| 单词 | desiccate |
| 例句 | “A raisin is simply a desiccated grape, ’’said Uncle Fester. desirable. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in the ward, he found his wife lying vanquished beneath the blankets like a desiccated old vegetable, wrinkled, dry and white, her enfeebled tissues absolutely still. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z They looked like dried up pieces of fruit, desiccated human faces—witches with metallic beaks for lips. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Juanita threw the cash on the dashboard and turned away to look out the window at the tall desiccated trees that seemed to loom over us as we drove on. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The buds on a weeping spruce cascade over a small embankment—a little hint of life beneath the desiccated vines and leaves. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Then, just as reluctantly as the last leaf of autumn falls off a desiccated branch, Juanita’s hand slackened and fell away from mine. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Daylight streamed through the hole onto a mound of splintered floorboards and broken glass from which rose coils of silty dust, pieces of torn carpet plastered here and there like scraps of desiccated meat. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I could have sworn that just a few seconds ago I was twenty-three, and now here I am in this wretched, desiccated body. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z All around us the desiccated corpses of the butterflies glittered and shone. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z There were some old rusted tools lying about and some desiccated straw lined the far left corner, but half the roof was either missing or about to fall off. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z He took a step backward, walking toward the stone steps, avoiding the desiccated remains of people and animals on the floor. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z One burrowed through his breeches into the desiccated flesh of his thigh, to emerge again from his shoulder. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She looked like she’d been stuck in a cool, dark mausoleum for decades, slowly withering into a desiccated husk. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Composed of heat-resistant plastic and chemically treated cork layers, and equipped with a desiccating unit to keep the air bone-dry, the insosuits could withstand the full glare of Mercury’s sun for twenty minutes. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Standing beside the hackberry shrubs with hundreds of empty desiccated cocoons still clinging to their branches and a carpet of butterfly corpses under her feet, La Llorona did not look anything like a malevolent specter. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z On one wall, like coats on a coat rack, hung the desiccated, skeletal remains of two people - an adult and a small child. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z She pointed to a photograph of a desiccated insect with a stick emerging from its corpse—it was gross, but kind of fascinating, too. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In the wedding registry of Alton, New Hampshire, they remained married, their contract a legal if desiccated thing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The Black newcomer had been recruited on the desiccated farm lands of Georgia and Mississippi by war-plant labor scouts. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “You won’t be needing this anymore,” she said, clutching a cream linen suit, which hung better on the wire hanger than on her desiccated frame. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The country surrounding Davis Gulch is a desiccated expanse of bald rock and brick-red sand. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought of the ghost of that long-dead child, watching us, its desiccated bones sunk deep into the ground below. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Crumbley had become a desiccated cast of himself, so fragile that a strong wind could blow him apart. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Scattered around her were old pieces of lumber—some cracked and desiccated, others broken into kindling. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He hadn’t intended for us to wither into desiccated husks in front of brightly lit screens that leeched away our summer days one meme at a time. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Now she seemed to desiccate by the moment. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The Vampires were terrible, desiccated women who entered the convent because they hated themselves and thought that by surrendering their lives to their redeemer, this self-hatred would turn to something good and palliative. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I walk my bike around the skeletons of dead trees and desiccated vines onto the dirt path into the woods. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The clothes hung out to dry were still, stiff, as if desiccated by the hot afternoon sun. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In the wake of the reapers’ scythes the black land showed again through the stubble, no longer moist and rich but bone-hard, desiccated, and beginning to crack in all directions under the burning sun. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z It was as if there were an unspoken agreement on the mountain to pretend that these desiccated remains weren’t real—as if none of us dared to acknowledge what was at stake here. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He crawled over desiccated rat bodies and their nests. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Irons’s narration for this collection of poems, beginning with “The Waste Land,” is forlorn, desperate, crabby and weary — mirroring Eliot’s understanding of a desiccated, exhausted culture bereft of meaning. The 5 best audiobooks of 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Plush, comforting sounds are in retreat; instead, instruments are often sparse and brittle, electronically desiccated or sampled through static. Pop Music in 2017: Glum and Glummer 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z I cracked open a whole coconut, then used a vegetable peeler to peel strips off it but you can simply use any desiccated coconut. Peter Gordon's six delicious salad recipes 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z Wildland is land so desiccated that a spark can turn it into an uncontrollable wildfire. Two Authors View America From Above and Below, and Are Not Happy With What They See 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Here, a slight opera score performed as a new soundtrack for a desiccated print of an Italian exploitation film. Monteverdi's 'L'Orfeo,' the first modern opera, has lessons for digital age 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z And we’d do well to remember that even the most prestigious literary awards are sometimes given to self-absorbed, desiccated books that quickly evaporate into irrelevancy. Perspective | Goodreads Choice Awards: An annual reminder that critics and readers don’t often agree 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z “Right. That’s right. You don’t know. It’s because those things hang together at a very deep level. Right. Yeah. And it makes sense that an old king lives in a desiccated tower.” Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z The site indicates pterosaurs lived in large colonies, in this case nesting near the lake and burying eggs in moist sand to prevent them from becoming desiccated, Wang said. Stunning fossil eggs provide insight on ancient flying reptiles 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Fiennes’s onscreen presence, sometimes a bit desiccated and chilly, is here richly sanguine and even rather exuberantly conceived, playing Dickens as the preening peacock of emotional pain. Ralph Fiennes's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z The more I looked at it, the more convinced I became that it was real, down to the tiny teeth and claws and desiccated eyeballs loose in the sockets. On the run with my dad 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z At one point, the archaeologists twisted off the mummy’s desiccated arms in order to remove some golden bracelets. Behold, King Tut, in All His Majesty and Mystery 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Indeed, desiccated fruit would seem to be a badge of responsible style. Is Tinsel Canceled? 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Resting on top of the rice noodles is chicken confit, which, in terms of moistness and flavor, is the exact opposite of the desiccated, used-up meat typically found in chicken soups. Flavors Cross Borders at Little Tong Noodle Shop 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z “But by animating them and showing what and passed through them, we can show them as vital arteries rather than desiccated bones.” Lab in Richmond Animates Comprehensive 1932 U.S. Atlas 2013-12-25T22:20:08Z Botanists are still using these unprepossessing, desiccated branches and leaves to discover some pretty vital aspects of our world, primarily the evolutionary relationships among plants. Perspective | Dead plants’ evolutionary secrets might save the planet, or at least take its pulse 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z “He was a desiccated husk, a tin man who really didn’t have a heart. His lack of vibrancy, his utter dearth of sex appeal made Al Gore look like Charo.” “Daily Show” classics: John Kerry completely bombs, Jon Stewart cleans up the mess 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z The Central Valley is desiccated — the media have dubbed it “the Pacific Dust Bowl” — and the price of produce has skyrocketed. Young Adult Fantasy Novels That Sweep Readers Away 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z We had been together for about a month when I realized: Was I a desiccated succulent he found on the curb? How a Missing Sock Changed My Life 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Black lizards covered with white speckles, known as lagartijas Magallanicas, skittered across the ground, and the desiccated corpse of a guanaco, a wild grazer related to the llama, baked beneath the sun. In Chilean Patagonia, Following a Track to the End of the World 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z In the beginning he looks crushed, his trousers puddling around his ankles; at the end he is desiccated. Peter and Alice; The Low Road – review 2013-03-31T00:05:46Z Meanwhile, using a blender or food processor, grind together the mustard seeds, peppercorns, garlic and 2 tablespoons of desiccated coconut along with the coconut milk. 20 best fast food recipes: part 1 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z A new psychiatrist recently checked my thyroid and determined that the levothyroxine was not doing the job and recommended desiccated thyroid. Pickle juice, yellow mustard for muscle cramps 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Butler’s vampires aren’t the average bloodsuckers, snacking on humans and discarding our desiccated corpses like peanut shells, but symbionts who cultivate extended families of willing humans, granting them longer lives and better health. New & Noteworthy, From French Pancakes to a Bipartisan Road Trip 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z And he would beachcomb, collecting bits of rope and buoys, and extricating desiccated sea life from the scum line. When SpongeBob SquarePants Was Just a Sketch on a Beach in Baja 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z We drove for eight hours, through wastelands of rubble and Martian hills, until we arrived at a desiccated plain. A Remarkable Rail Journey Into the Horn of Africa’s Past, and Future 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z He was on his knees in a flower bed, a trowel in one hand and what looked like a desiccated thumb in the other. Untamed 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z The narrow discipline of the doctorate might, one may surmise, have desiccated his intellect. Frank Kermode: a tribute by John Sutherland 2010-08-20T23:22:00Z Using a small knife, scrape out the vanilla seeds, add to the mix, then stir in the desiccated coconut, if using, lime zest, cinnamon, nutmeg and rum. Festive recipes from around the world 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z Ms. Sossamon also directed the video for the band’s song “Undertow,” all soft, flooded light and desiccated patrician living. Music Review: Aquatic and Narcotic, Propelled by the Drummer 2010-12-05T22:17:00Z Beeple has a talent for rendering architecture, though he struggles with flesh; as in many video games, the skins appear waxy and desiccated. Beeple Has Won. Here’s What We’ve Lost. 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z Like its peers, McClatchy has been desiccated after years of deserting advertisers, disappearing readers and evaporating profit. ‘A lot of uncertainty’: Staffers at renowned McClatchy newspapers mull bankruptcy sale to tabloid-owning hedge fund 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z This can be done by delaying harvest, the proverbial “long hang-time” — popular in California for the last 20 years — in which grapes desiccate on the vine, increasing the ratio of sugar to liquid. When Simplicity Can Be a Winemaking Virtue 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Stir in the raisins, rice flour, baking powder, desiccated coconut and margarine. Our 10 best: healthy snacks 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z I hate all that – the big desiccated dodo, the mini nappy-flavoured cabbages, the fat, the sugar, the brandy, the butter. TV review: River Cottage; The Making of a Lady; Him & Her 2012-12-16T21:45:01Z Aerial shots depict this slum as a fetid, desiccated wasteland, in which the pickings are thin, even for scavengers. ‘Horses of God,’ Nabil Ayouch’s Film About Islamic Extremism 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z Add the remaining desiccated coconut and fry until crisp and golden in colour. 