*draw*

v. t. [ imp. Counterdrew p. p. Counterdrawn p. pr. & vb. n. Counterdrawing. ] To copy, as a design or painting, by tracing with a pencil on oiled paper, or other transparent substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Sucked by cubs. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eng. Forest Law) The act of drawing after, or pursuing, deer with a dog. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling; as, a horse draws well; the sails of a ship draw well. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A sail is said to draw when it is filled with wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well. [ 1913 Webster ]

The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. John iv. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Keep a watch upon the particular bias of their minds, that it may not draw too much. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Med.) To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism; -- said of a blister, poultice, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To have draught, as a chimney, flue, or the like; to furnish transmission to smoke, gases, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword. [ 1913 Webster ]

So soon as ever thou seest him, draw; and as thou drawest, swear horrible. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To perform the act, or practice the art, of delineation; to sketch; to form figures or pictures. “Skill in drawing.” Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To become contracted; to shrink. “To draw into less room.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one's self; -- with prepositions and adverbs; as, to draw away, to move off, esp. in racing, to get in front; to obtain the lead or increase it; to draw back, to retreat; to draw level, to move up even (with another); to come up to or overtake another; to draw off, to retire or retreat; to draw on, to advance; to draw up, to form in array; to draw near, draw nigh, or draw towards, to approach; to draw together, to come together, to collect. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. To make a draft or written demand for payment of money deposited or due; -- usually with on or upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

You may draw on me for the expenses of your journey. Jay. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo draught; as, a carriage draws easily. [ 1913 Webster ]

12. To sink in water; to require a depth for floating. “Greater hulks draw deep.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To draw to a head. (a) (Med.) To begin to suppurate; to ripen, as a boil. (b) Fig.: To ripen, to approach the time for action; as, the plot draws to a head. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of drawing; draught. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A lot or chance to be drawn. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. the act of drawing a lot or chance. “The luck of the draw.” [ PJC ]

3. A drawn game or battle, etc; a tied game; a tie. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

4. That part of a bridge which may be raised, swung round, or drawn aside; the movable part of a drawbridge. See the Note under Drawbridge. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The result of drawing, or state of being drawn; specif.: (a) A drawn battle, game, or the like. (b) The spin or twist imparted to a ball, or the like, by a drawing stroke. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

6. That which is drawn or is subject to drawing. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. Drew p. p. Drawn p. pr. & vb. n. Drawing. ] [ OE. dra&yogh_;en, drahen, draien, drawen, AS. dragan; akin to Icel. & Sw. draga, Dan. drage to draw, carry, and prob. to OS. dragan to bear, carry, D. dragen, G. tragen, Goth. dragan; cf. Skr. dhraj to move along, glide; and perh. akin to Skr. dhar to hold, bear. √73. Cf. 2d Drag, Dray a cart, 1st Dredge. ] 1. To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow. [ 1913 Webster ]

He cast him down to ground, and all along
Drew him through dirt and mire without remorse. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

He hastened to draw the stranger into a private room. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? James ii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

The arrow is now drawn to the head. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To influence to move or tend toward one's self; to exercise an attracting force upon; to call towards itself; to attract; hence, to entice; to allure; to induce. [ 1913 Webster ]

The poet
Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

All eyes you draw, and with the eyes the heart. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cause to come out for one's use or benefit; to extract; to educe; to bring forth; as: (a) To bring or take out, or to let out, from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

The drew out the staves of the ark. 2 Chron. v. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

Draw thee waters for the siege. Nahum iii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

I opened the tumor by the point of a lancet without drawing one drop of blood. Wiseman.

(b) To pull from a sheath, as a sword. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. Ex. xv. 9.

(c) To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spirits, by distillations, may be drawn out of vegetable juices, which shall flame and fume of themselves. Cheyne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Until you had drawn oaths from him. Shak.

(d) To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive. [ 1913 Webster ]

We do not draw the moral lessons we might from history. Burke.

(e) To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, or the like; as, to draw money from a bank. (f) To take from a box or wheel, as a lottery ticket; to receive from a lottery by the drawing out of the numbers for prizes or blanks; hence, to obtain by good fortune; to win; to gain; as, he drew a prize. (g) To select by the drawing of lots. [ 1913 Webster ]

Provided magistracies were filled by men freely chosen or drawn. Freeman. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To remove the contents of; as: (a) To drain by emptying; to suck dry. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sucking and drawing the breast dischargeth the milk as fast as it can generated. Wiseman.

