fordryfordry means to dry up; become dry. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.EtymologyFrom Middle English fordrien, fordruien, fordruȝen, from Old English fordrūgian (“to become dry, wither”), equivalent to for- + dry.verbTo dry up; become dry.To dry up; make dry.adjVery dry; withered.“1387-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Squire's Tale. Amid a tree fordry, as white as chalk, As Canacé was playing in her walk, There sat a falcon o'er her head full high, That with a piteous voice so gan to cry, […]”