draw 
In notes, with many a winding bout 
Of linked sweetness IOIIK iti-iticn out. 
Mittnn, I,'Alle;.TO, 1. 140. 
19. To pull to a certain point, as a bowstrinp; 
or a bow, in order to release it with an impe- 
tus. 
And a certain man "'" a bow at a venture, an<l 
the king of Israel. I Ki. xxii. 34. 
Our attention is directed to the proper manner of draw- 
iny the bow-string. Strut/, .Sport* ami I'usi lines, p. 124. 
20. To drag or force from cover, as a fox, 
badger, etc. ; force to appear. See badger-bait- 
ing. 
You may draw your Fox if you please, Sir, and make a 
Bear-Garden Flourish somewhere else. 
Congrem, Way of the World, v. 10. 
21. To bring out by coaxing or stratagem; 
cause to declare one"'s views or opinions ; be- 
tray into utterance. 
We are rather inclined to think that Mr. f'oleman was 
drawn on the occasion, and that lie failed to perceive it. 
Westminster Rev., CXXV. 680. 
22. To produce; bring in: as, the deposits 
draw interest. 23. To get or obtain, especially 
as due ; take or receive by right, as for service, 
success in competition, etc. 
If every ducat in six thousand ducats 
Were in six parts, ami every part a ducat, 
I would not draw them I would have ray bond. 
Shak., M. of V., iv. 1. 
After supper we drew cuts for a score of apricocks, the 
longest cut still to draw an apricock. 
ilarstoH and Wetatcr, Malcontent, Ind. 
24. To trace; mark or lay out: as, to draw a 
straight line. 
He [God] draws the line of his Justice parallel to that 
of his Mercy. Stillinyjleet, Sermons, II. iv. 
Warring on a later day, 
Round affrighted Lisbon drew 
The treble works, the vast designs 
Of his labonr'd rampart-lines. 
Tennyson, Death of Wellington, vi. 
26. To delineate; sketch in lines or words ; de- 
pict: as, to draw a plan or a portrait; he drew 
a graphic picture of the condition of the city. 
I haue drawne a Map from point to point, He to lie, 
and Harbour to Harbour, with the Soundings, .Sands, 
Rocks, and Land-markes. 
Cap*. John Smith, True Travels, II. 180. 
In which picture he is drawn leaning on a desk. 
/. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 52. 
The flowers therein, 
Drawn on the margin of the yellowing skin 
Where chapters ended. 
William Morns, Earthly Paradise, III. 209. 
26. To make a draft of; write out in form; in 
old use, to compose or compile : as, to draw a 
deed ; to draw a cheek. 
This buke is on Ynglese drawen. 
Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 1. 336. 
Oo, the condition's drawn, ready dated ; 
There wants but your hand to 't. 
Fletcher and Rowley, Maid in the Mill, ii. 2. 
He entreated Mr. Doctor her husband that nee would 
draw a booke [a bill or brief] to intimate to the judge his 
reasons, and hee would be very thankful! to him. 
Benvenuto, Passengers' Dialogues (1612). 
He withdrew himself to his lodging . . . and drew out 
both his propositions and answers to our complaints. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 241. 
Then, strongly fencing ill-got wealth by law, 
Indentures, covenants, articles, they draw. 
Pope, Donne's Satires, ii. 94. 
27. Naut., to require a depth of at least (so 
many feet of water) in order to float: said of 
a vessel: as, the ship draws 10 feet of water. 
And then he fell to explain to me his manner of casting 
the draught of water which a ship will draw baton-band! 
Pepys, Diary, II. 378. 
On account of their being so liable to run aground, the 
boats of the Nile are generally made to draw rather more 
water at the head than at the stern. 
E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, II. 27. 
28. In med. , to digest and cause to discharge : 
as, to draw an abscess or ulcer by a poultice or 
plaster. 29. In card-playing, to take or re- 
ceive, as a card or cards not yet dealt from the 
pack, or one to which a player is entitled from 
another hand. 30. In mining, to raise (ore) to 
the surface. Drawing, hoiitinir, winding, and lifting 
are all terms in use in various mining districts, and have 
essentially the same meaning. The engine which does 
the work is most commonly culled the irhiilinn , 
but the most comprehensive and generally used phrase 
for raising coal or ore from the mine to the surface is 
draiciiKj stuff.- Drawn forward, said of a furnace-nrc 
when fuel is added to it and the draft is turned on. To 
draw a bead on. See head. To draw a cover, to hunt 
tin 'High it for game. To draw back, to receive back, as 
duties on goods. To draw cuts. See ct<(. To draw 
down, in /or;/my, to reduce the size of (metal bars) by 
hammering. To drawdry, to draw olf or remove all the 
contents from; empty completely: as, to draw a well dry. 
1701 
My purse is large and deep, 
Beyond the reach of riot to draw dry. 
Beau, and Fl., Laws of Candy, ii. 1. 
