drab

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Of a dull grayish to yellowish brown.
2. adj. Of a light olive brown or khaki color.
3. adj. Faded and dull in appearance.
4. adj. Dull or commonplace in character; dreary: a drab personality. See Synonyms at dull.
5. n. A dull grayish to yellowish or light olive brown.
6. n. Cloth of this color or of an unbleached natural color.
7. n. A slattern.
8. n. A woman prostitute.
9. v. To consort with prostitutes: "Even amid his drabbing, he himself retained some virginal airs” ( Stanislaus Joyce).
10. n. A negligible amount: finished the work in dribs and drabs.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A slut; a slattern.
2. n. A strumpet; a prostitute.
3. To associate with strumpets.
4. n. A thick woolen cloth of a yellowish-gray color.
5. n. A yellowish-gray tint.
6. Of a yellowish-gray color, like the cloth so called.
7. n. A kind of wooden box used in salt-works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling-pans. Its bottom is shelving or inclining, that the water may drain off.
8. n. An English collectors' name for a number of noctuid moths of a drab color: as, the clouded drab, Tæniocampa instabilis; the northern drab, T. opima; the lead-colored drab, T. populeti.

Wiktionary

1. n. dated A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.
2. n. dated A promiscuous woman, a slut; a prostitute.
3. v. obsolete To consort with prostitutes.
4. n. A fabric, usually of thick wool or cotton, having a drab blee.
5. n. A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
6. adj. Dull, uninteresting, particularly of colour.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A low, sluttish woman.
2. n. A lewd wench; a strumpet.
3. n. A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
4. v. To associate with strumpets; to wench.
5. n. A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.
6. n. A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.
7. adj. Of a color between gray and brown.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
2. adj. of a light brownish green color
3. adj. lacking brightness or color; dull.
4. adj. causing dejection
5. n. a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown