines, in addition to service and headquarters troops, included a Marine infantry company, an army infantry company, and Drysdale’s British raiding battalion. The task force was ambushed en route. One-third of the force (tanks and infantry) fought through…

Russell Drysdale was an English-born Australian figurative painter and photographer who was among the most representative of modern Australian painters and one of the first to become widely known outside his own country. His subject was often one or a few figures against a stark rural landscape.

Russell Drysdale was an English-born Australian figurative painter and photographer who was among the most representative of modern Australian painters and one of the first to become widely known outside his own country. His subject was often one or a few figures against a stark rural landscape.

drywall, any of various large rigid sheets of finishing material used in drywall construction to face the interior walls of dwellings and other buildings. Drywall construction is the application of walls without the use of mortar or plaster. Drywall materials include plywood and wood pulp,

drywall construction, a type of construction in which the interior wall is applied in a dry condition without the use of mortar. It contrasts with the use of plaster, which dries after application. The materials used in drywall construction are gypsum board, plywood, fibre-and-pulp boards, and

Władysław Orkan: Drzewiej (1912; “In the Old Days”) lyrically describes the life of the Tatra region’s first settlers. Listy ze wsi, 2 vol. (1925–27; “Letters from a Village”), contains sociological reflections on Poland’s immediate condition and the country’s prospects.

Croatian literature: …first South Slav secular play; Marin Držić, who wrote pastoral dramas and comedies portraying Renaissance Dubrovnik (his comedy Dundo Maroje, first performed about 1551, played throughout western Europe); and poet Petar Hektorović. In the 17th and 18th centuries the leading voice belonged to Ivan Gundulić, author of a stirring epic,…

Democrats of the Left, former Italian political party and historically western Europe’s largest communist party. The party was originally founded in January 1921 as the Italian Communist Party (Partito Comunista Italiano; PCI) by dissidents of the extreme left wing of the Italian Socialist Party

darmstadtium (Ds), artificially produced transuranium element of atomic number 110. In 1995 scientists at the Institute for Heavy Ion Research (Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung [GSI]) in Darmstadt, Germany, announced the formation of atoms of element 110 when lead-208 was fused with nickel-62.

angiography: A technique called digital subtraction angiography (DSA) is particularly useful in diagnosing arterial occlusion (blockage). For example, it can be used to identify constriction (stenosis) of the carotid artery or clot formation (thrombosis) in a pulmonary artery. It also can be used to detect renal vascular disease. After…

Dschang, town located in northwestern Cameroon. It is situated on a forested plateau northwest of Yaoundé. Dshang’s high elevation of 4,525 feet (1,379 metres) makes the town a health and tourist resort, despite communications difficulties caused by rugged terrain and high levels of precipitation.

Antarctica: The surrounding seas: As part of the Deep Sea Drilling Project conducted from 1968 to 1983 by the U.S. government, the drilling ship Glomar Challenger undertook several cruises of Antarctic and subantarctic waters to gather and study materials on and below the ocean floor. Expeditions included one between Australia and the Ross…

small arm: Large-calibre machine guns: …the Degtyarov-Shpagin Krupnokaliberny 1938 (DShK-38), was similar, but it was gas-operated. It went into wide use in Soviet-supplied countries. Both of these weapons, as well as their successors (such as the Soviets’ Nikitin-Sokolov-Volkov, or NSV, machine gun), were used by infantry units on wheeled or tripod mounts, but they…

Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a French economist and politician who served (2007–11) as the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)—the United Nations agency that helps maintain a stable global system of currency exchange and promotes balanced economic growth. Strauss-Kahn was raised

DSL, networking technology that provides broadband (high-speed) Internet connections over conventional telephone lines. DSL technology has its roots in work done by Bell Communications Research, Inc., in the late 1980s to explore the feasibility of sending broadband signals over the American

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), publication of the American Psychiatric Association detailing diagnostic criteria for hundreds of psychiatric disorders. The manual is the standard resource of the mental health industry in the United States and is widely used by mental

DSM, state-owned Dutch chemical company. Until 1975 the company was known as DSM NV Nederlandse Staatsmijnen (the Dutch State Mine Company). The major shareholder is the Netherlands government. Headquarters are in Heerlen, Neth. Following World War II, the chemical industry was one of the

DSM, state-owned Dutch chemical company. Until 1975 the company was known as DSM NV Nederlandse Staatsmijnen (the Dutch State Mine Company). The major shareholder is the Netherlands government. Headquarters are in Heerlen, Neth. Following World War II, the chemical industry was one of the

DSM, state-owned Dutch chemical company. Until 1975 the company was known as DSM NV Nederlandse Staatsmijnen (the Dutch State Mine Company). The major shareholder is the Netherlands government. Headquarters are in Heerlen, Neth. Following World War II, the chemical industry was one of the

Itzhak Perlman: …principal guest conductor with the Detroit Symphony from 2001 to 2005 and was music adviser of the St. Louis Symphony, Missouri, from 2002 to 2004. Perlman was also a teacher, regularly giving violin master classes and cofounding in 1998 (with his wife, Toby) the Perlman Music Program to encourage gifted…