(n.) A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
(v. i.) To associate with strumpets; to wench.
(n.) A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.
(n.) A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.
(a.) Of a color between gray and brown.
(n.) A drab color.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
(2) And it will almost certainly continue arriving in dribs and drabs, based on the Sea Dragon's observations.
(3) While Klimt was creating modern art there, Hitler was going to the opera to hear Wagner (conducted by the modernist Gustav Mahler), and soon eking a living painting drab topographic scenes.
(4) The most visible sign of this is the arrival each day, when parliament is in session in its lavish, marble-decked halls in the new capital of Naypyidaw , of scores of officers, natty in their freshly pressed olive drab.
(5) Here was a woman, "dismal, drab, embarrassing," sodden with "self-pity," who in the Golden Notebook had single-handedly set back the women's movement "a good long way".
(6) Inside, photographs of these often drab exteriors are contrasted with the vibrantly colourful images of the interiors.
(7) It is incredible the bombers did not have tickets but, regardless, they would not have got through the body searches at the gates.” Pavlovic and his wife, Ljiljana, had been selling scarves outside the arena prior to kick-off but, despite having tickets for the match, ambled down towards McDonald’s where they had parked in Impasse de la Cokerie, a drab cul de sac between characterless office blocks, to meet his cousin and her husband.
(8) Second half: Barcelona's players have been ready to start the second half for several minutes, while Inter's are emerging from the tunnel in dribs and drabs.
(9) A fter five years in the job of chief inspector of schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw will deliver his final annual general report as head of Ofsted on Thursday morning – possibly to his own regret and almost certainly to the regret of education journalists, for whom life can sometimes be a little drab.
(10) Photograph: John Brunton Situated smack on the "strada del vino", it is easy to drive straight past this drab-looking tratttoria.
(11) The 6.6-kilobase DNA fragment expressed five polypeptides with molecular masses of 15.5, 5, 18, 90, and 32 kilodaltons encoded by the draA, draB, draC, draD, and draE genes, respectively.
(12) On Monday, Gao began the latest phase of her crusade, travelling to a drab five-storey courthouse in western Beijing with about a dozen other relatives to file a lawsuit against Malaysia Airlines before a legal deadline that coincides with the disaster’s two-year anniversary.
(13) On the surface, the subject could not have been more drab.
(14) Slovakia v Paraguay in Bloem: another drab spectacle with the Slovakians managing to run around aimlessly for 90 minutes.
(15) And that's absolutely the right, drab clothing to reach for as the post-Leveson debate enters a new round.
(16) Despite all the dribs and drabs of innovation in the ocean of old-media rules, we're beginning to see a kind of ideal on the horizon.
(17) Anything positive would stand out against what's been a pretty drab backdrop so far.
(18) Yet sometimes a little decay here and there, some graffiti, flyers posted on walls and lampposts, can add liveliness to what would otherwise be a drab urban experience.
(19) High up in the National Theatre, Patrick Marber is huddled in the corner of a small, drab room.
(20) An AQI reading of 300 blots out the sun, smothering the city in drab uniformity.
Dray
Definition:
(n.) A squirrel's nest.
(n.) A strong low cart or carriage used for heavy burdens.
(n.) A kind of sledge or sled.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mokyr and S. Dray, Cancer Res., 43: 3112-3119, 1983), namely: (a) the drug does not directly eradicate all tumor cells; (b) host T-cell-dependent antitumor immunity is also required for the curative effect; (c) the therapy of tumor bearers leads to the rapid appearance of an augmented antitumor immune potential in their hitherto immunosuppressed spleen; and (d) the cured mice are resistant to a subsequent challenge with at least 300-fold the minimal lethal tumor dose.
(2) Dray is suing the hospital and doctors for malpractice.
(3) Her right to bodily integrity and freedom was taken away with a swipe of a pen – the director of maternal and fetal medicine, Dr James J Ducey, wrote in Dray's medical records , "I have decided to override her refusal to have a C-section."
(4) (Treating women as criminals for what they do during pregnancy is not uncommon – Dray was told that refusing the C-section was child abuse and that her child would be taken away from her.)
(5) We present here a mathematical model that accounts for the various proportions of plasma membrane constituents occurring in the lysosomal membrane of rat fibroblasts (Draye, J.-P., J. Quintart, P. J. Courtoy, and P. Baudhuin.
(6) We have recently described the effects of riboflavin deficiency on the metabolism of dicarboxylic acids (Draye et al.
(7) 170: 395-403; Draye, J.-P., P. J. Courtoy, J. Quintart, and P. Baudhuin.
(8) But thanks to American policy that trumps "fetal rights" over women's personhood, Dray's case may not be as clear cut as it seems.
(9) Wise, M. B. Mokyr, and S. Dray, Cancer Res., 49:3613-3619, 1989).
(10) I hope Dray wins her case, and that our country will start to recognize the humanity of pregnant women, instead of just cutting them open when we disagree with their personal medical decisions.
(11) Yet that's just what happened to 35-year-old Rinat Dray when a doctor at Staten Island University Hospital performed a C-section on the Brooklyn mother, against her will and verbal protests.
(12) As late as 2006 when the brewery closed, horses and drays were still used to deliver beer to pubs a mile or two away and the site was home to a live ram and a flock of geese.
(13) PGE2 was measured by radioimmunoassay using Dray antiserum prior to and 1 week after starting a fast supplemented by 320 cal derived from 30 g of carbohydrate, 45 g protein, and 2 g essential fatty acids.
(14) But it's not just implicit pressure that women feel: explicit violations like the one that happened to Dray have been happening for decades.