exsiccant

From Latin exsiccans, present participle of exsiccare. See exsiccate.

exsiccant (comparative more exsiccant, superlative most exsiccant)

1. Having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up.

exsiccant (plural exsiccants)

1. A medicine that causes drying up.
   • 1894, Arthur Albert Stevens, A Manual of Therapeutics:

     Dried alum is used solely as an exsiccant and mild caustic

• “exsiccant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

exsiccant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of exsiccō