To draw In. (a) To contract ; reduce to a smaller com- 
pass; cause to shrink or contract: as, to draw in one's 
expenses. 
MissGlsborne's flannel is promised the last of the week, 
and it must be drawn in to-morrow. 
S. Judd, Margaret, I. 2. 
(//) To collect ; bring together: as, to draw in one's loans. 
(c) To entice, allure, or inveigle : as, he was cunningly 
drawn in by a schemer. 
That a Fool should ask sneh a malicious Question! 
Deatli ! I shall be drawn in before I know where I am. 
Conyrene, Old Uatchelor, iil. 10. 
To draw in the horns. See horn. To draw It One, 
to make over-scrupulous, nice, or affected distinctions. 
[Colloq. ] To draw it mild, to express something in 
moderate terms; refrain from exaggeration. [Colloq.] 
To draw off. (a) To withdraw ; divert : as, to draw of 
the mind from a painful subject, (fe) To take or cause to 
flow : as, to draw oj/" wine or cider from a vessel, (c) To 
extract by distillation. To draw on. () To allure : en- 
tice : as, to draw one on by promises of favor. 
Some thought that Philip did but trifle with her; 
Some that she but held off to draw him on. 
Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 
(o) To occasion ; invite ; bring about. 
Was there ever People so active to draw on their own 
Ruin? Howell, Letters, I. vl. 52. 
Under colour of war, which either his negligence drew 
on, or his practices procured, he levied a subsidy. 
Sir J. llayward. 
To draw out. (a) To lengthen ; extend. 
Virgil has drawn out the rules of tillage and planting 
into two books, which Hesiod has despatched in half a one. 
Addison, Virgil's Georgics. 
(o) To lengthen in time ; cause to continue ; protract. 
Wilt thou be angry with us forever? wilt thou draw out 
thine anger to all generations? Ps. 1\\\\ . 5. 
Thy nnkindness shall his death draw out 
To lingering sufferance. Shale., M. for M., ii. 4. 
On the stage 
Of my mortality my youth hath acted 
Some scenes of vanity, drawn out at length 
By varied pleasures. Ford, Broken Heart, iii. 5. 
(c) To cause to issue forth ; draw off, as liquor from a cask. 
When one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty ves- 
sels out of the press, there were but twenty. Hag. ii. 16. 
( .' ) To extract, as the spirit of a substance, (e) To detach ; 
separate from the main body : as, to draw out a file or 
party of men. 
Draw out and take you a lamb according to your fami- 
lies, and kill the passover. Ex. xii. 21. 
(/) To range ; array in line. 
It had bin a small maistery for him, to have drawn out 
his Legions into array, and tlankt them with his thunder. 
Milton, Church-Government, ii. 1. 
All his past life, day by day, 
In one short moment he could see 
Drawn out before him. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 288. 
(.<;) To elicit by questioning or address ; cause to be de- 
clared ; call forth : as, to draw out facts from a witness. 
(A) To lead to speak or act freely ; obtain an unreserved 
exhibition of the opinions or character of : as, to draw out 
a bashful person at a party ; to draw one out on religion 
or politics. To draw over, (a) To raise, or cause to 
come over, as in a still. 
Marewood, Essay on Inebriating Liquors, 1824, p. 28, says 
that the Moslem physician Rhazes drew over a red oil by 
distillation (A. D. 908), called oleum benedictum philoso- 
phorum. AT. and Q., 6th ser., p. 159. 
(b) To persuade or induce to revolt from an opposing party, 
and to join one's own party : as, some men may be drawn 
over by interest, others by fear. To draw rein, to tighten 
the reins ; hence, to slacken one's speed ; stop. 
He reached a broad river's side, 
And there he drew his rein. 
Sir Roland (Child's Ballads, I. 226). 
To draw the curtain. See curtain. To draw the 
jacks, in weaving, to depress the jack-sinkers, one by one, 
so as to form double loops. To draw the line, to make 
a limit or division in thought, action, concession, etc. : as, 
I will do no more ; I draw the line at that. 
M. Robin seems to us to be wrong in supposing that It 
is possible to draw any absolute line of separation between 
the animal and vegetable kingdoms. 
Pasteur, Fermentation (trans.), p. 313. 
To draw the long bow. See6ow2._ To draw up. (a) 
To raise ; lift ; elevate, (b) To bring together in regular 
order or arrangement, as in line of battle ; array. 
This select assembly was drawn up in the centre of a 
prodigious multitude. Addison, Vision of Justice. 
At the very flrst review which he [Tyrconnell held, it 
was evident to all who were near to him that he did not 
know how to draw up a regiment. 
Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. 
On the 30th of May, General Halleck had his whole army 
drawn up prepared for battle. 
U. S. Grant, Personal Memoirs, I. 380. 
(c) To compose in due form, as a writing, in order to em- 
body what has been proposed; prepare in writing: as, to 
'//././ up i\ petition ; to draw up a memorandum of con- 
tract. 