(b) To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal. [ 1913 Webster ]

In private draw your poultry, clean your tripe. King. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave. “Where I first drew air.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drew, or seemed to draw, a dying groan. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire. [ 1913 Webster ]

How long her face is drawn! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

And the huge Offa's dike which he drew from the mouth of Wye to that of Dee. J. R. Green. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To run, extend, or produce, as a line on any surface; hence, also, to form by marking; to make by an instrument of delineation; to produce, as a sketch, figure, or picture. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To represent by lines drawn; to form a sketch or a picture of; to represent by a picture; to delineate; hence, to represent by words; to depict; to describe. [ 1913 Webster ]

A flattering painter who made it his care
To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

Can I, untouched, the fair one's passions move,
Or thou draw beauty and not feel its power? Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as, to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange. [ 1913 Webster ]

Clerk, draw a deed of gift. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; -- said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as, a ship draws ten feet of water. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. To withdraw. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Go wash thy face, and draw the action. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

12. To trace by scent; to track; -- a hunting term. [ 1913 Webster ]

13. (Games) (a) (Cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket. (b) (Golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left. (c) (Billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball. (d) (Curling) To throw up (the stone) gently. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

14. To leave (a contest) undecided; as, the battle or game was drawn. “Win, lose, or draw.” [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

☞ Draw, in most of its uses, retains some shade of its original sense, to pull, to move forward by the application of force in advance, or to extend in length, and usually expresses an action as gradual or continuous, and leisurely. We pour liquid quickly, but we draw it in a continued stream. We force compliance by threats, but we draw it by gradual prevalence. We may write a letter with haste, but we draw a bill with slow caution and regard to a precise form. We draw a bar of metal by continued beating. [ 1913 Webster ]

To draw a bow, to bend the bow by drawing the string for discharging the arrow. --
To draw a cover, to clear a cover of the game it contains. --
To draw a curtain, to cause a curtain to slide or move, either closing or unclosing. “Night draws the curtain, which the sun withdraws.” Herbert. --
To draw a line, to fix a limit or boundary. --
To draw back, to receive back, as duties on goods for exportation. --
To draw breath, to breathe. Shak. --
To draw cuts or
To draw lots. See under Cut, n. --
To draw in. (a) To bring or pull in; to collect. (b) To entice; to inveigle. --
To draw interest, to produce or gain interest. --
To draw off, to withdraw; to abstract. Addison. --
To draw on, to bring on; to occasion; to cause. “War which either his negligence drew on, or his practices procured.” Hayward. --
To draw (one) out, to elicit cunningly the thoughts and feelings of another. --
To draw out, to stretch or extend; to protract; to spread out. -- “Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?” Ps. lxxxv. 5. “Linked sweetness long drawn out.” Milton. --
To draw over, to cause to come over, to induce to leave one part or side for the opposite one. --
To draw the longbow, to exaggerate; to tell preposterous tales. --
To draw (one) to or
To draw (one) on to (something), to move, to incite, to induce. “How many actions most ridiculous hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy?” Shak. --
To draw up. (a) To compose in due form; to draught; to form in writing. (b) To arrange in order, as a body of troops; to array. “Drawn up in battle to receive the charge.” Dryden.

Syn. -- To Draw, Drag. Draw differs from drag in this, that drag implies a natural inaptitude for drawing, or positive resistance; it is applied to things pulled or hauled along the ground, or moved with toil or difficulty. Draw is applied to all bodies moved by force in advance, whatever may be the degree of force; it commonly implies that some kind of aptitude or provision exists for drawing. Draw is the more general or generic term, and drag the more specific. We say, the horses draw a coach or wagon, but they drag it through mire; yet draw is properly used in both cases. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being drawn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature. [ 1913 Webster ]

The avarice of Henry VII . . . . must be deemed a drawback from the wisdom ascribed to him. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Com.) Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied. M&unr_;Culloch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Railroad) (a) An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train. (b) A bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for coupling a locomotive to a tender or car. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) A machine in which strips of metal are drawn through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; -- also called drawing bench. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Engin.) A coupling pin. See under Coupling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Joinery) A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To make a drawbore in; as, to drawbore a tenon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Weaving) A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The movable portion, or draw, is called, specifically, a bascule, balance, or lifting bridge, a turning, swivel, or swing bridge, or a rolling bridge, according as it turns on a hinge vertically, or on a pivot horizontally, or is pushed on rollers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the name of a bullying braggart character in the play by George Villiers called “The Rehearsal.” ] A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully. [ 1913 Webster ]

