draft 
The portion of the design which contains the three plans 
we haw just liern clrsmlim-j, tiwlhcr ilh Hi.' positions 
uf ilrrks, ports, and general outline of the Imll. is trnii.-.t 
tli.' .<ln-<-r <l<-ni>>ttit, and thU is the dniwiiij; which is rhietly 
i c .,ni! nl in laying-olf. Thearle, Naval Arch., 5 8. 
Split draft, in a steam-boiler, such an arrangement of 
the draft that tile curt nit of hot air and snmkc is divided 
ami . iiiiscil topx-isolt l.y tun in- UK. re Hues. /;. //. Rni'lht. 
To have a draft, in <v<r/<., iid of mortised work when 
tile piiiholc through tile tenon is made nearer the shoulder 
than the corresponding; hole through the cheeks of the 
mortise, so that when the pin is driven it draws the purls 
guiltily together. (Se,. nlsu irhrrt-tlrnft.) 
II. a. 1. Used or suited for drawing loads: 
as, draft cattle. [More properly in composi- 
tion. See draft-cattle, etc.] 2. Being on 
draught; drawn as required from the cask : as, 
draught ale. 
draft'^draught 1 (draft),*, t. [< drafft, draught, 
n.] 1. To draw; pull. [Kare.] 
The cold and dense polar water, as it flows In at the 
In. ill-ill of the equatorial column, will not directly take 
the place of that which has been drafted off from the sur- 
face. H'. B. Carpenter, in Croll's Climate and Time, p. 164. 
2. In weaving, to draw (thread) through the 
heddles. 
The weaver . . . adopts some other arrangement, to 
devise which lie constructs a plan which will not only 
represent the ilrau-ihtiii'j or entering of the warp threads 
through the headles, but show also the cording or the at- 
tachment of the treadles to the headlcs. 
A. Barlow, Weaving, p. 108. 
3. To draw out by selection, as for service; 
levy; conscript; specifically, to select (persons) 
by a draft for military purposes. 
This Cohen-Caph-El was some royal seminary in Upper 
Egypt, from whence they drafted novices to supply their 
colleges and temples. Ilolwelt, Diet. 
Soldiers were being drafted ; but the draft was very un- 
popular. T. W. Higginsnn, Young Folks' Hist. U. S., p. 308. 
4. To draw in outline ; delineate ; sketch ; out- 
line. 5. To prepare the proposed form of, as 
a document or writing of any kind; make a first 
sketch of in writing : as, to draft a memorial 
or a lease. 
He [John Adams] drew up the rules and regulations for 
the Navy, the foundation of the present naval code, also 
he drafted the Articles of War. 
Theodore Parker, Historic Americans. 
A proclamation, drafted by himself [Lincoln), copied on 
the spot by his secretary, was concurred in by his Cabinet. 
The Century, XXXV. 721. 
draft 2 t, draught 2 !, n. Same as draff. 
Y draftes of wine, floces. 
Levins, Manip. Vocab., col. 0, 1. 19. 
draft-animal (draft'an*i-mal), w. An animal, 
as a horse, mule, or ox, usecl in drawing loads, 
draft-bar (draft'bar), n. 1. A bar to which 
the traces are attached in harnessing horses or 
other animals for drawing; a swingletree. 2. 
In a railroad-car, the bar to which the coupling 
is attached, 
draft-box (draft'boks), n. An air-tight tube 
for carrying to the tail-race the water from an 
elevated water-wheel, 
draft-cattle (draft'kat'l), n.pl. Animals used 
in drawing loads. 
1755 
draught's, poss.caseof draft 1 , draughfl,+ man.] 
1. One who draws or prepares plans, sketches, 
or designs ; one skilled in drawing. 
Exact knowledge of these principles ought to be at the 
fingers' ends of every ornamental draughtsman. 
Athenaeum, Jan. 14, 1888, p. 60. 
2. One who draws up a written instrument; 
one skilled in the preparation of pleadings and 
conveyances. 
Tlie mischiefs arising from the amendment of hills arc 
much aggravated by the peculiar canons of interpretation 
which the insulation of draftsmen forces upon our tribu- 
nals. Maine, Village Communities, p. 374. 
3. One who drinks drams ; a tippler. [Bare.] 
The wholesome restorative above mentioned [water- 
tirnel | may be given in tavern-kitchens to all the morniiii! 
draughtsmen within the walls when they call for wine be- 
fore noon. Toiler, No. 241. 
4. A piece or "man" used in the game of 
checkers or draughts. [In the last two senses 
spelled only draughtsman.] 
draftsmanship, draughtsmanship (drafts'- 
inan-ship), . The skill or work of a drafts- 
man. 
This method of shading affords scope as well for survey- 
ing skill as for draughtsmanship. 
R. A. Proctor, Light Science, p. 281. 
draft-spring (draft'spring), n. A spring form- 
ing part of a trace or tog, used to relieve the 
draft-animal from sudden strains. Also draft- 
tug. 
draft-tree (draft'tre), n. The neap or tongue 
of a wagon. 
draft-tug (draft'tug), n. 1. A trace of a har- 
ness. 2. A short section attached to the draft- 
eye of the hame in a harness, to which the trace 
proper is buckled. E. H. Knight. 3. Same as 
draft-spring. 
drafty i, draughty 1 (draf'ti), a. [< draffl, 
draught 1 , + -yi.] Of or pertaining to drafts of 
air; exposed to drafts: as, a drafty hall. 