20 best fast food recipes: part 1 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z As the sun dipped beneath the horizon, we set off in search of firewood, finding a rare patch of desiccated scrub just as darkness fell. Explorer: A Desert Blooms Along China?s Silk Road 2010-10-15T19:26:00Z It was shocking when a troll-caught Alaskan king salmon fillet arrived thin and desiccated. Flying Fish brings mood and food to a sprawling new space in South Lake Union 2010-08-19T21:01:00Z Or would you soon be found desiccated and near-dead in your apartment, eyeballs dangling from their sockets? Books and the ‘Boredom Boom’ 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z At a time when so much pop speaks of constriction — with narrow singsong melodies, metronomic beats and desiccated instrumental tones — La Havas is determinedly expansive, and anything but mechanical. Lianne La Havas Traces the Arc of a Romance 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, my desiccated yard in Marfa is filled with burrs and gopher holes. My sister’s perfect life 2012-07-04T00:00:00Z Until then, the writer and his muse mash fiction and reality into desiccated scenes that fall flatter than the aforementioned song. Movie Review: ‘The Yakuza and the Mermaid,’ by Chris Benker 2012-09-27T22:38:21Z The shimmering wheat fields are desiccated, the once proud threshing machines abandoned. To Get This Artist’s Message, You Have to Look Really Closely 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z I once took photos of my partner holding a desiccated, splotchy rubber glove that was retrieved from the stomach of a nursing home resident months after someone rammed it down her throat. Lawyers and Secondary Traumatic Stress, or: On the dispersal of brain matter in a Kentucky trailer 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z Tease the old soil from the roots, untangle them and remove dead or desiccated ones. Perspective | The right way to care for one of nature’s most neglected creatures: The houseplant 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z The toxic views of Clippers owner Donald Sterling were making headlines, confirming that virulent prejudice is alive and well in the desiccated hearts of dinosaur men. 'A Raisin in the Sun' actresses discuss play's stark resonance 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, the combination of malignance and desiccated vaudeville reaps big, but diminishing, returns. Neil Hamburger 2010-08-20T14:32:00Z Having heard both these declarations, I can now say with confidence that if Ms. O’Hara chose to sing that she had fallen in love with a desiccated turnip, I would believe her unconditionally. Theater Review: It Was Love At First Sound 2010-11-19T20:42:00Z In the artificial gloom inside a warehouselike soundstage, the various pieces of Camp Victory — rec room, cafeteria, cabins, ceremonial entrance — are scattered around a rough quadrangle of artificial turf and desiccated trees. Television: Savannah Dooley and Winnie Holzman Develop ?Huge? 2010-06-20T02:02:00Z The spirits of Oak Hill Cemetery present a ghoulish gallery of desiccated lives, minds dehydrated until all that remains are the central anxieties and preoccupations of their lives above ground. ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ arises from a tragic footnote in American history 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z There’s even a moment, shortly before the climactic murder that ends the first act, when a few desiccated leaves flutter wanly to the stage. Review: In ‘Thérèse Raquin,’ Keira Knightley as a Baleful Adulteress 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z “My” counterpart in “Trinity,” Sally, ends up a desiccated, unlovable, insect-like creature; her twin sister dies young. Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Residents left their homeland for a desiccated nearby island called Rongerik where they nearly starved. A boatload of ideas are packed into Simon Winchester's literary cruise across Pacific Rim's recent history 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z The dining table hosts a permanent slovenly debris, of books, mainly, plus assorted stationery, old pencil-heckled text printouts, plastic bags like an invasion of blowsy desiccated jellyfish, and a set of half-broken opera glasses. My secret hoarding shame: I lived with my trash. It was time to throw it all away 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z At 127, his body is mostly made up of synthetic parts around a “desiccated nugget of flesh.” Review | Does living forever sound ideal? These 5 new books will change your mind. 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Similarly, I see Mayer’s version as a depiction of today’s polarized America, where people of opposing viewpoints can’t bear to “touch” one another, leaving the country in a desiccating stalemate. Inspired by Lorca, an L.A. playwright sets off in search of 'Yerma in the Desert' 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z I find their performance redolent of a desiccated academicism, but even an enthusiast would be hard-pressed to name this group as the one worthiest of the most concentrated visual attention. A Classic Jazz Documentary That Honors and Insults the Art Form 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z His rhymes, once the most inventive in the genre, have been badly desiccated. Kendrick Lamar and Lil Wayne Each Sidestep the Traditional Album Cycle 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z It’s a direful thing to have in your hands, a desiccated version of Lady Gaga’s skirt-steak dress. Books of The Times: A Grotesque Artifact Starts a Journey From Garage Sale to Buchenwald 2010-09-30T22:21:00Z The desiccated bush turns relentlessly, caught between the motion of the treadmill and the “wind” from a fan. Artists turn L.A. gallery into a museum of nuclear dystopia 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z Check off the punch list of items in this manifest: 1. a world governed by a race of wise elders, perched on high columns and with their desiccated faces in fishbowls; cf. Green Lantern: Not So Super-Hero 2011-06-16T15:55:00Z The fact-checkers by now must look like extras from “The Walking Dead,” relentless in their pursuit of brainy material, yet desiccated by the toil, a shell of their former, vital selves. Perspective | Kristen Welker saved ‘the show,’ but let’s not ever forget that TV debates need to change 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z “To one practitioner They look like horrible insects; to another, ghastly, unnatural fish or rats, or disgusting birds, or shrunken, desiccated children.” Gothic Horror Fiction, Old and New 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z The desiccated originals were tacked to a third board nearby. FITTINGS: Countdown to Fashion Week: Thank the Deli for That Dress 2013-08-21T18:17:47Z As detailed in Michael Kodas’s bracing “Megafire” and Edward Struzik’s drier “Firestorm,” today’s forests are often clogged with desiccated vegetation because — unlike in countless millenniums past — they are seldom cleansed by naturally occurring blazes. Are the American West’s Wildfires Inevitable? 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z The inhabitants left behind pictographs, sooty ceilings, piles of 700-year-old desiccated corn cobs and original wooden beams. New Mexico’s Silver City — just the ticket for a 25th wedding anniversary 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z At once exuberant and desiccated, and on loan from the Los Angeles collector Eli Broad, it justifies the whole show. Art in Review: Benny Andrews: The Pop Object ‘The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art’ 2013-05-09T19:47:17Z Driving home, this desiccated, morally compromised man has to stop the car to recover himself. Perspective | Pandemic highlights the staying power of two 20th-century masterpieces 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z Food and other resources were scarce—imports being virtually nonexistent—and the cultural landscape was gnarled and desiccated. The Woman Behind Latin America's Literary Boom 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Many won’t be remembered at all, their unidentifiable remains as desiccated as the bones of wild animals that have perished from the same harsh conditions. Border fence’s devastating toll 2012-09-18T22:00:00Z To suggest that musicians should tastefully retire when they hit 35 is about as ridiculous as Hollywood's belief that any woman over 40 is a desiccated crone. Glastonbury: the casual ageism directed at the Rolling Stones is really decrepit 2013-07-02T16:35:16Z I lifted mine in November but stored them poorly, so they desiccated and died. Dahlia, give me one more chance As anyone who listens to a broadcast of tomorrow night's late Prom will discover, he is no desiccated minimalist. In praise of ? Steve Reich 2011-08-08T22:23:55Z Satellite images of verdant green shrink to desiccated brown over and over. Watching ‘Our Planet,’ Where the Predator Is Us 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The archaeological site is situated at that forlorn fringe between impoverished city and desiccated farmland. Herod the Great’s Israel 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z When she started to perform that song at Marlins Park here on Wednesday night, though, it was something else altogether: slurry, gothic, desiccated. Review: On ‘Formation’ World Tour, Beyoncé Through ‘Lemonade’-Tinted Glasses 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Dressing Caesar as Trump gives that agenda its juice but leaves the production a bit desiccated and incoherent thereafter. Review: Can Trump Survive in Caesar’s Palace? 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z As well as eating what grew, she made art out of it: Her rangy figures that she refers to as “future ancestors” are made from braided palm leaves, corn stalks and other desiccated vegetable matter. 5 Artists to Watch at the California Biennial 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z His desiccated body was found on a deserted island nearby, six months later. In the Footsteps of Charles Darwin 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z The cinematographer Agnès Godard shoots the wintry Swiss setting in desiccated blue tones, making the empty field between the line and the house look particularly purgatorial. ‘The Line’ Review: Family Boundaries 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z “Everyone focuses on the desiccated grapes and their concentrated flavors, but no one mentions the stalks,” he said. Turns out, the stem end’s the beginning of something great 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z The observant gamer will see the autumn wind blow desiccated maple leaves around the streets as the Willis Tower gleams in the distance. Delay Tests Video Game Developer 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z Blossoms the shape and color of flame sit atop thorny tentacles of ocotillo, the dead ones collapsed and desiccated like ropes. "Finding the bones was heartbreaking": What I learned about migrants picking up trash at the border 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z When a nearby dam desiccated the waterfall, the town’s sole beauty spot, tourists fled and commerce withered. Review: O, for a Muse of Fire, or a Comptroller, to Save ‘Popcorn Falls’ 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z As much as he adores his kids, their chronic sleep problems have desiccated his marriage, leaving him with a guilty thirst for physical contact. Sex and the middle-aged man 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z If you want one piece to convince you that the highest achievements of contemporary music are the opposite of desiccated, solipsistic experimentalism, listen to Boulez's orchestral versions of his Notations. A guide to Pierre Boulez's music 2012-07-16T15:49:00Z Rather than explain in a series of text messages that they are a desiccated husk of a human, the ghoster simply puts down the phablet and is never heard from again. Guide to online dating behaviours 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Thus, a sniper’s bullet claims its victim’s life a full decade after being fired, a hand reaches from the ground in an overgrown yard, desiccated digits turn up in a cookie tin. ‘Skeleton Road’; Crisscrossing plots, with a turn for the philosophical 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z I believe there is a cold, empty vastness where compassion and empathy and kindness should be within Trump’s black, desiccated soul. Who’s the real insane clown posse? Trump fans give Juggalos a run for their money in “7 Days in Ohio” 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z Second place receives a set of three genuine dried scorpions — along with a black-light flashlight that, when trained upon the desiccated critters, is supposed to make them glow. Style Invitational Week 1313: Dead Letters — our obit poem contest 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z The desiccated procedure of modern life soon reveals itself as a proscenium. The Two Faces of Suicide 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z In her hands, a hunk of desiccated wood is also a sparky transmitter. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z At other times, he zeros in on similarities, like those between the weathered faces and the desiccated terrain, suggesting ideas that the characters don’t voice. ‘Utama’ Review: This Bitter Earth 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Photo: SMG PC Plods with complexions like desiccated farm slurry apprehend sundry local "characters" against a backdrop of porridge-grey Glasgow drizzle. Top Gear, New Tricks, Lewis ? the television shows that won't die 2011-08-12T23:11:04Z But it also can be seen as an expression of unruly vitality, defiantly growing in a desiccated habitat. In the galleries: Many ways to express ‘Light & Movement’ 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Their trunks are shaggy with the desiccated foliage of previous seasons, which eventually falls off to reveal treelike bark. Joshua Tree National Park: Into the wild, hours from L.A. 