DAB

n. v.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A skillful hand; a dabster; an expert. [Colloq.] One excels at a plan or the titlepage, another works away at the body of the book, and the therd is a dab at an index. Goldsmith.

2.
n.

A name given to several species of Pleuronectes . TheAmerican rough dab is Hippoglossoides platessoides.

3.
v.

To strike or touch gently, as with a soft or moist substance; to tap; hence, to besmear with a dabber. A sore should . . . be wiped . . . only by dabbing it over with fine lint. S. Sharp.

4.
v.

To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust. "To dab him in the neck." Sir T. More.

5.
n.

A gentle blow with the hand or some soft substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck. Astratch of her clame, a dab of her beack. Hawthorne.

6.
n.

A small mass of anything soft or moist.

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