Some had no hangings for their great draughty rooms. 
JM Sa Yonge, Stray Pearls. 
Had I not lost three of my best d rautjht-cattle t 
Pop. Set. Mo., 
XXIX. 023. 
draft-compasses (draft 'kum/ pas -ez), n.pl. 
Compasses with movable points, used for mak- 
ing tne finer lines in mechanical drawings, as 
l>lans, etc. 
draft-equalizer (draft'e"kwal-I-zer), n. A form 
of whippletreo designed for three horses; a 
trebletree. 
draft-eye (draft'i), n. In a harness, a short arm 
attached to the hame, and with a hole drilled 
in its end, to which the tug is secured. 
draft-hole (draft'hol), n. An opening through 
which air is supplied to a furnace. 
draft-hook (draft'huk), H. A large hook of 
iron fixed on the cheeks of a gun-carriage, there 
being two on each side, one near the trunnion- 
hole and the other at the train, used in draw- 
ing the gun backward and forward by means of 
draft-ropes. 
draft-horse (flraft'hfirs), n. A horse used for 
drawing heavy loads. 
draftiness, draughtiness (draf'ti-nes), n. The 
condition of bein^ drafty, or of abounding in 
drafts. 
draft-OX (draft'oks), n. ; pi. draft-oxen (-ok'sn). 
[ME. dnight-ox.'] An ox used for drawing loads. 
draft-rod (draft'rod), n. A rod extending be- 
neath the beam of a plow from the clevis to the 
sheth, and taking the strain off the beam. E. 
H. Kniciht. 
draftsman, draughtsman (drafts 'man), . ; 
pi. draftsmen, drauyhtxiiicH (-men). [< draffs, 
draftyst. draughty'-^ (draf'ti), a. [< drafft, 
draught*, for draff, + -y l . Cf. draff y.~\ Like 
draff; worthless; nasty. Chaucer. 
To stand whole yeares, tossing and tumbling the filth 
that falleth from so many draughty inventions as daily 
swarme in our printing house. 
Return from Parnassus (1808). 
drag (drag), v. ; pret. and pp. dragged, ppr. 
dragging. [< ME. draggen, a late secondary 
form of dratcen, early ME. drazen, dragen, due 
to Scand. influence: cf. Sw. dragga = Dan. 
dra-gge, search with a grapnel, drag (def. 3) 
(associated with the noun: see drag, n.); cf. 
also Icel. dragna, intr., drag, trail along; < Icel. 
draga = Sw. draga = Dan. iirage = AS. dragan, 
E. draw : see draw. Hence draggle.] I. trans. 
1. To draw along by main force; pull; haul. 
The other disciples came in a little ship, . . . dragging 
the net with fishes. John \\i. 8. 
He ... It not only content to drag me at his chariot- 
wheels ; but he makes a shew of me. Stillingfleet. 
The Church [of England] had fallen, and had, in its fall, 
dragged down with it a monarchy which had stood six 
hundred years. Macatdaii, Leigh Hunt. 
2. To draw along slowly or heavily, as some- 
thing difficult to move : as, to drag one foot af- 
ter the other. 3. To draw a grapnel through 
or at the bottom of, as a river or other body of 
water, in search of something: as, they dragged 
the pond. Hence 4. Figuratively, to search 
painfully or carefully. 
While I dragg'd my brains for such a song. 
Tennyson, Princess, Iv. 
5. To break, as land, by drawing a drag or har- 
row over it; harrow. [U. S.] To drag in or 
Into, to introduce unnecessarily or unsuitably : as, to 
drag in an allusion to private affairs ; why is this subject 
dragged into the discussion? 
If he must suffer, he must drag official gentlemen into 
an immortality most undesirable, and of which they have 
already some disagreeable forebodings. 
Emerson, John Brown. 
To drag anchor. See aHrAri.=Syn. 1. Haul, Tug, 
etc.(see draw); trail. 
II. in trans. 1. To be drawn along or trail on 
the ground; be pulled or hauled along: as, an 
anchor that does not hold is said to drag. 
2. To move or proceed heavily, laboriously, or 
slowly ; move on languidly or with effort. 
The day drays through, though storms keep out the sun. 
Byron, Childe Harold, iii. 32. 
Through the whole piece he dragged along, just half a 
beat behind the rest. Longfellow, Hyperion, iv. 4. 
Most wearily 
Month after month to him the days dragged by. 
