The introduction of defeasible reasoning in description logics has been a main research topic in the field in the last years. Despite the fact that various interesting formalizations of nonmonotonic reasoning for the TBox have been proposed, the application of such a kind of reasoning also to ABoxes is more problematic. In what follows we are going to present the adaptation for the ABox of a classical nonmonotonic form of reasoning, namely Lehmann and Magidor's Rational Closure. We present both a procedural and a semantical characterization, and we conclude the paper with a comparison between our and other analogous proposals.