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To DRAPE, v. n. [drop, Fr. drapus, low Lat.] To 
make cloth.'—It was rare to fet prices by ftatute; and 
this aft did not prefcribe prices, but dinted them not to 
exceed a rate, that the clothier might drape accordingly 
as lie might afford. Bacon. —To jeer, or fatirize ; [drop¬ 
per, Fr.] It is tiled in this fenfe by the innovator Temple, 
whom nobody has imitated. 
DRA'PER, f. One who fells cloth.—If a piece of 
cloth in a draper's fnop be varioufly folded, it will appear 
of differing colours; Boyle. 
DR A'PERY, f . [draperie, Fr.] Clothwork ; the trade 
of making cloth ; woollen manufafture.—I-Ie made da- 
tutes for the maintenance of drapery, and the keeping of 
wools within the realm. Bacon. —Cloth ; duffs of wool.— • 
The Bulls and Frogs had ferved the lord Strutt with dra¬ 
pery ware for many years. Arbuthnot .— The drefs of a pic¬ 
ture or datue..—Poets are allowed the fame liberty in their 
deferiptions and comparifons, as painters in their drape¬ 
ries and ornaments. Prior. —See the article Painting. 
DRA'PET,y. Cloth; coverlet. Not in ufe : 
Thence die them brought into a dately hall, 
Wherein were many tables fair difpred, 
And ready dight with drapets fedival, 
Againd the viands diould be minidred. Spenfer. 
DRAS'CUS,yi in old writings, grains, the refufe of 
malt after brewing. AJh. 
DRAS'TIC, adj. [ drajlievs , Lat. Jpas-ixo;, Gr. from 
to effeft.] It is ufed of a medicine that works with 
fpeed ; as jalap, fcammony, and the dronger purges. 
Quincy. 
DR AVE, the pret. of drive. Drove is more ufed : 
The foe rudi’d furious as he pants for breath, 
And thro’ his naveL drove the pointed death. Pope. 
DR AVE, a river of Germany, which rifes in the moun¬ 
tains of Tyrol, and joins the Danube about dxteen miles 
below Efzek in Sclavonia. 
DRAUGH, f. [corruptly written for draff.’] Refufe ; 
{will. See Draff. 
We do not aft, that often jed and laugh . 
’Tis old, but true, dill fwine eat all the draug/i. Skakefp, 
DR. AUGHT, f. The aft of drinking.—They dung up 
one of their hogdteads, and I drank it off at a draught ; 
which I might well do, for it did not hold half a pint. 
Gulliver. —A quantity of liquor drunk at once.—Every 
draught, to him that has already quenched his third, is 
but a farther quenching of nature ; a provilion for rheum 
and difeafes. South. 
Fill high the goblets with the fparkling flood, 
And with deep draughts invoke our common god. Dryden. 
Liquor drunk for pleafure : 
Were it a draught for Juno when die banquets, 
I would not tade thy treafonous offer. Milton. 
Delicious wines th’ attending herald brought; 
The gold gave ludre to the purple draught. Pope. 
[In commerce.] An order for the payment of money, 
commonly written draft. See Bill of Exchange, vol. 
iii. p. 30. The aft of drawing or pulling carriages.—A 
general cudorn of ufing oxen for all forts of draught, would 
be, perhaps the greated improvement. Temple. —The mod 
occafion that farmers have, is for draught horfes. Morti¬ 
mer .— The quality of being drawn.—The Hertfordfliire 
wheel-plough is the dronged for mod ufes, and of the 
eaded draught. Mortimer.— Rcprefentation by pifture : 
Her pencil drew whate’er her foul defign’d, 
And oft the happy draught furpafs’d the image in her 
mind. Dryden. 
Delineation; Iketch ; outline.—A good inclination is but 
tire fird rude draught of virtue ; but the dnilhing drokes 
are from the will. South .— A pifture drawn.—Whereas 
in other creatures we have but the trace of his footdeps, 
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in man we have the draught of his. hand ; in him were 
united all the fcattered perfeftions of the creature. South. 
