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v. To apply with short poking strokes: dabbed some paint on the worn spots.

v. To cover lightly with or as if with a moist substance.

v. To strike or hit lightly.

verb-intransitive. To tap gently; pat.

n. A small amount: a dab of jelly.

n. A quick light pat.

n. Any of various flatfishes, chiefly of the genera Limanda and Hippoglossoides, related to and resembling the flounders.

n. Chiefly British A dab hand.

v. To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing.

v. To apply a substance in this way.

n. A soft tap or blow; a blow or peck from a bird's beak; an aimed blow.

n. A soft, playful box given in greeting or approval.

n. A small amount, a blob of some soft or wet substance.

n. Fingerprint.

ad. With a dab, or sudden contact.

n. One skilful or proficient, an expert, an adept.

n. A small flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, especially Limanda limanda； a flounder.

n. A sand dab.

n. A skillful hand; a dabster; an expert.

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

verb-intransitive. To strike or touch gently, as with a soft or moist substance; to tap; hence, to besmear with a dabber.

verb-intransitive. To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.

n. A gentle blow with the hand or some soft substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck.

n. A small mass of anything soft or moist.

To strike.

To strike gently with the hand; slap softly; pat.

To pat or tap gently with some soft or moist substance; specifically, in etching, china-painting, etc., to pat or rub gently with a dabber, so as to diffuse or spread evenly a groundwork of color, etc.; smear.

To strike with a pointed or sharp weapon; prick; stab.

To dibble.

To deceive.

In stone-working, to pick holes in with a pointed tool; fret.

To prick.

To peck, as birds.

To use a dabber.

To fall down loosely.

n. A quick or sudden blow.

n. A gentle blow or pat with the hand or some soft substance.

n. A dig; a peck, as from the beak of a bird.

n. A first or imperfect impression on the metal in making a die.

n. A small lump or mass of something soft or moist; a small quantity: as, a dab of mortar; a dab of butter.

n. A trifle; a slight, insignificant thing or person: in contempt.

n. plural Refuse foots of sugar.

n. A pinafore.

n. The salt-water flounder or fluke, Limanda limanda.

n. An expert; a knowing or skilful man; a dabster.

Clever; skilled: as, a dab hand at a thing.

With a dab; without hesitation; vigorously.

v. apply (usually a liquid) to a surface

n. a light touch or stroke

v. hit lightly

n. a small quantity of something moist or liquid

"But from about the seventeenth century until the 1930s, we were called dab hands."

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dob   

dabbing    dabbed   

dabbed    dabbing    dab hand   

dabster    expert    tap    peck   

Ab    Bab    Crab    Crabbe    Fab    Lab    Mab    Rabb    ab    cab   

dollop    teacupful    smear    spoonful    blob    daub    cupful    brill    consistence    smudge