William Harris, Earthly Paradise, II. 291. 
drag-bar 
3. To use a grapnel or drag: as, to drag for 
fish; to drag for a drowned person. 4. To 
dredge: used among oystermen. 5. To drawl 
in speaking. [Prov. Eng.] 
drag (drag), N. [= MLG. dragge, a drag-anchor, 
a grapnel; = 8w. dragg, a grappling, grapnel, 
drag ; drag, a pull, draft; = Dan. drag, a grap- 
nel, drag; drag, a pull, tug, haul, handle-shafts, 
portage, a blow, stroke, etc. ; = Icel. drag, the 
iron rim on the keel of a boat or a sledge: as- 
sociated with the verb drag, both being from 
the verb (Icel. draga, etc.) represented by draw : 
see dray 1 , v. , drag, v. . and dra . ] 1 . Something 
that is, or is designed to be, dragged, hauled, or 
tugged. Specifically (a) A grapnel, a weighted net, or 
other similar device for dragging the bottom of a liody of 
water, as In searching for the body of a drowned person. 
(6) A drag-net, (c) A dredge, (d) A heavy harrow : same 
as timkr-*, 7. (t) A kind of stout sledge upon hlch heavy 
bodies, especially stones, are dragged over the ground. [U. 
8.1 (/) An artificial scent, usually a bog of anise-seed, 
dragged on the ground to furnish a trail for fox-hounds. 
The Myopia hounds are also used mainly after Reynard 
himself; but at least nine out of ten runs witli the other 
packs are after a drag. The Century, XXXII. 836. 
(g) A tool used by miners for cleaning out bore-hole* before 
putting In the charge. It U usually made of light rod-Iron, 
and ends In a ta|terlng spiral, called a drag-twist. It is simi- 
lar to a wormer, but of larger size. See scraper. (A) A de- 
vice for retarding or stopping the rotation of a wheel or of 
several wheels of a carriage in descending hills, slo|tes, 
etc. See Aid. (i) A fence placed across miming water, 
consisting of a kind of hurdle which swings on hinges, 
fastened to a horizontal pole. [Prov. Eng.] (j) Xaut.. 
a kind of floating anchor, usually of spars and sails, used 
to keep the head of a ship or boat to the wind or to dimin- 
ish leeway, (k) Anything attached to a moving body 
which retards its progress, as a boat in tow of a ship ; 
hence, a person or thing forming an obstacle to the pro- 
gress or prosperity of another. 
We see it [the ocean] now in direct connection with the 
solar system, i t-s tidal wave acting as a drag upon the earth's 
rotation. Micart, Nature and Thought, p. 4. 
(i) A device for guiding wood to a saw, used in sawing 
veneers, (in) A long, high carriage, often drawn by four 
horses, uncovered, and either with seats on the sides or 
with several transverse seats. Often improperly used in 
the sense of mail-coach or tallii-lm. (n) In masonry, a 
thin plate of steel, Indented on the edge, used for finish- 
ing the dressing of soft stone which has no grit. 
2. The act of dragging; a heavy motion in- 
dicative of some impediment ; motion effected 
slowly and with labor: as, a heavy drag up-hill. 
Had a drag in his walk. Haililt. 
3. In billiards, a blow, of the nature of a push, 
on the cue-ball somewhat under the center, 
causing it to follow the object-ball for a short 
distance. 4. A hunt or chase in which an ar- 
tificial scent is substituted for a live fox. 
Sportsmen were rather disconsolate, except the happy 
few who hit on the expedient of running a drag between 
the out-line and in-line pickets for the hounds of Major 
Frazer. '. //. Russell, Diary in India, II. 357. 
5. The smell of a fox on the ground : as, the 
drag was taken up by the hounds. 6. The re- 
tardation and prolongation of signals received 
from a telegraph-line or submarine cable of 
considerable electrostatic capacity. 7. In 
printing, a slight slipping or scraping of a sheet 
on a form of types, which produces a thickened 
impression on one side of each letter. 8. In 
marine etigin., the difference between the speed 
of a screw-ship under sail and that of the screw, 
when the ship outruns the latter; the difference 
between the propulsive effects of the different 
floats of a paddle-wheel. Also called slip. 
9. In music : (a) In lute-playing, a portamento 
downward. (6) A rallentando. 10. The bot- 
tom or lower side of a molding-flask. 11. See 
the extract. 
This clay-water [water containing disintegrated kaolin- 
rock] is led into channels called ilragi, where the sand 
and coarser flakes of mica arc deposited. 
Encyc. Brit., XIV. 1. 
12. yaut., the difference between the draft 
of water forward and that aft. Qualtrovgh, 
Boat Sailer's Manual, p. 8. 13. A burglars' 
tool for prizing safes open ; a spread. Wor- 
cester. 
dragagantt, n. [< OF. dragagant: see traga- 
c(i>illi7\ Tragacanth. 
dragantt, [= D. Dan. Sw. dragant, < OF. 
dragant: see tragacanth.'] Tragacanth. 
dragantin (dra-gan'tin), n. [< dragant + -in 2 .] 
A mucilage obtained from gum tragacanth. 
drag-bar (drag'biir), n. 1. A strong iron rod, 
witli an eyehole at .each end, connecting a lo- 
comotive engine and tender by means of the 
drag-bolt and spring. It is also generally at- 
tached to freight-cars. In the United States 
called draw-bar. 2. The bar of a drag for re- 
tarding or stopping the wheels of carriages de- 
scending inclines. 