■—The aft of [weeping with a net.—Upon the draught of 
a pond, not one filh was left, but two pikes grown to an 
exceflive bignefs. Hale.— The quantity of fillies taken by 
once drawing the net.—He laid down his pipe, and caff 
his net, which brought him a very great draught. L'E- 
Jlrcmge .—The a ft of diooting with the bow.—.Geoffrey 
of Boullion, at one draught of his bow, diooting againd 
David’s tower in Jerufalem, broached three feetlefs birds 
called allerions. Camden .—Diverfion in war ; the aft of 
didurbing the main defign ; perhaps fudden attack.—I 
conceive the manner of your handling of the fervice, by 
drawing fudden draughts upon the enemy, when he look- 
eth not for you. Spenfer .—Forces drawn off from the main 
army ; a detachment.—Such a drdught. of forces would 
lelfen the number of thofe that might othervsife be em¬ 
ployed. Addifon .—A fink; a drain.—Whatfoever enter- 
eth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is-cafi out 
into the draught. Matt. xv. 17.—The depth which a vef- 
fel draws, or finks into the water.—With a frnall veffel 
one may keep within a mile of the fliore, go amongd 
rocks, and pafs over flioals, where a veffel of any draught 
would drike. Ellis. 
With roomy decks, her guns of mighty drength, 
Deep in her draught, and warlike in her length. Dryden, 
[In the plur. draughts . ] A kind of play refembling chefs. 
DRAUGHT'FIOUSE,yi A hoiife in which filth is de- 
pofited.—And they brake down the image of Baal, and 
brake down the houfe of Baal, and made it a draughthoufe, 
2 Kings. 
DRAUN'SEN SEA, a lake of Pruflia, in the province 
of Ermeland, a little to the fouth of Elbing. 
DRAW, a town of Perlia, in the province of Segedan: 
feventy miies north-wed of Zareng. 
To DRAW, v. a. pret. drew ; part. paff. drawn; [bjiaw 
gan, Sax.] To pull along; not to carry..—Then fliall 
all Ifrael bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it 
into the river. 2 Sam. —To pull forcibly ; to pluck.—He 
could not draw the dagger out of his belly. Judges, ii. 22. 
—To bring by violence ; to drag.—Do not rich men op* 
prefs you, and draw you before the judgment-feats ? James 
ii. 6.—To raife out of a deep place.—They drew up Je¬ 
remiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon. 
Jer. xxxviii. 13.—To fuck.—He hath drawn thee dry. 
Ecclus. xiii. 7.—Sucking and drawing the bread difcharg* 
eth the milk as fad as it can be generated, Wifcman. —1 o 
attraft ; to call towards itfelf.—We fee that fait, laid to 
a cut finger, healeth it; fo as it feemeth fait drawetk 
blood, as well as blood drawetk fait. Bacon. —Majedy in 
an eclipfe, like the fun, draws eyes that would not have 
looked towards it if it had fliined out. Suckling. —To 
draw as a magnet does : 
She had all magnetic force alone, 
To draw and faden hundred parts in one. Donne, 
To inhale : 
Thus I call’d, and dray’d I know not whither, 
From where I fird drew air, and fird beheld 
This happy light. * Milton. 
To take from any thing containing or holding.—They 
drew out the daves of the ark. 2 Chron. —To take off the 
fpit or broacher: 
They cut out legs and fillets for the fead, 
Which drawn andferv’d, their hunger they-appeafe. Dryd» 
To take from a calk : 
The wine of life is drawn, and the meer lees 
Are left this vault to brag of. Shakefpeare. 
To pull a fword from the flieath.—I will draw my fword j 
my hand fliall dedroy them. Exod. xv. 
In all your wars good fortune blew' before you. 
Till in my fatal caufe your fword was drawn ; 
