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To let out any liquid.—I opened the tumor by the point 
of a lancet, without drawing one drop of blood. Wifeman. 
—To take bread out of the oven.—The joiner puts boards 
into ov.ens after the batch is drawn. Mortimer. —To un- 
clofe or Aide back curtains : 
Alarm’d, and with prefaging heart he came, 
And drew the curtains, and expos’d the dame. Dryden. 
To clofe or fpread curtains.-r-Philoclea intreated Pamela 
to open her grief; who, drawing the curtain, that the can¬ 
dle might not complain of her blu thing, was ready to fpeak. 
Sidney. —To extradt.—Spirits, by diftillations, may be 
drawn out of vegetable juices, which (hall Same and •fume 
of themfelves. Cheynel —To procure as an agent caufe.— 
When he finds the hardfhip of fiavery outweigh the va¬ 
lue of life, ’tis in his power, by refitting his matter, to 
draw on himfelf death. Locke. —To produce, or bring, as 
an efficient caufe.—Religion will requite all the honour 
we can do it, by the blelfings it will draw down upon 11s. 
Tillotfon. 
When the fountain of mankind 
Did draw corruption, and God’s curfe, by fin, 
This was a charge that all his heirs did bind, 
And all his offspring grew corrupt therein. Sir J. Davies. 
To convey fecretly or gradually.—The liers in wait draw 
themfelves along. Judg.xx. 37.—Toprotradt; to length¬ 
en ; to fpin: 
•If we fliall meet again with more delight, 
Then draw my life in length; let me fuftain, 
In hopes of his embrace, the word of pain. Dryden. 
To utter lingeringly: 
The brand, amid the flaming fuel thrown, 
Or drew, or l'eem’d to draw, a dying groan. Dryden. 
To derive ; to have from fome original caufe or donor.— 
Several wits entered into commerce with the Egyptians, 
and from them drew the rudiments of fciences. Temple .— 
To deduce as from pofiulates.—From the events and re¬ 
volutions of thefe governments, are drawn the ufual in- 
dructions of princes and fiatefmen. Temple. —To imply ; 
Jo produce as a confequential inference.—What (hews the 
force of tlie inference but a view of all the intermediate 
ideas that draw in the conclulion, or propofition inferred. 
Locke. —To allure ; to entice.— Draw me not away with 
the wicked. Pfalm xxviii. 3.—To lead'as a motive : 
Your way is fhorter; 
My purpofes do draw me much about. Shakcfpeare. 
To perfuade to follow : 
The poet 
Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, ftones, and floods; 
Since nought fo fiockifh, hard, and full of rage, 
But mnfic, for the time, doth change his nature. Shakefp. 
To induce; to perfuade.—The Englifh lords did ally 
themfelves with the Irifli, and drew them in to dwell 
among them, and gave their children to be foftered by 
them. Davies. —To win ; to gain : a metaphor from 
gaming: 
This feems a fair deferving, and mud draw me 
That which my father lofes. Skakefpeare. 
To receive; to take up: as, to draw money from the 
funds: 
For thy three thoufand ducats here is fix. 
—If every ducat in iix thoufand ducats 
Were infix parts, and every part a ducat, 
I would not draw them, I would have my bond. Shakefp. 
To extort; to force : 
Can you e'er forget 
The fond embraces, and repeated blelfings, 
Which you drew from him in your lad farewel ? Add/fon. 
Towreft; to diftort.—I with that both you and others 
would ceafe from drawing the feriptures to your fantafies 
and affedtions. Whitgiftc. —Tocompofe; to form in writ¬ 
ing : uled of formulary or juridical writings.—The report 
is not unartfully drawn, in the fpirit of a pleader, who 
can find the mold plaufible topics. Swift .—Shall Ward 
draw contracts with a ftatefman’s (kill ? Pope .—To with¬ 
draw from judicial notice.—Go, wafh thy face, and draw 
thy adtion : come, thou mult not be in this humour with 
me. Skakefpeare .—To evifeerate ; todilbowel: 
In private draw your poultry, clean your tripe, 
And from your eels their (limy fubftance wipe. King. 
To convey a criminal to execution on a fledge. 
To Draw in. To apply to any purpofe by difiortion 
or violence.—A difpute, where every little ftravv is laid 
hold on, and every thing that can but be drawn in any 
way, to give colour to the argument, is advanced with 
oflentation. Locke .—To reprefent by picture, or in fancy: 
From the foft affaults of love 
Poets and painters never are fecure; 
Can I, untouch’d, the fair one’s paffions move, 
Or thou draw beauty, and not feel its pow’r. Prior. 
To form a reprefentative image.—The emperor one day 
took up a pencil which fell from the hand of Titian, who 
was then drawing his pidture ;,and, upon the compliment 
which Titian made him on that occafion, he laid, Titian 
deferves to be ferved by Caefar. Dryden .—To contradt; 
to pull back: 
Now, fporting mufe, draw in the flowing reins; 
Leave the clear dreams awhile for funny plains. Gay. 
To inveigle ; to entice.—It was the proditute faith of 
faithlefs mifereants that drew them in. and deceived them. 
South. 
To Draw off. To extradt by didillation.—Authors, 
who have thus drawn off the fpirits of their thoughts, 
fliould lie dill for fome time, till their minds have ga¬ 
thered frefh drength, and by reading, reflection, and con- 
verfation, laid in a new dock of elegancies, fentiments, 
and images ot nature. Addifon .—To drain out by a vent. 
—Stop your veffel, and have a little vent-hole dopped 
with a fpill, which never allow to be pulled out till you 
draw of a great quantity. Mortimer .—To withdraw; to 
abdract.—It draws men’s minds g^frotn the bitternefs of 
party. Addifon. 
To Draw on. To occafion; to invite.—Under colour 
of war, which either his negligence draws on, or his prac¬ 
tices procured, he levied a fubfidy. Hayward .—To caufe ; 
to bring by degrees.—The examination of the fubtile 
matter would draw on the confideration of the nice con- 
troverfies that perplex philofophers. Boyle. 
To Draw over. To raife in a dill.—I took rectified oil 
of vitriol, and by degrees mixed with it effential oil of 
wormwood, drawn over with water in a limbeck. Boyle .— 
To perfuade to revolt; to induce to change a party.— 
Some might be brought into his intereds by money, other's 
drawn over by fear. Addifon ., 
To Draw cat. To protraCt; to lengthen: 
He mud not only die the death, 
But thy unkindnefs (hall his death draw out 
To ling’ripg fufferance. Shakcfpeare. 
lo beat out, as is done to hot iron.—Batter a piece of 
iron out, or, as workmen call it, draw it out, till it comes 
to its breadth. Moxon .—To extradt; to pump,out by in- 
linuation.—Philoclea found her, and, to draw out more, 
faid (he, I have often wondered how fuch excellencies 
could be. Sidney .—To induce by motive.—What needed 
this, to draiu out from us an accufation of foreign churches? 
Hooker .—lo call to action; to detach for fervice; to range: 
Draw out a file, pick man by man, 
Such who dare die, and dear will fell their death. Dryd, 
To range in battle.—Let him defire his fuperior officer, 
that, the next time he is drawn out, the challenger may 
be poded near him. Collier, 
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