The leader was of an ugly look and gigantic stature; he acted like a drawcansir, sparing neither friend nor foe. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A single cut with a knife. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, draws; as: (a) One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom. Shak. (b) One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good drawer. (c) (Law) One who draws a bill of exchange or order for payment; -- the correlative of drawee. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is drawn; as: (a) A sliding box or receptacle in a case, which is opened by pulling or drawing out, and closed by pushing in. (b) pl. An under-garment worn on the lower limbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chest of drawers. See under Chest. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The process of smooth filing by working the file sidewise instead of lengthwise. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A harness for draught horses. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Railroad) The means or parts by which cars are connected to be drawn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. An old game, played by holding up the fingers. Herrick. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Railroad) The flanged outer end of a drawbar; also, a name applied to the drawgear. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of pulling, or attracting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Textile Manuf.) The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Drawing is used adjectively or as the first part of compounds in the sense of pertaining to drawing, for drawing (in the sense of pulling, and of pictorial representation); as, drawing master or drawing-master, drawing knife or drawing-knife, drawing machine, drawing board, drawing paper, drawing pen, drawing pencil, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

A drawing of tea, a small portion of tea for steeping. --
Drawing knife. See in the Vocabulary. --
Drawing paper (Fine Arts), a thick, sized paper for draughtsman and for water-color painting. --
Drawing slate, a soft, slaty substance used in crayon drawing; -- called also black chalk, or drawing chalk. --
Free-hand drawing, a style of drawing made without the use of guiding or measuring instruments, as distinguished from mechanical or geometrical drawing; also, a drawing thus executed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Abbrev. fr. withdraw-ing-room. ] 1. A room appropriated for the reception of company; a room to which company withdraws from the dining room. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The company assembled in such a room; also, a reception of company in it; as, to hold a drawing-room. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Johnson ] would amaze a drawing-room by suddenly ejaculating a clause of the Lord's Prayer. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drawing-room car. See Palace car, under Car. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. 1. A woodworker`s and joiner's tool having a blade with a handle at each end, used to shave off surfaces, by drawing it toward one; a shave; -- called also drawshave, and drawing shave. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Carp.) A tool used for the purpose of making an incision along the path a saw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. see drawing knife.
Syn. -- drawshave. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Drawled p. pr. & vb. n. Drawling. ] [ Prob. fr. draw: cf. D. dralen to linger, tarry, Icel. dralla to loiter. See Draw, and cf. Draggle. ] To utter in a slow, lengthened tone. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Theologians and moralists . . . talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A housebreaker or thief. [ Obs. ] Old Play (1631). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of speaking with a drawl; a drawl. -- Drawl"ing*ly, adv. Bacon. [1913 Webster]

n. Same as Drawbar (b). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A kind of loom used in weaving figured patterns; -- called also drawboy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A species of damask made on the drawloom. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. See Draw, v. t. & i. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drawn butter, butter melter and prepared to be used as a sort of gravy. --
Drawn fowl, an eviscerated fowl. --
Drawn game or
Drawn battle, one in which neither party wins; one equally contested. --
Drawn fox, one driven from cover. Shak. --
Drawn work, ornamental work made by drawing out threads from fine cloth, and uniting the cross threads, to form a pattern. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. ornamental needlework done by drawing threads to form lacelike patterns. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Railroad) A rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car, and bears the pull required to draw the train. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Drawing knife. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Railroad) The spring to which a drawbar is attached. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Finedrawn p. pr. & vb. n. Finedrawing. ] To sew up, so nicely that the seam is not perceived; to renter. Marryat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who finedraws. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Drawn out with too much subtilty; overnice; as, finedrawn speculations. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Drawn in. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Extended to a great length.
Syn. -- long-drawn-out. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cicadae hushed their long-drawn, ear-splitting strains. G. W. Cable. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. relatively long in duration; as, a long-drawn-out visit from my mother-in-law.
Syn. -- drawn-out, extended, prolonged, protracted. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To draw out; to extract. [ R. ] “He must the teeth outdraw.” Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]