LekhoriLekhoriCausing something or someone to parch; extremely drying.
Who can unpitying see the flowery race, / Shed by the morn, their new-flush'd bloom resign, / Before the parching beam?
Very thirsty; parched.
Proceed to nearest canteen and there annex liquor stores. March! Tramp, tramp, tramp the boys are […] parching.
present participle and gerund of parch
The process of parching or roasting something, such as corn.
I have already told how we parched sunflower seed; and that I used two or three double-handfuls of seed to a parching. I used two parchings of sunflower seed for one mess of four-vegetables-mixed.
The condition of being parched; absolute dryness.
Squalid youths with ghastly grin, In hollow bitter roots shall bring, Urine of the unsav'ry goat, To quell the parchings of thy throat.
From parch + -ing.
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