n. | 1. | A low, sluttish woman. |
2. | A lewd wench; a strumpet. | |
3. | A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans. | |
v. i. | 1. | To associate with strumpets; to wench. |
n. | 1. | A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; - called also |
2. | A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color. | |
a. | 1. | Of a color between gray and brown. |
Adj. | 1. | drab - 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" Synonyms: dreary |
2. | drab - lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan gray"; "children in somber brown clothes" | |
3. | drab - depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams |