To dry or make dry. Calices siccare. Horat. To emptie cuppes. Capillos rorantes siccabat. Ouid. Cruores siccabat veste. Virg. He wiped away the blood with his coate. Lachrymas siccauerat ardor. Ouid. Lumina humida siccabat impressa lana. Propert. Capreoli siccant hubera ouis. Virg. Vulnera siccabat lymphis. Virg.

I. Act., to make dry, to day, to dry up.

A. In gen. (freq. and class.): venti et sol siccare prius confidunt omnia posse, Lucr. 5, 390; cf.: sol siccaverat herbas, Ov. M. 4, 82: siccabat rorantes capillos, id. F. 4, 141: sole capillos, id. M. 11, 770; Plin. 27, 9, 55, 79: aliquid in sole, Col. 12, 46, 5; Plin. 12, 13, 27, 47: aliquid ad lunam, id. 21, 11, 36, 62: lina madentia, Ov. M. 13, 931: retia litore, id. ib. 11, 362: vellera, Verg. E. 3, 95: veste cruores, id. A. 4, 687: cruorem, Gell. 5, 14, 22: lacrimas, Prop. 1, 19, 23; Ov. M. 8, 469; 9, 395; id. F. 3, 509: jocis lacrimas siccare, Quint. 11, 1, 6 al.: genas, Ov. M. 10, 362: frontem sudario, Quint. 11, 3, 148.—

B. Esp.

1. To dry up, drain land, marshes, springs, etc.: paludes, Cic. Phil. 5, 3, 7; so, paludem, Quint. 3, 8, 16; Suet. Caes. 44: amnes, Ov. M. 2, 257: fontes, id. ib. 13, 690; cf.: palustria aestate siccantur, Plin. 12, 22, 48, 104: agri siccati, drained lands, lands uncovered by draining, Suet. Claud. 20: dea Sidereo siccata sitim collegit ab aestu, parched, Ov. M. 6, 341.—

2. To exhaust, drain dry, etc. (poet.): ovis ubera, Verg. E. 2, 42; so, distenta ubera, Hor. Epod. 2, 46; for which, transf.: distentas siccant pecudes, Luc. 4, 314; so, siccata ovis, i. e. milked, Ov. Am. 3, 5, 14: calices, i. e. to drain, empty, Hor. S. 2, 6, 68; so. cadis siccatis, id. C. 1, 35, 27; cf.: cum siccare sacram largo Permessida posset Ore, to drink deeply from the fountain of the Muses, i. e. to be a great poet, Mart. 8, 70, 3.—In Gr. construction: Arethusa virides manu siccata capillos, Ov. M. 5, 575.—

3. To dry up, heal up, remore an unwholesome humor; or, to heal up, free some part of the body from an unwholesome humor (poet. and in the elder Pliny): ad pituitam oris siccandam. Plin. 23, 1, 13, 17: suppurata, id. 36, 17, 28, 133: strumas, id. 24, 4, 6, 11: corpora, id. 31, 6, 33, 62: os, id. 12, 12, 26, 43: arterias umidas, id. 20, 14, 53, 148; cf.: corpus pilā, i. e. to strengthen, invigorate, Lucil. ap. Non. 394, 29; v. siccitas, I. B. 3.: vulnera, Ov. M. 10, 187; cf.: ad fluminis undam Vulnera siccabat lymphis, Verg. A. 10, 834; for which, in a Gr. construction: juvenes siccati vulnera lymphis, Stat. Th. 1, 527.—

II. Neutr., to become dry, get dry (very rare): quotiens flumina et stagna siccaverint, Lact. 7, 3, 8: tundis cuminum et postea infundis in aceto; cum siccaverit, etc., Apic. 3, 18, 105; 4, 2, 132 al.—Impers.: ubi pluerit et siccaverit, Cato, R. R. 112, 2.