parchingly
English
Etymology
parching + -ly
Adverb
parchingly (comparative more parchingly, superlative most parchingly)
- So as to parch or dry out.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
- Most statistical tables are parchingly dry in the reading; not so in the present case, however, where the reader is flooded with whole pipes, barrels, quarts, and gills of good gin and good cheer.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick