Drabbish
(Drab"bish) a. Having the character of a drab or low wench. "The drabbish sorceress." Drant.
Drabble
(Drab"ble) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drabbled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Drabbling ] [.See Drab, Draff.]
To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to drabble a gown or cloak. Halliwell.
Drabble
(Drab"ble) v. i. To fish with a long line and rod; as, to drabble for barbels.
Drabbler
(Drab"bler) n. (Naut.) A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it
a greater depth, or more drop.
Drabble-tail
(Drab"ble-tail`) n. A draggle- tail; a slattern. Halliwell.
Dracæna
(||Dra*cæ"na) n. [NL., fr. Gr. she-dragon.] (Bot.) A genus of liliaceous plants with woody stems
and funnel-shaped flowers.
Dracæna Draco, the source of the dragon's blood of the Canaries, forms a tree, sometimes of gigantic
size.
Dracanth
(Dra"canth) n. A kind of gum; - - called also gum tragacanth, or tragacanth. See Tragacanth.
Drachm
(Drachm) n. [See Drachma.]
1. A drachma.
2. Same as Dram.
Drachma
(||Drach"ma) n.; pl. E. Drachmas L. Drachmæ [L., fr. Gr. . See Dram.]
1. A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, having a different value in different States and at different
periods. The average value of the Attic drachma is computed to have been about 19 cents.
2. A gold and silver coin of modern Greece worth 19.3 cents.
3. Among the ancient Greeks, a weight of about 66.5 grains; among the modern Greeks, a weight equal
to a gram.
