| drab | 1. A low, sluttish woman. 2. A lewd wench; a strumpet. 3. A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans. Origin: 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| drabble | To fish with a long line and rod; as, to drabble for barbels. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Drabkin's reagent | A solution used in the cyanmethemoglobin method of measuring haemoglobin. It consists of sodium bicarbonate, potassium cyanide, and potassium ferricyanide. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dracaena | <botany> A genus of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers. Dracaena Draco, the source of the dragon's blood of the Canaries, forms a tree, sometimes of gigantic size. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. She-dragon. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| drachm | Synonym: dram. Origin: G. Drachme, an ancient Greek weight, equivalent to about 60 gr (05 Mar 2000) |
| dracin | <chemistry> See Draconin. Origin: Cf. F. Dracine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| draco | 1. <astronomy> The Dragon, a northern constellation within which is the north pole of the ecliptic. 2. A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds. 3. <zoology> A genus of lizards. See Dragon. Origin: L. See Dragon. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| draconian | Pertaining to Draco, a famous lawgiver of Athens, 621 b. C. Draconian code, or Draconian laws, a code of laws made by Draco. Their measures were so severe that they were said to be written in letters of blood; hence, any laws of excessive rigor. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| draconic | Relating to Draco, the Athenian lawgiver; or to the constellation Draco; or to dragon's blood. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| draconin | <chemistry> A red resin forming the essential basis of dragon's blood. Synonym: dracin. Origin: Cf. F. Draconine. See Draco. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dracontiasis | Former term for dracunculiasis. Origin: G. Drakon (drakont-), dragon (05 Mar 2000) |
| dracontic | <astronomy> Belonging to that space of time in which the moon performs one revolution, from ascending node to ascending node. See Dragon's head, under Dragon. "Dracontic month." Origin: From L. Draco dragon, in allusion to the terms dragon's head and dragon's tail. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dracunculiasis | Infection with nematodes of the genus dracunculus. One or more worms may be seen at a time, with the legs and feet being the most commonly infected areas. Symptoms include pruritus, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, or asthmatic attacks. (12 Dec 1998) |
| dracunculoidea | A superfamily of nematodes of the suborder camallanina. Its organisms possess a poorly developed buccal cavity and a rudimentary oesophagus and intestine. (12 Dec 1998) |
| dracunculosis | Infection with Dracunculus medinensis. (05 Mar 2000) |