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drab
(encz) | drab,fádní adj: Jonáš Petrovský |
drab
(encz) | drab,jednotvárnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
drab
(encz) | drab,jednotvárný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
drab
(encz) | drab,nudný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
drab
(encz) | drab,pustý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Drab
(gcide) | Drab \Drab\, a.
Of a color between gray and brown. -- n. A drab color.
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Drab
(gcide) | Drab \Drab\ (dr[a^]b), 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.
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2. A lewd wench; a strumpet. --Shak.
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3. A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when
taken out of the boiling pans.
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Drab
(gcide) | Drab \Drab\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drabbed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Drabbing.]
To associate with strumpets; to wench. --Beau. & Fl.
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Drab
(gcide) | Drab \Drab\, 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.
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2. A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.
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drab
(wn) | drab
adj 1: lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise; "her drab
personality"; "life was drab compared with the more
exciting life style overseas"; "a series of dreary dinner
parties" [syn: drab, dreary]
2: lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains";
"sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"
[syn: drab, sober, somber, sombre]
3: of a light brownish green color [syn: olive-drab, drab]
4: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war";
"a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter
landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November";
"a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [syn: blue,
dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim,
sorry, drab, drear, dreary]
n 1: a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown [syn:
olive drab, drab] |
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draba
(encz) | draba, n: |
drably
(encz) | drably, adv: |
drabness
(encz) | drabness,jednotvárnost n: Zdeněk Broždrabness,monotónnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
dribs and drabs
(encz) | dribs and drabs, |
in dribs and drabs
(encz) | in dribs and drabs, |
olive drab
(encz) | olive drab,olivová zeleň n: [voj.] odstín zelené barvy pro vojenskou
techniku Petr Prášek |
olive-drab
(encz) | olive-drab, adj: |
olive-drab uniform
(encz) | olive-drab uniform, n: |
Bedrabble
(gcide) | Bedrabble \Be*drab"ble\, v. t.
To befoul with rain and mud; to drabble.
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Drab
(gcide) | Drab \Drab\, a.
Of a color between gray and brown. -- n. A drab color.
[1913 Webster]Drab \Drab\ (dr[a^]b), 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.
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2. A lewd wench; a strumpet. --Shak.
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3. A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when
taken out of the boiling pans.
[1913 Webster]Drab \Drab\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drabbed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Drabbing.]
To associate with strumpets; to wench. --Beau. & Fl.
[1913 Webster]Drab \Drab\, 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.
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2. A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.
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Draba verna
(gcide) | Whitlow \Whit"low\, n. [Prov. E. whickflaw, for quickflaw, i.
e., a flaw or sore at the quick; cf. Icel. kvika the quick
under the nail or under a horse's hoof. See Quick, a., and
Flaw.]
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1. (Med.) An inflammation of the fingers or toes, generally
of the last phalanx, terminating usually in suppuration.
The inflammation may occupy any seat between the skin and
the bone, but is usually applied to a felon or
inflammation of the periosteal structures of the bone.
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2. (Far.) An inflammatory disease of the feet. It occurs
round the hoof, where an acrid matter is collected.
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Whitlow grass (Bot.), name given to several inconspicuous
herbs, which were thought to be a cure for the whitlow, as
Saxifraga tridactylites, Draba verna, and several
species of Paronychia.
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Drabbed
(gcide) | Drab \Drab\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drabbed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Drabbing.]
To associate with strumpets; to wench. --Beau. & Fl.
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Drabber
(gcide) | Drabber \Drab"ber\, n.
One who associates with drabs; a wencher. --Massinger.
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Drabbet
(gcide) | Drabbet \Drab"bet\, n.
A coarse linen fabric, or duck.
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Drabbing
(gcide) | Drab \Drab\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drabbed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Drabbing.]
To associate with strumpets; to wench. --Beau. & Fl.
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Drabbish
(gcide) | Drabbish \Drab"bish\, a.
Somewhat drab in color.
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Having the character of a drab or low wench. "The drabbish
sorceress." --Drant.
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Drabble
(gcide) | Drabble \Drab"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drabbled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Drabbling.] [???.See Drab, Draff.]
To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to drabble a
gown or cloak. --Halliwell.
[1913 Webster]Drabble \Drab"ble\, v. i.
To fish with a long line and rod; as, to drabble for barbels.
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Drabbled
(gcide) | Drabble \Drab"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drabbled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Drabbling.] [???.See Drab, Draff.]
To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to drabble a
gown or cloak. --Halliwell.
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Drabbler
(gcide) | Drabbler \Drab"bler\, n. (Naut.)
A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail,
to give it a greater depth, or more drop.
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Drabble-tail
(gcide) | Drabble-tail \Drab"ble-tail`\, n.
A draggle-tail; a slattern. --Halliwell.
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Drabbling
(gcide) | Drabble \Drab"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drabbled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Drabbling.] [???.See Drab, Draff.]
To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to drabble a
gown or cloak. --Halliwell.
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drabcloth
(gcide) | Drab \Drab\, 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.
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2. A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.
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olive-drab
(gcide) | colorful \colorful\ adj.
1. having striking color. Opposite of colorless.
Note: [Narrower terms: {changeable, chatoyant, iridescent,
shot}; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing;
prismatic; psychedelic; {red, ruddy, flushed,
empurpled}]
Syn: colourful.
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2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless
or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious;
flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; {flashy, gaudy,
jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty}; picturesque]
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3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey;
as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and
monochrome.
Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; {amber,
brownish-yellow, yellow-brown}; amethyst; {auburn,
reddish-brown}; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden;
azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; {bicolor,
bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome}; {blue,
bluish, light-blue, dark-blue}; {blushful,
blush-colored, rosy}; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy;
brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; {canary,
canary-yellow}; caramel, caramel brown; carnation;
chartreuse; chestnut; dun; {earth-colored,
earthlike}; fuscous; {green, greenish, light-green,
dark-green}; jade, jade-green; khaki; {lavender,
lilac}; mauve; moss green, mosstone; {motley,
multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured,
painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied,
varicolored, varicoloured}; mousy, mouse-colored;
ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive;
orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish;
purple, violet, purplish; {red, blood-red, carmine,
cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red,
scarlet}; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red;
rust, rusty, rust-colored; {snuff, snuff-brown,
snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored,
snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown}; {sorrel,
brownish-orange}; stone, stone-gray; {straw-color,
straw-colored, straw-coloured}; tan; tangerine;
tawny; ultramarine; umber; {vermilion,
vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red}; yellow, yellowish;
yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; {blae
bluish-black or gray-blue)}; coral; creamy; {cress
green, cresson, watercress}; hazel; {honey,
honey-colored}; hued(postnominal); magenta;
maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green;
sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark,
light.]
Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
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Quadrable
(gcide) | Quadrable \Quad"ra*ble\, a. [See Quadrate.] (Math.)
That may be sqyared, or reduced to an equivalent square; --
said of a surface when the area limited by a curve can be
exactly found, and expressed in a finite number of algebraic
terms.
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draba
(wn) | draba
n 1: 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 |
draba verna
(wn) | Draba verna
n 1: annual weed of Europe and North America having a rosette of
basal leaves and tiny flowers followed by oblong seed
capsules [syn: whitlow grass, shadflower, {shad-
flower}, Draba verna] |
drably
(wn) | drably
adv 1: in a drab manner; "she dresses drably" |
drabness
(wn) | drabness
n 1: having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or
elegance [syn: dowdiness, drabness, homeliness] |
genus draba
(wn) | genus Draba
n 1: large genus of low tufted herbs of temperate and Arctic
regions |
olive drab
(wn) | olive drab
n 1: a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown [syn:
olive drab, drab]
2: military uniform of the United States Army; made from cloth
of a dull olive color [syn: olive drab, {olive-drab
uniform}]
3: a cloth of an olive-brown color used for military uniforms |
olive-drab
(wn) | olive-drab
adj 1: of a light brownish green color [syn: olive-drab,
drab] |
olive-drab uniform
(wn) | olive-drab uniform
n 1: military uniform of the United States Army; made from cloth
of a dull olive color [syn: olive drab, {olive-drab
uniform}] |
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