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z There are also some golf ball-sized chocolate balls covered in desiccated coconut. Eurovision 2013: Reporter's log 2013-05-16T16:55:24Z The exhibition, which opens Thursday and runs to June 17, features mummified, desiccated, galvanized and pickled brains - testament to our sometimes misguided attempts at scientific understanding. Brains! London exhibition looks inside our skulls 2012-03-27T16:31:04Z Alas, this is a series that takes its desert setting too seriously and runs on humor so far beyond dry as to be desiccated. Showtime's "Moonbase 8" has all the right stuff for glory but never gets off the ground 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z Missing in their account, obviously, was Varèse’s extraordinary instrumental palette with its heaving groans and desiccated chitters. Music Review: International Contemporary Ensemble at Yamaha Piano 2010-07-08T21:25:00Z Then the desiccated bodies would be washed with vinegar and dressed in friars’ robes, or, for laypeople, in their own clothing. A morbid tourist attraction in Sicily? Of corpse! 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z I like to add a tablespoon of unsweetened desiccated coconut to my banana fritters, for a bit of extra texture. Festive recipes from around the world 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z Equally creepy was the arm's colour, which was not Caucasian flesh tone but not brown either, the way most desiccated body parts are. Getting stuffed: a tale of love and taxidermy 2013-04-13T20:31:46Z In an age of desiccated puzzle-stories, “Maniac” puts emotion first, even at the risk of sentimentality. Review: ‘Maniac’ Is a Hallucinatory, Emotional Dream Machine 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z You would see people in wheelchairs who were desiccated. An Activist’s Path: A Q&A with the Oscar-nominated director of How to Survive a Plague 2013-02-21T13:00:05Z As Western drought and aridification desiccate soils, shrink mountain snowpack runoff and reduce river flows, irrigating alfalfa for dairy production will become more and more problematic. Dairy, drought and the drying of the American West 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Distribute the desiccated coconut evenly across the pan. Creme fraiche recipes | Readers’ Recipe Swap 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z Why don’t doctors prescribe desiccated thyroid more often? Pickle juice, yellow mustard for muscle cramps 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Other works capture the flowers as they are stripped of their seeds, leaving desiccated stalks. Hung Liu's spectacular take on a humble flower 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Green live oaks dotted the otherwise desiccated landscape while the Pacific Ocean glittered below. Volunteers wanted: Must love Santa Barbara's great outdoors. And sheep 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z His insider account reveals the cravenness that has desiccated the party of Lincoln and left it in the clutches of careerists, conspiracists and con men. Mitt Romney gets out of Dodge | Horsey cartoon 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z The two specimens, which Mr. Maussan said were found in Peru in 2017, were tiny in stature and chalky in color; each had three-fingered hands and what appeared to be shrunken or desiccated heads. Mummies From Outer Space? Mexico’s Congress Gets a Firsthand Look 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z The apparently desiccated bodies date back to 2017 and were found deep underground in the sandy Peruvian coastal desert of Nazca. UFOs, little green men: Mexican lawmakers hear testimony on possible existence of extraterrestrials 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z But for more than 20 years, she's watched the once-thriving oasis become increasingly desiccated and polluted with agricultural runoff and waste. California’s Salton Sea eyed for lithium extraction with new tech 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z The sequence of a wet season that allows grasses to grow, followed by a dry spell that desiccates them, results in a particularly high fuel load for fires, Brewington said. Chaos and terror: Failed communications left Maui residents trapped by fire, unable to escape 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z That meant green crops and contented owners operated just across the way from desiccated fields and emptied farm camps. Diana Marcum, Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter for Los Angeles Times, dies 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z The wind desiccated the bodies and, combined with the bacteria-slowing effect of cold temperatures, mummified them. These mummies were made … by accident? 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z El Nino brings more rain to the Horn, unlike the triple-dip La Nina, which desiccated the region. Explainer: How El Nino is helping drive heatwaves and extreme weather 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z “All it takes is a couple of weeks of really hot, dry weather and all of that stuff gets desiccated and it just becomes fuel,” he said of the vegetation that sprouted in the spring. US forest managers urge revelers to swap fireworks for Silly String, but some say not so fast 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z He dedicated scarce water to building up agriculture, helping to desiccate the ancient Persian system of underground aqueduct-like canals known as qanats. In Iran, Some Are Chasing the Last Drops of Water 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z The decline of the Salton Sea, however, does not mean Southern California will forever be protected against a San Andreas earthquake as long as that area is desiccating. Why hasn't L.A. seen a big San Andreas quake recently? Researchers find a clue 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z El Nino brings more rain to the Horn, unlike the triple-dip La Nina which desiccated the region. Explainer: How El Nino could impact the world's weather in 2023-24 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z As central Spain's Tirez Lagoon dried up over 20 years, becoming entirely desiccated by 2015, its barren landscape began to evoke arid Martian plains. Dried-Up Lagoon Is ‘Time Analog’ for Martian Life 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z The extremes make for a brutal cycle in which hillsides stripped of trees by summer wildfires, and lands desiccated by drought, fail to absorb rainfall — in this case biblical amounts of it. In Flood-Stricken Area of Italy, Residents Fear This Won’t Be the Last of It 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z Lichens can survive extended periods of drought, when they become completely desiccated, and then rapidly become active once water is available again. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Hotter conditions have also caused more moisture to evaporate from the landscape, desiccating croplands and causing millions of livestock to starve. Climate change caused catastrophic East Africa drought, scientists say 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z She met with people on the desiccated shores of the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan and saw fishing boats abandoned on the dry bed of what was once Bolivia’s Lake Poopó. Running and cycling to raise awareness of global water issues 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z All the distraction and disinformation spewed onto the desiccated landscape of journalism by Fox News has helped lead America into our current dystopia. Here's the real lesson of the Fox News trial: It's time to break up Big Media 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z In the Indian coastal state of Kerala, where coconuts are abundant, vegetable korma is made with desiccated fresh coconut and coconut milk. 5 festive dishes for an easy Eid al-Fitr lunch 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Granted, I was working with particularly desiccated brown sugar, but the oven made no dent in the small or large chunks. Advice | How to soften brown sugar and keep it from drying out 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Where once a wetland of reeds, birds, fish and amphibians thrived, there are now dairy farms, human waste sites and farm fields operating on the bottom of the desiccated lake. Acres of L.A. County sewage sludge threaten to contaminate Tulare Lake floodwaters 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z He installed a wind gauge on the roof that would sound an alarm in his bedroom, alerting him whenever the lawn risked being desiccated by a breeze. The Brilliant Inventor Who Made Two of History’s Biggest Mistakes 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z My point is that all the distraction and disinformation spewed onto the desiccated landscape of journalism by Fox News has helped lead us into our current dystopia. Here's the real lesson of the Fox News trial: It's time to break up Big Media 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The piece’s main feature is a hanging funnel of desiccated flora suspended over a golden half orb surrounded by more lifeless foliage, arranged with stones and ashes in a rough circle on the floor. Review | In the galleries: Fiber-based materials yield remarkable art 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Over the last 23 years, the watershed has been desiccated by the worst drought in centuries, which has been intensified by rising temperatures. California offers proposal on Colorado River crisis, disagreeing with six states 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Instead, desiccated twigs crunch like potato chips each time Simard takes a step. With forests in peril, she’s on a mission to save ‘mother trees’ They are eating off paper plates, skipping showers and fretting about whether they have staked their fates on what could become a desiccated ghost suburb. Skipped Showers, Paper Plates: An Arizona Suburb’s Water Is Cut Off 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z When moisture is unavailable, that translates to a desiccated landscape and drought. Northern California sees historic deluge as atmospheric river slams state 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z Damian, who has lived in Bakersfield for 16 years, said she feels deeply concerned seeing the river completely dry, its desiccated ecosystem deteriorating. In Bakersfield, a lawsuit aims to turn a dry riverbed into a flowing river 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z At the same time, summers have experienced record-breaking temperatures that have desiccated vegetation and soils. Water Wells Go Dry as California Feels Warming Impacts 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Indeed the land is desiccated in the country, where prolonged droughts have become more common since 2000, with the current one the worst in four decades. Dying lands: Farmers fight to save the 'skin of the Earth' 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z In a desiccated grassy patch next to a massive 1970s-era conference center, for example, exhaust-spewing diesel trucks rumbled by just meters from where the scientists collected field data. Pioneering urban ecology finds surprising biodiversity in Berlin’s green spaces 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z But if you make the walls too thin, your jack-o’-lantern’s fangs will become inward-curving skin tabs as the pulp desiccates and deforms. How to Stop Your Jack-o’-Lantern from Rotting 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z The gaping holes in the skin would have enabled any gasses and fluids associated with decomposition to seep out of the dinosaur, thus helping the skin to thoroughly dry out, or “desiccate.” Remarkable Dinosaur Mummy Has ‘Glittering’ Skin Gouged by Ancient Crocs 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z The second theory posits that Dakota's carcass desiccated. How to mummify a dinosaur: New findings reveal exceptionally intact dinosaurs 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z What remains on the landscape is a body of skin and bones that then slowly desiccates and deflates, eventually preserved for the eons. ‘Dino Mummy’ Reveals There May Be More Skin in the Fossil Game 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z But in the dry volcanic valley, punished by sun and desiccating wind, the newcomers built virtually no homes. The reality of legal weed in California: Huge illegal grows, violence, worker exploitation and deaths 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z “There’s this moment when we have these really high winds blowing over this desiccated landscape that experienced a whole summertime of no precipitation,” Hall said. Not even soaking rain can ease fire risk in a California hit by record heat, dry landscape 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z But it may take another round or two of wet weather to make up for the months of drought that desiccated farm fields, depleted reservoirs, and sparked wildfires in the Northeast. Northeast drought endangers Massachusetts’ cranberry harvest 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z The second theory posits that Dakota's carcass desiccated or dried out. How to mummify a dinosaur: New findings reveal exceptionally intact dinosaurs 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z At one point, they grunted and heaved a desiccated corpse, dressed in a winter jacket and pants, to the surface. At Mass Grave Site in Ukraine’s Northeast, a Sign of Occupation’s Toll 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z The branch, plucked from one of thousands of trees in this densely packed olive grove, has browning leaves and a few tiny, desiccated buds that are bunched near the end. The Olive Oil Capital of the World, Parched 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z With experts now predicting a rare, third consecutive year of dry La Niña conditions, the combination of winds and desiccated fuel could prove perilous. Not even soaking rain can ease fire risk in a California hit by record heat, dry landscape 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z This desiccated landscape reinforces extreme heat, leading to drought and extreme wildfire behavior. Record rain is hitting drought-stricken areas. That’s not good news. 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Kenyan pastoralists are losing their herds as the Horn of Africa's worst drought in 40 years leaves pasture desiccated and cows with nothing to eat. German troops will only stay in Mali if security needs met - foreign minister 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z We have not had much rain in a while, but neither could we claim that Friday left us feeling parched or desiccated. On eve of Labor Day weekend, it seemed summery, and also pleasant 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z There's "a critical point", though, when the tree can't replenish the water lost through pores in the leaves and will "literally desiccate" or dry up. UK drought: Why do the trees think it's autumn already? 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z On the usually verdant Abu Nawas Street, one construction worker looked delirious from the heat as he slumped against a desiccated tree. Iraq broils in dangerous 120-degree heat as power grid shuts down 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z It has burned an area roughly twice the size of Disney World as high temperatures have helped desiccate the landscape, and the ground is replete with dry fuels available to burn. Major heat wave to swell over Lower 48 after records fall in Northwest 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z They cite desiccated carcasses found in Tsavo National Park, where much wildlife has fled in recent years in search of water. Climate change is killing more elephants than poaching, Kenyan officials say 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z As California fell deeper into a second year of drought in the spring, officials warned of a potentially catastrophic 2022 fire season across the state’s desiccated landscape. California’s Largest Wildfire Slows After Exploding Near Yosemite 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z In a sense, with California’s Mediterranean climate and rain-free months, they save some of California’s worst heat for the end of the dry season when vegetation is most desiccated and fire-prone. For coastal L.A., the hottest days of summer are yet to come 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z That includes things like dead tree trunks and fallen branches, dead leaves and desiccated grass. EXPLAINER: What’s behind Europe’s spate of deadly wildfires? 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z To learn more about treating hypothyroidism with levothyroxine or desiccated thyroid extract, you may wish to read our eGuide to Thyroid Hormones. Prednisone speeds recovery from severe poison ivy reaction 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z In Italy, the government has declared a state of emergency in the desiccated Po Valley - the country's longest river is no more than a trickle in some places. Europe heatwave: Deadly wildfires spread in Mediterranean 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z Receding waters of Lake Mead National Recreation Area have revealed the skeletal remains of two people along with countless desiccated fish and what has become a graveyard of forgotten and stranded watercraft. AP PHOTOS: Amid drought, Lake Mead 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z The snow line is creeping higher in the region, and the desiccated grasses, brush and tree limbs have become ready fuel for large wildfires. Yellowstone to Weigh Climate Change Risks When Rebuilding From Flood 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z She had left six other children behind in Beledweyne, about 200 miles away, on a small, desiccated farm with her goats dying. ‘We Buried Him and Kept Walking’: Children Die as Somalis Flee Hunger 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z They buy the broad outlines of the boomers’ nostalgia and take it to mean they are inheriting a desiccated society. Opinion | Why Are We Still Governed by Baby Boomers and the Remarkably Old? 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Soil that should have been moist was as desiccated as the air, while the humidity hovered just above single digits. Climate change whiplashes us from drought to deluge 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z The day’s task: Carefully sowing hundreds of acres of seed between long rows of last year’s desiccated stalks to ensure the irrigation water he’s collected over the winter will last until harvest time. Colorado, Nebraska jostle over water rights amid drought 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z So you may need to find an alternative way to keep your plants from desiccating in the summer sun. One way around California's water restrictions: Recycle water from your laundry 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z This was, presumably, necessary to preserve McCarthy’s desiccated dream of advancement to the speakership. Opinion | Kevin McCarthy is a shining symbol of democratic decay 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z Some of the animals emerged shriveled and desiccated, like little mummies. As Australia’s climate changes, a tropical disease advances 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Others have taken a stab at greening the forlorn and mostly desiccated land. Composting is life-altering for Californians who want a role fighting climate change 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Each passing dry storm system is followed by desiccating winds lasting two or three days. Why it's been so warm and windy in Southern California this winter 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z Vegetation is desiccated, and forests are vulnerable to pests, such as bark beetles, making fire seasons year-round affairs, not merely a threat during seasonal periods of dry offshore Santa Ana winds. California drought, Australia floods: Two sides of La Niña amplified by climate change 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z With traditional foraging grounds either desiccated or charred by flames, bears are moving to lower elevations in search of food and coming into dangerous contact with humanity. Mother bears and cubs battle for survival as wildfire, drought and traffic take heavy toll 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z Museum curators tasked with preserving plastic artifacts know all too well that plastics discolor, desiccate, fissure and fracture, undergoing a range of physical changes, including becoming micro- and even nano-scaled particles. Perspective | Five myths about plastics 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z They amount to desiccated tree graveyards, littered with slashed branches and stumps whose rings attest to their advanced age. This tree has stood here for 500 years. Will it be sold for $17,500? The newly grown vegetation turned into fuel for Thursday’s fire once it became desiccated by months of drought. How extreme climate conditions fueled unprecedented Colorado fire 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Amid the cuts, desiccated lawns and shorter showers became commonplace across the region. California considers $500 fines for water wasters as drought worsens, conservation lags 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z The region had its longest drought on record from 2012 through 2017, and this year, another drought desiccated much of Brazil. A Slow-Motion Climate Disaster: The Spread of Barren Land 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Sure, everyone praises the turkey, provided that the breast is not desiccated and the thigh is not bloody. Opinion | Let’s be honest: The roast turkey was bequeathed to us by Satan 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z But the winds also desiccate vegetation and create dangerous wildfire conditions. How a marine inversion over the L.A. Basin acted like a lid on a pot, trapping pollutants 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Bill Patzert, a retired climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, sounded an even stronger alarm, warning that one rainy winter would not be enough to pull the state out of its desiccated condition. Not even record-breaking rainstorm will end California's drought, experts say 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z This summer, the earth in parts of Arizona cracked – desiccated by decades of megadrought. Biden says talks on sweeping reconciliation bill down to ‘four or five issues’ – live 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z It was about as full as usual, cutting a sharp contrast with the desiccated lake beds where state officials have appeared in recent months, pleading with Californians to save water. Despite a Punishing Drought, San Diego Has Water. It Wasn’t Easy. 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z With megafires in recent years plaguing California, where forests and scrublands remain extremely desiccated by drought and other effects of climate change, the arsonist’s match is an especially potent threat. An Expert on the Criminal Mind, Now He’s Suspected in an Arson Spree 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z For the first time in months, California’s precipitation outlook map isn’t colored a desiccated brown, indicating drier-than-normal conditions. California and the West can see small glimmers of hope in weather outlooks for October 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z The “CSI” series likes visual gimmicks, arty framing and pans and dissolves, returning features to a desiccated corpse, or bringing a crime scene retrospectively to life. In the idealized America of CBS procedurals, cops can do no wrong 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Mahmad Akbar, 51, who sells used goods on a road overlooking the desiccated Kabul River, said he had recently watched people cry when they handed over cherished belongings. Across Kabul, evidence of Afghanistan’s fast-unraveling economy under the Taliban is everywhere 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z It is a combination of two things: a lack of rain and those thirsty atmospheric conditions that desiccate the landscape. A 'thirsty' atmosphere is propelling Northern California's drought into the record books 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z Since adult lanternflies usually start emerging in July and the specimen was “worn and desiccated,” officials said the boy’s insect may have died last year, Otto wrote in a statement to The Post. A Kansas boy entered a unique insect at the state fair. It triggered a federal investigation 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Officials fear lightning strikes amid vegetation desiccated by drought conditions will ignite new fires. Dixie fire charges north, forcing new evacuations as crews face 'very concerning' weather 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z A series of orbital missions over the past 2 decades has detected tantalizing signs of the stuff across the Moon’s surface, defying past notions of a desiccated planetary body. NASA-funded startups will soon put a fleet of landers on the Moon 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z The blazes in Sierra forests have exposed the domino effects of climate change on firefighting challenges: Frequent heat waves and overall higher temperatures have desiccated West Coast flora, making it more vulnerable to large fires. To Save Lake Tahoe, They Spared No Expense. The Fire Came Over the Ridge Anyway. 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Many are in the West, burning trees and brush desiccated by drought. Crews battle to protect Lake Tahoe region from wildfire 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z By sniffing the H2O-containing gas plumes gushing out of its volcanoes, scientists would learn whether its interior is as desiccated as its exterior. NASA Just Broke the ‘Venus Curse’: Here’s What It Took 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Not only were most of the seed pods desiccated and empty, those that remained had two or three seeds. ‘There was nothing we could save’: Heat wave cooked Walla Walla sweet onions to mush 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z “The great forests, the Sierra and the Rockies becoming more and more desiccated and more prone to these extreme fire situations.” 'Heat waves are killers,' and a scorching one is likely to hit California this weekend 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z “High temperature, low humidity days help desiccate the vegetation,” she said. Against Expectations, Southwestern Summers Are Getting Even Drier 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z Place your buckets of branches in a cool location, like a basement, garage or mudroom, away from sunlight and heat sources that could desiccate the stems. How to hurry up spring by coaxing new buds into extra-early blooms in the Northwest 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z The fall and winter seasons are also the time when strong, desiccating offshore winds develop in California. California's rainy season is starting about a month later than it did in the 1960s, researchers say 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z The fate of the larger town of Aghdam, further north, is even more stark, its buildings split open to the skies on a desiccated plain, its main bridge destroyed. After Nagorno-Karabakh War, Trauma, Tragedy and Devastation 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z I really liked finely chopped roasted peanuts, and desiccated coconut was eye-catching. These caramel apples are all treat, no tricks 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z By that time, all the vegetation is desiccated and primed for fire. Moderate Santa Ana winds likely to bring critical fire weather to parts of the Southland 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z In the winter, it desiccates into a brown skeleton. Opinion | A Toxic Alien Is Taking Over Russia 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z “The settlers don’t like competition,” Nassasra said on a recent afternoon, fingering one of the desiccated grape bunches, a severed irrigation pipe at his feet. The famed ‘Jericho banana’ is vanishing. Under Israeli occupation, there’s not enough water. 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z The desiccated vegetation was perfect tinder for fires intentionally set by ranchers clearing land for their cattle. 'Apocalyptic' fires are ravaging the world's largest tropical wetland 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z But those blazes, fueled by drought, now burn with historic force, racing across desiccated vegetation. Burned jaguars, fire tornadoes: Blazes in Brazil wetland deliver climate warning 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z The desiccated pastures and forests ready to burn, the choking haze, the oppressive heat — the planet feels sick in Northern California. 