"half dry" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is partially but not completely dry. Here is an example: "After hanging out in the sun for several hours, the laundry was still half dry when I brought it inside."
(Webster) 'THINGS OF DRY HOURS' Two and a half dry hours, to be precise.
These wines are often labeled "halbtrocken" and "trocken," which translates literally as "half dry" and "dry," but more accurately as "dry" and "very dry".
The water tastes brackish, owing no doubt to a sort of tank being close by, which at this time is half dry, and would probably be quite dry in March.
The wines, mostly from small producers, are listed in categories such as dry, half dry, fruitful, floral, oak influenced, no oak, spicy and or herbaceous, chewy and barnyard (earthy, grassy, smelling of hay).
For ease, sit them on some Blu-Tack (or an old egg cup, but remember to let the top half dry before turning it to paint the bottom) to stop them falling over.
Other bests included, for riesling, a 1999 halbtrocken (half dry) from the Prinz von Hessen, from the Rheingau in Germany, at $11; and for cabernet sauvignon, a 1997 Amberhill from Raymond Vineyard in California at $10.
Half dried they can be thrown into sauces for flavouring and I am told that fenugreek makes mean spiced herby Gujerati paratha and out of this world bhajis.
When it's about half dried, scrunch your hair.
HOUSTON — The worst drought to strike Texas in the last 50 years has broken, ending a year-and-a-half dry spell in which farmers and ranchers suffered devastating losses, climatologists and agronomists said this week.
Then discovered there were some half-dry.
But it is not as sweet as the half-dry.
