Both Uses
arid
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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- Its dry pale surface stretched severely onward, unbroken by a single figure, vehicle, or mark, save some occasional brown horse-droppings which dotted its cold aridity here and there.†
Chpt 6 *
- "Why," he said aridly; "I have come all the way here to see you to-day!†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(arid) very dry from a lack of rain, or (figuratively) dull and lacking in life or interest
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)