4 Years of Catastrophic Fires in California: ‘I’m Numb’ 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z “It was more interesting to find a desiccated hot dog that Babe Ruth partially digested than a signed baseball or bat.” Terry Cannon, founder of the quirky Pasadena-based Baseball Reliquary, dies at 66 2020-08-13T04:00:00Z He will drain you and leave a desiccated corpse where your reputation used to be. Jeff Sessions' downfall: The wages of loyalty to Donald Trump is public humiliation 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z It’s pretty much a shallow, round flapjack with the addition of desiccated coconut. So, your oats: 17 ways to go beyond porridge, from fruity granola to Scottish cranachan 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z In my classrooms, half-finished clay projects littered the countertops, while palettes loaded with acrylic paint and incomplete canvases were left to desiccate and gather dust on the shelves. Teaching across an abyss of silence 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z “We were very surprised to find that they stored - at least some of them - much longer when they were refrigerated or stored desiccated,” Yoshinaga said. Hawaii university program keeping plants from extinction 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Sparked in a region desiccated by drought, a few hours north of San Francisco, it would also be a harbinger of how the climate crisis is transforming the natural world. 'It sounded evil': inside the eerie moment California’s deadliest wildfire began 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z We march in May against this desiccated worldview; we march for humanity. U.S. continues sanctions against Iran and Venezuela during coronavirus pandemic 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z When Kristof returned home decades later, he discovered that his once peaceful hometown was desiccated by addiction, depression and financial strife. The middle-class squeeze, brilliant fantasies, lab love and ostriches: 5 top book events 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z I spent a lot of time looking at those leaves: holding them up to the light, observing the delicate webbings, the desiccated veins, crumbling them slowly between my fingers. Splendid isolation: how I stopped time by sitting in a forest for 24 hours 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Who would not think twice about living out a life on this remote, landlocked, desiccated ground? Tabula Rasa: Volume One 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Unlucky drivers in Washington state saw in the new year trapped under a glut of 15ft tumbleweeds, after the desiccated but mobile plants forced authorities to close a highway in both directions. Ambushed: 15ft tumbleweeds trap drivers and force road closure 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z Then the second Griswold applies knife to skin, the bird explodes into a desiccated corpse, with a final belch of smoke/dust arising from the overcooked beast. Perspective | The 10 greatest food scenes from holiday movies and what they really mean 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z The reservoir on Mr. Hamilton’s 6,000-acre property is empty, and the land where knee-high wheat should be flourishing this time of year is desiccated. As Water Runs Low, Can Life in the Outback Go On? 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Tinder-dry vegetation has blown into power lines, sparking fires fanned by high winds across a landscape desiccated from drought and climate change. Utility to pay $360M for major Southern California wildfires 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z They knew the landscape of California, which always becomes desiccated in the late summer and early fall, would dry out more in a hotter climate. Opinion | Fire, Floods and Power Outages: Our Climate Future Has Arrived 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z The region has been on high alert as notoriously powerful Santa Ana winds brought dry desert air to a desiccated landscape that only needed a spark to erupt. Winds dying as crews fight flames in Southern California 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Fecal transplants from healthy donors, administered through colonoscopy or capsules containing desiccated stool, reintroduce beneficial bacteria to the guts of ailing patients, providing resistance against C. difficile. Seeking an Obesity Cure, Researchers Turn to the Gut Microbiome 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z About 50,000 people in the Sierra Nevada foothills were displaced by the Camp Fire, when high winds ripped through desiccated woodland. Forced to leave Paradise: Life after one of America’s deadliest wildfires 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z If you want coconut but can’t use fresh, you can use desiccated coconut. The recipe that reminds me of home 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z They desiccate when temperatures plummet, sidestepping the potential hazard of ice forming in their tissues. Ancient life awakens amid thawing ice caps and permafrost 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z “It’s the only real thing in there,” said Guardabasso, comparing the fresh vegetables to the desiccated potatoes. Life on Mars gets a test run in the Utah desert 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z For over four decades, tourists and residents have been able to order an alcoholic cocktail of their choice served with a desiccated human toe floating inside. UK man donates frostbitten toe to Yukon bar 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Not quite “empire of the dead” material, but reading those words, you half expect to see the desiccated skeletons of amateur golfers lining the fairways. Golf needs more sinister courses like Bethpage Black - Golf Digest 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z She could picture herself researching mummification, and looking up the word “desiccated,” but not standing in front of a room to share her findings. “The Presentation on Egypt” 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z “That arid, desiccate landscape … it’s not burdened by the profound history of farmers,” Till said. What remains of Bears Ears It must have floated, he said, and to have done so it must have been encased in desiccated tissue—suggesting that at least one dinosaur species was alive at the time of the impact. The Day the Dinosaurs Died 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Stephen A. Smith loves nothing more than picking apart the desiccated carcass of a story. Turkey vulture crashes into Stephen A. Smith's ESPN office, might have smelled one of its own - Golf Digest 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Dramatic droughts have desiccated the corn and bean farms of Mexico’s northern Coahuila state. Their ancestors fled U.S. slavery for Mexico. Now they’re looking north again. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Turner thought the 99th meridian, the place where the prairie meets the desiccated plains, as good a place as any to symbolically mark the frontier. How violent American vigilantes at the border led to Trump’s wall 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z They proved the planet in ancient times was very different to the freezing, desiccated world we see today. Nasa calls time on Opportunity Mars rover 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z The prevailing ethic in New Hampshire is bitter envy of everything, a desiccated unwelcoming treatment of strangers unless, of course, there’s a nickel to be made. Opinion | As a Vermonter, I know: New Hampshire doesn’t deserve the first primary 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z Directed with bare-knuckled verve by Karyn Kusama, this plunge into the corruption and class stratifications of modern-day L.A. plays like the desiccated, far more pessimistic cousin of “Widows,” which addresses similarly dark corners of Chicago. ‘Destroyer’: Even Nicole Kidman can’t save this pulpy whodunit 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z “Digital First is the worst owner of newspapers in America and they will do their best to draw blood from even Gannett’s already desiccated stone,” wrote Joshua Benton, the director of Nieman Journalism Lab. Hedge Fund Called ‘Destroyer of Newspapers’ Bids for USA Today Owner Gannett 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z On a recent day, he parked his Jeep and walked down a hill to the snowy, desiccated lake bed with David Primus, who has studied the history of the Gunnison Valley for over 40 years. Man flooded the town of Iola; now nature is bringing back its ghost 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Every few feet you catch the smell of desiccated corpses. Iraq’s Post-ISIS Campaign of Revenge 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z The first was “Strange Fruit,” the installation of dozens of desiccated peels of fruits she had consumed, all painstakingly reassembled over five years with zippers, wire and thread. In quiet yet visceral works, Zoe Leonard captures the frailty, pain and eccentricities of human life 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z This is a woefully desiccated and undignified way to describe, or to remember, any person, actual or archetypical, in all his specifics or as a symbol of his country. Shades of Darkness in “King Kong” and “American Son” 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z When he walked through his vineyards, he would see patches of grapes that were browned and desiccated. Italy’s wine industry is being tested by the effects of climate change in its vineyards 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z But the Depression shown here is largely schmaltz, and every tension points to one desiccated source—the bank. “Girl from the North Country” Brings Bob Dylan to the Stage 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z The desiccated little Christmas tree, its needles all over the floor. More than 40 years ago, I was raped. I never told 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z He said the blaze was stoked by thick vegetation left desiccated by prolonged drought. Wyoming wildfire forces evacuations, closes highway south of Jackson 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z But there is no reason to think that anyone is likely to benefit from deliberately desiccating themselves during workouts, he says. Why We All Need to Drink More During Hot Weather Exercise 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z With temperatures at times reaching into the triple digits, unpredictable winds and desiccated brush that serves as kindling, there’s no end in sight to this year’s fire season. Breathing “a chore”: California wildfires threaten the health of young and old 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Sometimes, like this year, they are torrential, producing explosive plant growth that, several months later, desiccates into prime accelerant. As California burns, many fear the future of extreme fire has arrived 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z No other category offers the spectacle of modern ruin at such horrifying scale: the scars of familiar logos on storefronts, the desiccated planters, the sheer volume of emptiness and waste. Letter of Recommendation: Dead Malls 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z The challenge any Martian microbes would face is resisting the osmotic potential which acts to draw water out of cells and leave them in a desiccated heap. Huge underground lake raises prospects of life on Mars, say astronomers 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z But early in its promising existence the planet somehow lost its way, transforming into a desiccated orb of dried-up ocean-, river- and lakebeds. Deep Within Mars, Liquid Water Offers Hope for Life 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z On his plantation, desiccated trees lie mostly bare. Swollen shoot disease worsening in heart of Ivory Coast cocoa belt 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Salazar says the remains were in a desiccated or dried-up state. Baby’s remains found in trunk in drug search at Texas home 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z To the other nominees, a hearty thanks and an extra handful of desiccated mealworms. When Silicon Valley Disrupts the Chicken Coop 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z They collected footprints, while debating what the footprint of a live tiger would look like, since the only examples they had were impressions made from the desiccated paws of museum specimens. The Obsessive Search for the Tasmanian Tiger 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z They told me of the many human carcasses, desiccated and bleached by the relentless sun, that punctuated the landscape. Opinion | I don’t recognize this country anymore 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Hayes’ poems crawl along these pages, like bugs marching among shattered, desiccated carcasses, spreading a stinging, stinking, humming “odor, an almost / Imperceptible ode to death.” The right poetry collection for right now: Terrance Hayes' 'American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin' 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Diners would be invited to sprinkle the lamb with desiccated seaweed flakes that tasted a bit like truffles. Koks, the World’s Most Remote Foodie Destination 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Bridge Creek devolved into a narrow trench bordered by desiccated pastures. Beaver dams without beavers? Artificial logjams are a popular but controversial restoration tool 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z From its top emerges a dead branch with a few desiccated leaves: nature’s white flag of surrender. A 14-foot-long painting of trash makes an epic argument for 'The Feminine Sublime' 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z Both forearms were green as well, but the right one was still covered in desiccated flesh. The Baby’s Hand Was Mummified. Why Wasn’t the Rest of Its Body? 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z On the evening of 8 October 2017, severe gusts of dry winds blew across desiccated grasses and diseased trees caused by years of excessive heat and drought. California burning: life among the wildfires 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z In Uzbekistan, the entire eastern basin of the South Aral Sea is completely desiccated, leaving merely a single strip of water in the west. Once Written Off for Dead, the Aral Sea Is Now Full of Life 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Last week my doctor switched me to Armour desiccated thyroid. Black pepper is rich in benefits 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z Then, like Alice through the looking glass, I stepped through a door still bearing a desiccated Christmas wreath, and that’s when everything got awesome. Opinion | Graceland, at Last 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z Now, abandoned fishing boats rust and splinter on the burning salt, amid skeins of desiccated fishing nets and grubby flamingo feathers. The ecological catastrophe that turned a vast Bolivian lake into a salt desert 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Armour Thyroid is desiccated thyroid gland from pigs. How good are gummy supplements? 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z Creators young and old sent green shoots up through desiccated genres — everything from memoir to textbook to all-ages fantasy burst with talent this year. The 10 best comics of 2017 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z “This year however no rain came in September, October and November in Southern California. So we have incredibly desiccated dry fuels,” he said. ‘Out of control’ Southern California fire explodes as growing blazes force tens of thousands to flee 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z But just 61 seconds after flames licked the needles of a desiccated conifer, the tree was reduced to smoldering branches. Don’t let a dry tree ruin Christmas 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The ride is spectacularly scenic, with so much desiccated geological splendor outside your window that you can’t help but slow down to regard with awe the cathedrals of stone and the painted hills. Prepare to be fascinated by a remote Oregon golf course (Psst: And it's not Bandon Dunes) - Golf Digest 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z The recently reconfigured creek is designed to serve as the lifeblood to this sprawling wetland, which was ditched and drained and desiccated over a century-long era of anthropogenic imposition. The great rewilding 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z I can see sweeps of golden desiccated cornstalks out both the front and rear windows of my house. Stardew Valley for Switch Is the Farming Game's Ideal Home 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Water safety inspectors visiting Camp Pendleton over several days in late June uncovered rats rotting on a reservoir gate, a desiccated frog clinging to a reservoir ladder and another rodent carcass floating in treated water. With rats and frogs in Camp Pendleton water supply, base agrees to federal decree 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z "Vesta was expected to be a desiccated body." Giant Asteroid Vesta May Have Buried Ice 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Finally, they further desiccate and sanitize it in a thermal dryer that runs on scavenged cardboard. The new economy of excrement 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Patzert of JPL said September is “the heat wave month” so the risk of other fires will persist as brush and grasses and other vegetation continue to become dry and desiccated. Weather delivers blow to La Tuna fire's spread: 'Mother Nature kicked in' 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z But the election of Trump shows just how desiccated the mainline code has become. Turning off the Trump soap opera 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z But so, in its desiccated and less emotionally appealing way, is the legal and ethical framework that exists to protect them. The Charlie Gard case is heartbreaking, but society can’t shun its experts | Gaby Hinsliff 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z But not quite to this extreme, desiccating degree. Cult of Cristiano Ronaldo distracts from Real Madrid’s brilliance | Barney Ronay 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Taking desiccated thyroid was life changing for me. Could Be the Thyroid; Could Be Ennui. Either Way, the Drug Isn’t Helping. 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z You’ll rarely find a strip of desiccated brisket, even on the lean side. Review | Myron Mixon’s Pitmaster Barbeque gives Alexandria a grand champion 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z Maurice’s grandmother told him that, anticipating the arrival of Sherman’s troops, she and her neighbors had buried smoked pork shoulders, hams, bacon, and sausage, covering them with desiccated leaves to disguise fresh digging. America’s Most Political Food 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z “The Christian Right had been left for dead, but in just two years its desiccated organizations had revived and swollen like some desert plants after a rain,” Fitzgerald writes. Opinion | How Trump breathed new life into the cultural war waged by evangelicals 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z The fighting has displaced more than 3 million people, and left a previously fertile region desiccated and barren. 20 million people are at risk of starving to death. Here’s how it got so bad. Taking desiccated thyroid was life changing for me. Could Be the Thyroid; Could Be Ennui. Either Way, the Drug Isn’t Helping. 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z The only signs of farms are the faint outlines of what were once fields etched into the desiccated land. Hunger amplifies infectious diseases for millions fleeing the violence of Boko Haram 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z On each trip, Oumar sees more desiccated corpses, covered and uncovered by the shifting sands. The Desperate Journey of a Trafficked Girl 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Aerial images showed a landscape of spider-webbed mudflats and desiccated tributaries as the reservoir fell to levels not seen in almost forty years. California’s Drought May Be Over, But Its Water Troubles Aren’t 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Flies circled a second skull, a torso and two desiccated hands that sat next to a brown sandal and a flowered blanket. Bone by bone, Iraqis unearth a mass grave: 'We will be out there digging until no one is left' 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z The prim, desiccated formality associated with libraries is absent here. An Elegy for the Library 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z To get from the lake’s desiccated past to its torrential present required an exceptional amount of precipitation. How Oroville went from drought to an overflowing dam in just two years 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z On the back porch were old pro-Nazi pamphlets and a copy of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and when moving a wardrobe Auster found a desiccated crow – “a classic omen of bad tidings”. Paul Auster: ‘I'm going to speak out as often as I can, otherwise I can't live with myself' 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z My lamb chops were bitter and mostly desiccated, as if someone forgot to marinate the bones before tossing them on the grill. Peru’s Chicken review: This pollo inspires passion — and justifies a drive 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z The silken threads of the state’s hypertechnical election laws — precise requirements on how ballot petitions must be annotated — can bind upstart candidates in litigation until they are as desiccated as bugs in a spider web. After 20 Years and 3 Trials, a Political Gadfly No Longer Needs a Day in Court 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z As for that desiccated Christmas tree drying up in the corner of your living room, shedding needles forlornly? People Get Cozy With Plants for Houseplant Appreciation Day 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z The giraffe—looking desiccated but not disfigured—was put on display in a clear, airless box. Killing Animals at the Zoo 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z The desiccated corpse was discovered by a man who was house shopping and ventured into the home’s garage on Thursday afternoon, spotting the body inside an early 1990s-model Plymouth sedan, police and coroner’s officials said. Mummified body found in Detroit garage by prospective house buyer 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z The desiccated corpse was discovered by a man who was house shopping and ventured into the home's garage on Thursday afternoon, spotting the body inside an early 1990s-model Plymouth sedan, police and coroner's officials said. Anthropologists to examine mummified body found in Detroit garage 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Why is a desiccated piece of fruit so important? With ‘Assassin’s Creed,’ you’ll know the big names, if not the video games 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Burtynsky shot mesmerizing vistas of mountain reservoirs, desiccated lakes, agriculture, and suburban sprawl. Edward Burtynsky’s Epic Landscapes 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Whole mature nuts are exported and sold to factories that produce desiccated coconut and coconut cream. The Coconut Could Be on the Verge of Collapse 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z She dug it up and pulled a desiccated mole from the trap’s half-cylinder. England Has a Mole Problem: Feuding Mole Catchers 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z A short drive from the guards’ camp, the remains of a rhino carcass lay near a watering hole, only a few joints of bone and desiccated hide left. In South Africa, a private army is fighting rhino poachers 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z It’s freezing up there, and there are mouse droppings and desiccated rubber bands. Just Like Trump, I Avoided Paying Federal Taxes 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z She needs to paint in big inspiring themes, not desiccated policy jargon. Millions in U.S. Climb Out of Poverty, at Long Last 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z “Having it be delicious isn’t necessarily the point,” he says of the desiccated vegetable matter. Why chefs love dehydrators, plus some recipes you might actually try 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z They uploaded their consciousness into the cloud, and let their bodies desiccate, decompose and disappear. Life in the clouds : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z It thrives where almost no other living creature can dwell: on wind-whipped mountaintops and rusty tin roofs and glacier-carved caves and cracks in the sidewalk, on frigid Antarctic rocks and desiccated desert sands. Moss is a master of mechanical engineering 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Droughts alternate with floods to desiccate eggs and drown adult snails. Deadly Brain Disease Is Driving Swamp Birds Insane Goats kick up white dust as they pass over the desiccated riverbed that marks the southern border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. 'I came here with nothing': life in limbo for unwilling migrants on Haiti's border 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The lapsed Catholic in me delighted in slaying those desiccated elders caught by the spirit. ‘Dark Souls 3′ review: A worthy addition to the series 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Macabre paintings of dead animals hang over a desiccated body tucked into a bed. Escape rooms are becoming a breakout form of entertainment 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z Hypothyroidism was treated for decades with extracts made from dried, or desiccated, pig thyroids. Doctors Hear Patients’ Calls for New Approaches to Hypothyroidism 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Through a cloud of dust, Vastag pulled a tangle of desiccated feathers and twigs from a gap between the drywall and cinder block. What ‘CSI’ and ‘NCIS’ don’t show you about the lives of crime-scene investigators 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Amid desiccated farmland and factories casting fumes into the sky, a flock of worshippers celebrates Holy Week. Celebrating Easter in China Where Faith Is Curtailed 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z If soil becomes desiccated and compacted, break up the surface with a fork or cultivator, then soak the plant in a bucket of water until the soil is thoroughly moistened. How the drought led an L.A. artist to create this stunning container garden 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Because of meager rainfall, the pines that survived 2013’s Rim Fire — the largest ever recorded in the Sierra Mountains — were too desiccated to produce sap, making them vulnerable to a booming bark beetle population. The Valley Below: San Francisco is keeping Yosemite Valley’s lost twin under water 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z It is desiccated potatoes, with which I am experimenting. For a time, D.C. seemed the red-hot epicenter of arctic exploration 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z After death, bodies are placed in a hut and smoked until the skin and internal organs are desiccated. Mummies Around the World—Dried, Smoked, or Thrown in a Bog 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z The desiccated remains of a slain and butchered cow lay on the ground. How Mexico secretly launched a crackdown after Penn met ‘El Chapo’ 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z Stepping in fresh boot prints, we passed a mess of uniform and bone: a desiccated head with hair; a tibia and femur, bent at the knee, the foot still socked and shod. The Fight for Mosul 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Farmers have turned to aquifers, pumping so much groundwater that in some places, desiccated fields have collapsed like fallen soufflés. Farmers Try Political Force to Twist Open California’s Taps 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Some stay in the desiccated and dangerous remnants of Los Angeles. Talk About the Weather 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z DWP is required by court settlements to provide water to the Owens River and dampen the desiccated Owens Lake to control unhealthy dust that has blown since its waters were siphoned south. LA Aqueduct flows after dam built for drought is