Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume DE1. A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without of before the substantive which follows. "Some six or seven dozen of Scots." "A dozen of shirts to your back." "A dozen sons." "Half a dozen friends." Shak. 2. An indefinite small number. Milton. -- A baker's dozen, thirteen; -- called also a long dozen. Doz"enth (?), a. Twelfth. [R.] Doz"er (?), n. One who dozes or drowses. Doz"i·ness (?), n. The state of being dozy; drowsiness; inclination to sleep. Doz"y (?), a. Drowsy; inclined to doze; sleepy; sluggish; as, a dozy head. Dryden. Doz"zled (?), a. [√71.] Stupid; heavy. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Drab (?), n. [AS. drabbe dregs, lees; akin to D. drab, drabbe, dregs, G. treber; for sense 1, cf. also Gael. drabag a slattern, drabach slovenly. Cf. Draff.] 1. A low, sluttish woman. King. 2. A lewd wench; a strumpet. Shak. 3. A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans. Drab, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drabbed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Drabbing.] To associate with strumpets; to wench. Beau. & Fl. Drab, n. [F. drap cloth: LL. drappus, trapus, perh. orig., a firm, solid stuff, cf. F. draper to drape, also to full cloth; prob. of German origin; cf. Icel. drepa to beat, strike, AS. drepan, G. treffen; perh. akin to E. drub. Cf. Drape, Trappings.] 1. A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth. 2. A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color. |