parching

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English parch English -ing English parching From parch + -ing.

Causing something or someone to parch; extremely drying.
“Who can unpitying see the flowery race, / Shed by the morn, their new-flush'd bloom resign, / Before the parching beam?”
“The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Drifts of yellow vapour, fiery, parching, stinging, filled the air.”
Very thirsty; parched.
“Proceed to nearest canteen and there annex liquor stores. March! Tramp, tramp, tramp the boys are […] parching.”

Etymology: Etymology tree English parch English -ing English parching From parch + -ing.

The process of parching or roasting something, such as corn.
“I have already told how we parched sunflower seed; and that I used two or three double-handfuls of seed to a parching. I used two parchings of sunflower seed for one mess of four-vegetables-mixed.”
The condition of being parched; absolute dryness.
“Squalid youths with ghastly grin, In hollow bitter roots shall bring, Urine of the unsav'ry goat, To quell the parchings of thy throat.”

Etymology: Etymology tree English parch English -ing English parching From parch + -ing.