dismantled 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z I don’t think one can go and look to a desiccated, dried-out, secular vision, which sometimes we get immersed in. Africans Defend Conservative Line on Gays, Divorce at Catholic Bishops’ Synod 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Install Saul Alinsky’s desiccated corpse as the new Speaker of the House? Gun nuts, too fanatical to recognize they’re winning: How they’ve come completely unhinged 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Women, unintimidated by settlers’ attempts to thwart their meetings, fold into yoga poses before desiccated olive groves on the outskirts of Bethlehem, dubbing their practice “inner resistance”. Photographing Life, Love and Laughter in Palestine 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z But now, he sees Habre as a desiccated, pathetic shell of a man. Victims of torture in Chad anticipate justice as dictator's trial proceeds 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z Nearly half of those buried in the town’s cemetery vaults turn into mummies after five or six years, say priests and cemetery workers—leaving desiccated bodies with well-preserved facial features, hair and clothing. In This Small Colombian Town, People Love Their Mummies 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Pittman added that the landscape has become so desiccated that its response to water, even if sprayed directly on grass and trees, is minimal. Fire in Northern California continues to grow, killing 1 and displacing 13,000 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Residents of more than 6,000 homes in California’s Gold Country have evacuated the threatened lands, defined by craggy terrain, desiccated timber and limited road access. Towns burn as destructive California wildfire overruns residents 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z In a future of sinking cities and desiccated crops, the next wave of migrants could be seeking asylum from another kind of violence entirely. Europe's next crisis: Climate change could create millions of new refugees 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z It is like living in a desiccated nook on the cliff wall of some dry, desert valley. Living in the age of permawar 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z The desiccated vegetation has become ideal fire fuel, Mr. Shelton said. Rocky Fire in California Defies Expectations and Defenses 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z “All my broods pretty much tanked and fried to a crisp. … The chicks just desiccated,” Plumb recalls. Feature: Researchers push to prevent a last dance for the lesser prairie chicken 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Mariela Santos, curator at the University of Tarapaca museum here, noticed a few years ago that the desiccated skins of a dozen of the mummies were decomposing and turning into a mysterious black ooze. Chile's quest to save melting mummies 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z "Farmers are seeing them much earlier than they would have because native plants have been desiccated, and they’re showing up in fields at a time when growers are not used to seeing them," says Trumble. California's drought has been a dream come true — for pests 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z This cracked and desiccated landscape, in Ethiopia's far north, occupies a dark corner of the global collective memory. Turning Ethiopia's desert green 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z The wood, though scarred and desiccated, was surprisingly smooth to the touch. The Movie Star and the Missing Totem Pole 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z The remnants are everywhere: in the desiccating waterways, in the frequent reimagining and remaking that the state attempts from time to time. A Native of Kashmir Shares a Story of Love and Woe for His Flood-Hit Homeland 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Pondering the landscape led to some intriguing thought experiments: What meal might be made, for instance, from a desiccated half of a lemon, a can of tuna, chicken stock, Modelo beer and Juicy Fruit gum? The Snow Is Melting! But What a Mess It Left Behind 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Densely covered with lines of black Greek characters, they had been extracted from a piece of desiccated cartonnage, a papier-mâché-like plaster that the Egyptians and Greeks used for everything from mummy cases to bookbindings. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Although Warburg died before Nazism came to a head, he knew very well the appeal of “Dionysian” imagery to modern people desiccated by rationality. The World’s Weirdest Library 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z The mounds also protect their builders — against the sun that would desiccate them, the seasonal rain that would drown them, and the many predators that would happily devour them. Termites Are Guardians of the Soil 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z The pork’s sad, desiccated state made me wonder if its shortcomings could be traced to its traveling time and holding units. BBQ Joint at Union Market: A place that smokes in moderation 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z In The Pale King, Wallace is concerned with that substantial part, with minds full of desiccated things. The Turbulent Genius of David Foster Wallace Their reverence for what is a “day after” for Yuletide revelers offers a model of how to avoid the after-Christmas doldrums that ensue as pine needles desiccate and tumbleweeds of wrapping paper strew living-room floors. For Many People, Dec. 26 Is Also a Day of Celebration 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z They caught bees, stuck them on pins, and stored their desiccated little bodies by the thousands in museum cabinets. Clues to Bees’ History, Tucked Away in Drawers 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z The Colorado River delta in Mexico, once home to thriving wetlands, is now desiccated. Preserving an Accident, the Salton Sea in California, for the Good of Nature 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z All desiccated and withered, all lonely, all weird. India Knight: ‘Chick lit is in its death throes’ 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, in its search for fresh blood to rejuvenate the desiccated corpse of Bram Stoker’s hero, long since drained of narrative power, it goes places it shouldn’t. ‘Dracula Untold’ movie review Of these the most expensive was kermes, a dye made from the desiccated bodies of insects, which produced a luscious, deep crimson. The power of a red dress 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Though the wisteria was chopped off at ground level, remnants of desiccated wisteria, brown and scraggly, cling to the side of the garage. Analysis: Recent California newspaper editorials 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z And the dust from desiccated shallows blows into the air and is easily inhaled by local children, whose asthma rates lead the state. Preserving an Accident, the Salton Sea in California, for the Good of Nature 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Blown from northern deserts and degraded drylands, it coats roads, clogs railways and desiccates pastures. Great Green Wall 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z It was thought that before then, bodies buried in the region’s hot, dry sand had desiccated naturally. Mummifying-balm recipe is older than the pharaohs 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z This is the beach’s no-man’s land, a place of blackened bonfires and spent fireworks and desiccated cigarette butts. Going with the grains: Reflections on an Outer Banks vacation Tables and desks were covered in the abandoned detritus of an occupying army: hardened bread rolls, crisps, biscuits, empty tins of hummus, desiccated olives, cans of energy drinks, bullet casings. Palestinians returning home find Israeli troops left faeces and venomous graffiti 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z In 2006, Israeli researchers found that more than half the dust needed to fertilize the Brazilian rainforest blew in from just one desiccated valley in Chad. Desert Dust Feeds Deep Ocean Life 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z But the desiccated black forest ham and cheese in puff pastry? Il Mee Buffet: An all-you-can-eat crash course in three Asian cuisines To an outsider, the landscape might be unremarkable — a desiccated riverbed and a scrubby patch of trees in the middle of a vast desert. These wounded U.S. veterans wanted closure. They found it back in Afghanistan. “But these ones that are uplifted, the barnacles will desiccate and turn white — it’s almost like painting a line on the shoreline.” A ’64 Quake Still Reverberates 2014-04-07T18:22:40Z The desiccated sequence of bare, undecorated facts made them difficult to follow – sometimes, plainly baffling. Rumor, gossip, nonsense: How the news became a nightmare 2014-03-29T18:00:00Z No pedestrian toting up of economic “spinoffs” from, to put it unkindly, space pens and Teflon to desiccated space ice cream, can justify the costs and risks of human exploration of outer space. "We Choose To Go To The Moon." John F. Kennedy 2013-11-22T20:52:00Z Their temporary ponds force them to live fast, die young and leave a desiccated corpse. "Annual Fish" Grow Up at Top Speed 2013-09-12T14:17:27.860Z There was nowhere at the construction site to keep the mummies, so she brought the desiccated remains home to her parents’ house. Lima Journal: Guardians of Peru’s Treasures Stake Out Post Office to Block Smuggling 2013-06-14T01:52:05Z Nonetheless, the mere occurrence of clays is further proof that Mars was much warmer and wetter billions of years ago; a very different place to the cold, desiccated world it has become. Old Mars rover makes rock discovery 2013-06-10T06:13:32Z In turn, the desiccating lakes become prime hunting territory for the Hiwi. How to Really Eat Like a Hunter-Gatherer: Why the Paleo Diet Is Half-Baked [Interactive + Infographic] 2013-06-03T11:15:00.170Z Wenger now seems an oddly poignant figure, an example of touchingly desiccated modernity, the managerial equivalent of your parents' lovingly maintained walnut-trim remote control VCR. Scot-free, Arsène Wenger may be lost without his fellow maddening uncle 2013-05-10T15:00:04Z "This looks to me like a badly desiccated and mummified human fetus or premature stillbirth," says William Jungers, a paleoanthropologist and anatomist at Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York. Bizarre 6-Inch Skeleton Shown to Be Human 2013-05-03T23:40:00Z The surrounding landscape is desiccated and featureless, encrusted with black rocks that bake under a merciless sun. Can France restore the magic of northern Mali? 2013-02-05T01:57:10Z He triggers the automatic feeder rigged on the truck bed and alfalfa cubes drop to the desiccated landscape. Last Round-Ups: The Decline and Fall of the Texas Family Rancher 2013-01-28T23:35:25Z With the Great Plains — from southern South Dakota to the Texas Panhandle — enduring the most desiccated conditions, the agricultural sector is bracing for the hardest blow. Season Has Changed, but the Drought Endures 2012-12-07T03:14:56Z It is blocked from opening farther by a chest-high cabinet, on the surface of which are balanced several hundred objects Kubota has retrieved from beaches — seashells, bird feathers, crab claws and desiccated coral. Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality? 2012-11-28T23:26:58Z Without his hairpiece, Ray looked shrunken and desiccated. A Pro Made Me A Better Doctor: Kevin Glynn 2012-11-13T05:00:00Z “I would welcome the spotlight moving away from what I think is an increasingly tired, hackneyed, desiccated, super-masticated issue,” he said. Memo From Birmingham: London’s Boris Johnson Overshadows Cameron 2012-10-10T01:26:22Z In any event, Mr. Obama has had little chance to check out the desiccated golf courses. In Struggling Nevada, the President Prepares 2012-10-03T04:24:01Z Lost in the desiccated Saharan sands of northern Mali, Timbuktu has found itself front-page news, and for all the wrong reasons. The Trouble in Timbuktu 2012-09-03T05:00:00Z Perhaps Marx Hubbard expects that desiccated seedbed to grow magic beanstalks. AMC's week in review: how Mitt Romney and Rafalca both lost 2012-08-10T20:26:00Z The biodegradable spray can last up until next spring's new growth if grass is truly desiccated, he said. New York area homeowners turning to "lawn painting" 2012-07-19T20:30:53Z On Monday we went to see The Browning Version, in which the main character, a desiccated schoolmaster, cries because one of the boys, who he assumes hated him, has bought him a kind leaving present. Simon Hoggart's week: taken for suckers – it's enough to make you cry 2012-07-13T17:25:08Z To do this, the scientists employed state-of-the art radiocarbon dating techniques on human coprolites - desiccated excrement - found in the same layers of the cave's sediments. Early Americans' two tool tech 2012-07-13T08:30:07Z "A human being transported to this hellish environment would be crushed, suffocate, desiccate, and possibly ignite," wrote Tony Phillips, with Science@NASA. Skywatchers prepare for rare Venus fly-by 2012-06-04T21:28:21Z When conditions are hot and dry, they found, eggs desiccate as the sand bakes in the sun, and the babies are unable to break through the packed, scalding substrate. Green Blog: Hot Nests Mean Baked Baby Leatherbacks 2012-05-23T21:00:37Z When the fact that he helped his brother in chemical experiments became known to Dr. Butler, the head-master, that desiccated pedagogue publicly rebuked him “for wasting time on such useless subjects.” Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z He also described the pathology of cirrhosis of the man's liver, which he found to be “desiccated and like congealed bran both in colour and substance”. Medicine: Leonardo's anatomy years 2012-04-23T13:50:26.960Z Some men had to survive on desiccated vegetables—cakes of them. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z Rows of desiccated corn stalks shows evidence of recent growth nearby, but this parking-lot-sized patch of soil is barren. A river rams through it: Argentina s Rio Nuevo portends problems to come in South America 2012-04-10T17:45:11.433Z Others desiccate en masse, the roof-wall first collapsing upon the contents, thus producing an appearance which again suggests umbilication of the lesions. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Fish guano or desiccated fish is largely used; it is very stimulating and more lasting than some of the other forcing manures. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Humboldt found numerous mummies in Mexico, where desiccated bodies have not unfrequently been seen in the open air. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z When prepared by drying and mixing with various substances, night-soil is sold as desiccated night-soil or native guano, the value of which depends upon the materials used for admixture. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z He was leaving plant residues – such as the desiccated corn husks covering the ground near the salt patch – as a layer of beneficial litter that protects the soil. A river rams through it: Argentina s Rio Nuevo portends problems to come in South America 2012-04-10T17:45:11.433Z The pustules in the course of from four days to a week desiccate and are shed, leaving behind them violaceous pigmentations of the surface without persistent cicatricial sequel�. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z “And here we have some desiccated vegetables, looks like,” remarked Ethan, as he pointed to a variety of cans. Phil Bradley's Snow-shoe Trail The Mountain Boys in the Canada Wilds 2012-02-27T03:00:13.497Z If prolonged drought occurred in the reproductive season, and desiccated the vegetation upon which the mice depend for moisture, the populations should diminish the following year. Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2012-02-24T03:00:32.243Z Such a very delightful old maid, with none of the flavor of desiccated spinsterhood. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z Still, a bowl of Edwards' desiccated soup—the best of all travelling soups—has been very reviving, and though I have had a severe chill again, I do not mean to succumb. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z The casein is desiccated and prepared as a substitute for eggs in baking, as the basis of an enamel paint, and as a substitute for glue in paper-sizing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Colin looked around at the decimated airport — perhaps desiccated would be more appropriate. The interruption 2012-02-08T18:51:21.443Z On top of that, heavy rains later in the fall replenished desiccated hinterlands, leading to a bountiful harvest. U.N. Says Famine in Somalia Is Over, but Risks Remain 2012-02-03T14:44:23Z She moved to the head of the table, and the usual ranch supper of pork, potatoes, flapjacks, hot cakes, desiccated fruits, and green tea was brought in. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z Even the desiccated apples, which from want of soaking were somewhat leathery, did not come amiss, and the flavor of the wood smoke failed to spoil the strong green tea. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z This prefix de- is negative and oppositive in destroy, desuetude, deform, or intensive in declare, desolate, desiccate. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z Everything tastes so desiccated and deodorized, the mere shadow of really substantial viands, a veritable feast of Barmecide. In Jeopardy 2012-01-04T03:00:35.013Z The dense foliage provides shade and protection from desiccating effects of wind and sunlight; furthermore the foliage contributes moisture by transpiration. A Distributional Study of the Amphibians of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico 2011-12-31T03:00:17.400Z In the meanwhile Barbison discoursed glibly about fruit-trees and produce prices, and pointed now and then to a big tin case partly filled with desiccated fruits and pictures which lay on a chair beside him. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z Can't you and I, who in spite of such divergence have yet so much in common in our Weltanschauung, start a systematic movement at Harvard against the desiccating and pedantifying process? The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z My load's flour, desiccated fruit, and a few cans of meat. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z Meanwhile every effort is made to encourage the afforesting of the rugged hill-sides, in order to check the violence of the floods and the denuding of the arid, desiccated soil. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z In most savanna regions in the Americas the grasslands become waterlogged or even partly flooded during the rainy season and desiccated in the dry season. A Distributional Study of the Amphibians of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico 2011-12-31T03:00:17.400Z If the specimen was slightly desiccated, as possibly was the case, the digits would appear narrower. A Taxonomic Revision of the Leptodactylid Frog Genus Syrrhophus Cope 2011-10-23T02:00:22.253Z We examined the type on 17 February 1969, at which time the specimen was somewhat desiccated, especially the hands and feet. A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus 2011-10-04T02:00:15.227Z Motivation for further missions was not aided by the fact that Mercury appeared a dead, desiccated world, a sort of super-size version of Earth's moon. Hot, Odd and Curious: NASA Orbiter Reveals Mercury to Be Surprisingly Complex 2011-10-03T21:45:05.207Z This turns brown, becomes desiccated, and thus the circulation is arrested, and the foliage as well as the bark is affected. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z Thus, these environments are desiccated by the dry winds and direct sunlight. A Distributional Study of the Amphibians of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico 2011-12-31T03:00:17.400Z Still retaining a bit of moisture, grilled cod and salmon escaped the flames in time, but on two tries the halibut was desiccated. | Thornwood: Mythos in Thornwood Offers Authentic Greek Dishes 2011-10-01T02:08:38Z A generous re-wetting of desiccated eggs and cotton caused the eggs to swell to their original proportions within 24 hours. Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz 2011-10-01T02:00:30.200Z Those that did, could be described only as holding mysterious, dirty-looking powders, lumps of incomprehensible substances, or masses of desiccated vegetable matter of powerful and most abominable flavour. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z The road and the buildings look dry and desiccated, the harbour rather weary and end of the world. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z All through the region round about Candes one meets with the269 fruit-pickers, with their great baskets laden with prunes, pears, and apples, to be sent ultimately to the great ovens to be desiccated and dried. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z Rocket casings covered with desiccated palm leaves lay within view of monolithic housing complexes, peppered with shrapnel. Libya's Rebels Tighten the Noose Around Gaddafi's Capital 2011-08-16T19:25:00Z There is reason for thinking that the moon is not absolutely airless, and, while it has no visible bodies of water, its soil may, after all, not be entirely arid and desiccated. Astronomy with an Opera-glass A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments 2011-07-17T02:00:30.177Z In their relentless invasion of Australia, poisonous cane toads often hop along roads, where their flattened, desiccated husks are a familiar sight during the long dry season. Long-Dead Cane Toads Continue to Haunt Australian Wildlife 2011-07-01T19:34:45Z As the sponge becomes desiccated its cells perish. Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa 2011-06-25T02:00:17.833Z This I dry rapidly, and, while still warm and desiccated, expose under a glass positive. Photogravure 2011-06-19T02:00:24.663Z Among the important industries of the Great Basin region is the gathering and purifying of the various salts contained in the existing water bodies and in the basins of desiccated lakes. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z He went to church sometimes, On certain Sundays, for a pious mother Had reared him so, and sat there like a corpse, A desiccated soul, so dry the moss Upon his teeth was dry. Domesday Book 2011-04-30T02:00:13.397Z Ticks need humidity and become desiccated when levels drop below 80 percent. Barberry, Bambi and bugs: The link between Japanese barberry and Lyme disease 2011-03-30T13:15:05.263Z Here it grows with great rapidity during the "rains," and often becomes desiccated even more rapidly as soon as the rain ceases. Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa 2011-06-25T02:00:17.833Z This was the shrunken, desiccated figure of a man, all its juices extracted and the life gone. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z For three days, family members, neighbors, friends and the rabbi trooped through to say goodbye to the desiccated but still breathing body. Shooting kills 1, injures 11 at Ohio frat house 2011-02-06T21:45:00Z Our cooks did their best to make it palatable by cooking the beef in stew with some desiccated vegetables, but these were hard and tasteless. Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition 2011-02-02T03:00:25.187Z The seven liberal arts were often not pursued in their entirety, and students remained satisfied with desiccated compendia of accepted opinions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z Carbon dating showed a desiccated grape vine found near a wine press was grown around 4000 BC, his team reported. At 6,000 years old, wine press is oldest yet found 2011-01-11T05:39:16Z This alternative to a desiccated austerity requires political attention from the opposition. Letters: Radical alternatives to raising VAT 2011-01-07T00:05:04Z All annual vegetation lay dead and desiccated on the immense pampas or plains. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z It is a complete nonsense to apply that measure, which is a slightly desiccated Treasury measure. Nick Clegg accuses IFS of 'distorted nonsense' 2010-10-21T20:23:00Z The combination of the global labor market, hostile labor law, implacable corporate opposition, and a desiccated union movement more or less rule that out. How does Joe Barton's GOP ever win? 2010-06-18T13:19:00Z Another "drug" noted by Swann was Marmola, which was desiccated thyroid tablets sold early in the 20th century as a diet product. Overtreated: Bleeding for colds, X-rays for shoes 2010-06-07T07:32:00Z Sweet Potato Patties.—For the patties, boil until very thick one pound of granulated sugar, one cupful of sweet potato prepared as above; one-half cupful of desiccated cocoanut, and one-half cupful of water. Candy-Making Revolutionized Confectionery from Vegetables The structures thus produced have functions which are also analogous to those of living beings, a double current of diffusion, an evolutionary existence, and a latent vitality when desiccated or congealed. The Mechanism of Life Upon these pinchbeck creeds their souls must surely starve, must slowly shrink to desiccated imps. Sinister Street, vol. 2 The Grim Pass, and the road lined with desiccated travellers and animals, effaced the bright picture of the orchards of Kashgar and the busy streets of Yarkand. The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar In frogs that were partly desiccated, the color was unusually pale, with a distinctly greenish tint, and at high temperatures coloration tended to be relatively pale. Field Study of Kansas Ant-Eating Frog So only very casual attention was paid to Barres and his Pilsner and his rye-bread and sardine sandwich, which he took over to a vacant table to desiccate and discuss at his leisure. The Moonlit Way The ash beneath the stones where the eggs were found was only slightly moist; one clump of eggs was partially desiccated. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michoacán, México Scores of them are filled with desiccated human bodies. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II As a preparation for the niche, the body is desiccated in a kind of oven, and then dressed as in life and raised into its place in the wall. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" Mr. Hazlewood was in appearance a dried-up likeness of his son, and Guy often wondered if he would ever present to the world this desiccated exterior. Plashers Mead A Novel For cocoanut creams take two table-spoonfuls of grated cocoanut and dry it in a cool oven, or you can use desiccated cocoanut instead. Harper's Round Table, October 1, 1895 Also condensed and desiccated foods are, in a few cases, toothsome enough to earn inclusion—and many are not. Camp and Trail They were never disembowelled for the purpose of embalming, but some were desiccated by being kept for about a month and daily anointed with coco-nut oil. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II Ivan watched it with curiosity until it also hung its head over its desiccated stalk. Peasant Tales of Russia The anhydrous salt is very hygroscopic, and hence finds application as a desiccating agent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" They had a desiccated look and were stuck worse than ever to the bottom. The Water Eater One source of charm in the English landscape is the full, placid stream the season through; no desiccated watercourses will you see there, nor any feeble, decrepit brooks, hardly able to get over the ground. A Year in the Fields The friction was continued until the desiccated body was reduced to the state of a mummy, though sometimes, in spite of all precautions, it crumbled into dust. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II The consideration seems at least to justify the notion, that the waters desiccate in spite of the encroachments of currents, and that all things have proceeded from the silent agency of water. A Morning's Walk from London to Kew Cocoanut caramels are made in the same way, except that 1 oz. of grated or desiccated cocoanut is used instead of the chocolate. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes I want to be a diplomat And with the envoys stand, A-wetting of my whistle in A desiccated land. The So-called Human Race O Dead, ye shall no longer cling to us With rigid hands of desiccating praise, And drag us backward by the garment thus, To stand and laud you in long-drawn virelays! The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV Besides, there is desiccated egg in the shape of powder that is the real thing preserved. Jack Winters' Campmates |
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