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Dab

Dab (dab)
n.(d1913 webster dictionaryb)
Dab
[Perh. corrupted fr. adept.]
  1. A skillful hand; a dabster; an expert.
    [Colloq.]

    One excels at a plan or the titlepage, another works away at the body of the book, and the third is a dab at an index. Goldsmith.

Dab

Dab (dab)
n.
Dab
  1. A name given to several species of flounders, esp. to the European species, Pleuronectes limanda. The American rough dab is Hippoglossoides platessoides.

Dab

Dab (dab)
v. i.(d1913 webster dictionaryb)
Dab
[imp. *** p. p. Dabbed (d&abreve]bd); p. pr. *** vb. n. Dabbing.] [OE. dabben to strice] akin to OD. dabben to pinch, knead, fumble, dabble, and perh. to G. tappen to grope
  1. To strike or touch gently, as with a soft or moist substance; to tap; hence, to besmear with a dabber.

    A sore should . . . be wiped . . . only by dabbing it over with fine lint. S. Sharp.

  2. To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.
    "To dab him in the neck." Sir T. More.

Dab

Dab (dab)
n.(?)
Dab
  1. A gentle blow with the hand or some soft substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck.

    A scratch of her claw, a dab of her beak. Hawthorne.

  2. A small mass of anything soft or moist.












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