Definition of "air-dry" []

• To dry by exposure to the air. (verb-transitive)
• Sufficiently dry so that further exposure to air does not yield more moisture to be evaporated. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Figuring out how to air-dry the meat in the damp Welsh hills took two years of experimentation."
• "Those would generally be divded up into water-based “air-dry” clays and oil-based “polymer clays.”"
• "If desired, air-dry clays can be colored by mixing various pigments into them before shapin (acrylic paints are probably the most commonly used), or they can also be painted afterward."