"old boxes of desiccated Cuban cigars"
"dried-out boards beginning to split"
"dried beef"
"dried fruit"
"dehydrated eggs"
"shredded and desiccated coconut meat"
"a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata"
"a desiccate romance"
"a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"