(adj) lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise, Syn.dreary, Example: her drab personality; life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas; a series of dreary dinner parties
(n) any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems; fruit is a dehiscent oblong or linear silique
n. [ AS. drabbe dregs, lees; akin to D. drab, drabbe, dregs, G. treber; for sense 1, cf. also Gael. drabag a slattern, drabach slovenly. Cf. Draff. ] 1. A low, sluttish woman. King. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. A lewd wench; a strumpet. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. drap cloth: LL. drappus, trapus, perh. orig., a firm, solid stuff, cf. F. draper to drape, also to full cloth; prob. of German origin; cf. Icel. drepa to beat, strike, AS. drepan, G. treffen; perh. akin to E. drub. Cf. Drape, Trappings. ] 1. A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Drabbled p. pr. & vb. n. Drabbling ] [ &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;.See Drab, Draff. ] To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to drabble a gown or cloak. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]
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