desiccated

“The Learned have Diſtinguiſh’d fire into three Species, 1. Light, that is fire in its proper matter, 2. Flame, that is fire is moiſt Air, 3. Cole, that is fire in a burnt Stick or other Deſiccated matter[…]”

“Already I seemed to hear the water rippling against the desiccated bones and rattling them together, rolling my skull against Mahomed's, and his against mine, till at last Mahomed's stood straight up upon its vertebræ, and glared at me through its empty eyeholes, and cursed me with its grinning jaws, because I, a dog of a Christian, disturbed the last sleep of a true believer.”