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thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.

One who associates with drabs; a wencher. Massinger.

A coarse linen fabric, or duck.

Somewhat drab in color.

To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to drabble a gown or cloak. Halliwell.

A draggle-tail; a slattern. Halliwell.

A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop.

To befoul with rain and mud; to drabble.

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.

an species of acacia; neb-neb. It contains gallic acid and tannin, and is used for dyeing drab.

le; spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable; as, a commodious house. "A commodious drab." Shak. "Commodious gold." Pope. The haven was not commodious to winter in. Acts. xxvii. 12.

To wet and soil by dragging on the ground, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail. Gray. With draggled nets down-hanging to the tide. Trench.

A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail.

Of a dull brownish yellow, or drab color; -- applied to cloth, originally to a stout brownish cotton cloth, used in making uniforms in the Anglo-Indian army. In the United States service the summer uniform of cotton is officially designated khaki; the winter uniform of wool, olive drab.

A harlot; a drab; a hussy. [Obs.] Shak.

Quadrable. [R.]

Indeed; forsooth. To affront the blessed hillside drabs and thieves With mended morals, quotha, -- fine new lives ! Mrs. Browning.

ice, in distinction from dress, full dress, etc. In the United States army it is of olive-drab woolen or khaki-colored cotton, with all metal attachments of dull-finish bronze, with the exceptional of insignia of rank, which are of gold or silver finish.

A drab; a strumpet; a harlot; a trollop. Shak.

A low, vicious young woman; a drab; a strumpet. She shall be called his wench or his leman. Chaucer. It is not a digression to talk of bawds in a discourse upon wenches. Spectator.