The lady hereafter-mentioned, . . . having approved 
my late discourse of advertisements, obliged me to draw 
up this, and insert it in the body of my paper. 
Steele, Tatler, No. 245. 
A committee was appointed to draw up an answer. 
itacaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. 
draw 
= 8yn, 1. Drair, Dray, Haul. These words are In an as- 
et -ndinj; .-i ale aeenrilin;; tn the eilort involved. They gen- 
erally imply that the person or thing drawing, etc*., goes 
before or along. Draw usually implies merely effective 
pulling or persuasion. Drawling Is generally upon the 
ground or surface, to overcome active or passive resist- 
ance: as, to dra// a culprit to jail ; todra</a log to the mill. 
Html more distinctly Implies the use of main force against 
a counteracting impediment, as that of a dead weight, or 
against active resistance, as that of a struggling person : 
as, to li'in' a boat ashore ; to haul up a prisoner. 
Equally a nuisance are the native cartmen, with their 
long low carts drawn by mules or donkeys. 
r'. Sartoriux, In the Soudan, il. 
Death from a rough and homely feast 
Drew them away. 
William Morrin, Earthly Paradise, II. 243. 
Hence will I dray thee headlong by the heels 
Unto a dunghill, which shall be thy grave. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., Iv. 10. 
Thy Doll, and Helen of thy noble thoughts, 
Is in base durance, and contagious prison; 
I In "I' i/ thither 
By most mechanical and dirty hand. 
Shale., 2 Hen. IV., v. 6. 
II. intrans. 1. To produce motion, or move- 
ment of any kind, by force of pulling, suction, 
or attraction : as, an animal or an engine draws 
by sheer strength or energy ; a sail draws by 
being filled with wind and properly trimmed; 
a chimney or a stove draws by sucking in a 
current of air; a magnet draws by its inherent 
power of attraction; a blister or poultice is 
popularly said to draw from its attracting hu- 
mors to the surface or bringing an abscess to 
a head. 
An heifer . . . which hath not drawn in the yoke. 
Deut. xxi. 3. 
2. To have an attracting influence or effect; 
attract attention or attendance; exercise al- 
lurement, literally or figuratively : as, the play 
draws well. 
Example drawn, when Precept falls, 
And Sermons are less read than Tales. 
Prior, The Turtle and Sparrow. 
They should keep a watch upon the particular bias in 
their minds, that it may not draw too much. 
.\it'i;.*-"H. Spectator. 
It is a singular fact that Mr. Emerson is the most stead- 
ily attractive lecturer in America. . . . Mr. Emerson al- 
ways draws. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 375. 
3. In billiards, to make the cue-ball recoil from 
an object-ball. 4. To shrink; contract. 
I have not yet found certainly that the water itself, by 
mixture of ashes or dust, will shrink or draw into less 
room. Bacon, Nat. Hist. 
5. To move in some direction or manner in- 
dicated by an adjunct or adjuncts ; go, come, 
pass, etc., by or as if by being drawn or at- 
tracted (with reference to some specific course 
or destination): as, the wind drew strongly 
through the ravine. See phrases below. 
He, arriving with the fall of day, 
Drew (o the gate. Spenser, t. O.., VI. iil. 37. 
6. To unsheathe one's sword: as, draw and de- 
fend thyself; he drew upon me. 
Draw, If you be men. Gregory, remember thy swash- 
ing blow. Shot., R. and J., 1. 1. 
A nobleman can now no longer cover with his protec- 
tion every . . . bully who draws in his quarrel. 
Macaulay, West. Reviewer's Def. of MilL 
7. To use or practise the art of delineating 
figures : as, he draws correctly. 8. To make 
a draft or demand : with on or upon : as, to draw 
on one's imagination, experience, etc. 
It is on my own personal reminiscences that I draw for 
the following story. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, I. 98. 
Draw not too often on the gushing spring, 
But rather let its own o'erflowing tell 
Where the cool waters rise. 
Jones Very, Poems, p. 76. 
Hence 9. To make a formal written appli- 
cation through a bank or other medium for 
money or supplies : with on : as, draw on the 
firm when you need funds. 
Yon may draw on me for the expenses of your journey. 
Jay. 
10. To be susceptible to the action of drawing 
or pulling: as, the cart draws easily; the pipe 
draws freely. 
Thy balance will not draw ; thy balance will not down. 
Quarlen, Emblems, i. 4. 
11. In manuf., to leave the mold with ease, 
because of the shape given to the mold and 
therefore to the piece cast in it. in metal-casting, 
molding of pottery, and the like, care is taken that the 
shape shall be such that the least touch will disengage the 
object from the mold : thus, the sides of the mold are not 
normal to the hack, but slightly inclined, and similar pre- 
cautions are taken in other cases. See deliver! , r. i. 
12. To sink or settle in water: said of ships. 
Light boats may sail swift, though greater hulks draw 
deep. Shak., T. and C., il 3. 
