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To Draw up. To form in order of battle : 
So Muley-Zeydan found us 
Drawn up in battle, to receive the charge. Dry den. 
To form in writing ; to compofe in a formulary manner. 
•—To make a fketch, or a more perfect: model of a pic¬ 
ture, is, in the language of poets, to draw up the fcenery 
of a play. Dryden. 
To DRAW, v.n. To perform the office of a bead of 
draught.—An heifer which hath not been.wrought with, 
and which hath not drawn in the yoke. Deut.xx i. 3. —To 
aft as a weight.—They fliould keep a watcli upon the 
particular bias in their minds, that it may not draw too 
much. Addifon. —To contraft ; to ffirink.—I have not yet 
found certainly, that the water itfelf, by mixture of aflies, 
or duft, will ffirink. or draw into lefs room. Bacon. —To 
advance ; to move; to make progreffion any way.— Draw 
ye near hither all the chief of the people. 1 Sam. 
He ended ; and th’ archangel foon drew nigh, 
Not in his ffiape celeftial, but as man 
Clad to meet man. Milton. 
To draw together; to be collected ; to come together: 
They mutter there, and round the center fwarm, 
.And draw together in a globofe form. Blackmore. 
To draw a fword : 
For his fake 
Did I expofe myfelf, pure; for his love 
Drew to defend him, when he was befet. Shakefpcare. 
To praftife the art of delineation.—So much infight into 
perfpeftive, and (kill in drawing , as will enable him to 
reprefent tolerably on paper any thing he fees, ffiould be 
got. Locke. —To take a card out of the pack ; to take a 
lot.—He has drawn a black, and fmiles. Dryden. —To 
make a fore run by attrabtion. 
To Draw off. To retire; to retreat.—When the en¬ 
gagement proves unlucky, the way is to draw off by de¬ 
grees, and not to come to an open rupture. Collier. 
D Draw on. To advance ; to approach.—The fatal 
day draws on, when I m 11 ft fall. Dryden. 
To Draw up. To form troops into regular order.— 
The lord Bernard, with the king’s troops, feeing there 
was no enemy left on that fide, drew up in a large field 
oppofite to the bridge. Clarendon. 
To Draw retains, through all its varieties of ufe, fome 
{hade of its original meaning, to pull. It exprelfeS an 
aftion, gradual or continuous, and leifurely. Thus we 
forge a fword by blows, but we draw it by a continued 
line. We pour liquor quick, but we draw it in a conti¬ 
nued dream. We force compliance by threats, but we 
draw it by gradual prevalence. We write a letter with 
whatever hade, but wg draw a bill with flow fcrupulofity. 
DRAW, f. The act of drawing. The lot or chance 
drawn. 
DRA'WA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Pof- 
nania : forty-eight miles north-wed of Pofen. 
DRAW'BACK,yl Money paid back for ready pay¬ 
ment, or'any other reafon. It is commonly underflood 
of the allowance made at the cuftom-houfe, or excife- 
office, either on the exportation of our home manufac¬ 
tures, or upon certain foreign merchandife, which had 
paid duty on its importation : 
In poundage and drdwbacks I lofe half my rent; 
Whatever they give me, I muft be content. Swift. 
DRAW'BRIDGE,/; A bridge made to be lifted up, 
to hinder or admit communication at pleafure. See the 
article Bridge, vol. iii. p. 396. 
DRAWE'E,/! The perfon on whom a bill of exchange 
is drawn. 
DRAW'ER,/. One employed in procuring water from 
the well.—From the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer 
of thy water. Dcut. xxix. n.—One whofe bufinefs is to 
draw liquors from the calk : 
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Let the drawers\>t ready with wine and freffi glades ; 
Let the waiters have eyes, tho’ their tongues muft be ty’cL 
Ben Jonfon. 
That which has the power of attraction.—Love is a flame, 
and therefore we fay beauty is attractive, becaufe phyft- 
cians obferve that fire is a great drawer. Swift .—A box 
in a cafe, out of which it is drawn at pleafure.—We will 
fuppofe the China diflies taken off, and a drawer of me¬ 
dals fupplying their room. Addifon. —He that draws a bill 
of exchange.—The perfon who writes this letter is called 
in law the drawer, and he to whom it is written the drawee. 
Blackfonc. —[In the plural.] The lower part of a man’s 
drefs.—TheMaltefe harden the bodies of their-children, 
by making them go flark naked, without ihirt or drawers, 
till they are ten years old. Lofe. 
DRAW'ING,y. Delineation; reprefentation; the firft 
rudiment of the art of painting, wherein confifls the for¬ 
mation of the outline of every objeft or figure ; for the 
principles of which fee the article Painting. 
They random drawings from your flieets ffiall take, 
And of one beauty many blunders make. Pope. 
DRAW'ING, among hunters, is beating the bullies, 
&c. after a fox. —Drawing amifs, is when the hounds'hit 
the feent of their chace contrary, i. e. up the wind inftead 
of down.— Drawing in thefot, is when the hounds having 
touched the feent, draw on till they hit on the fame again. 
DRAW'ING-ROOM,yi The room in which company 
affiembles at court.—What you heard of the words fpoken 
of you in the drawing-room* was not true : the fayings of 
princes are generally as ill related as the fayings of wits. 
Pope .—The company, affiembled there. 
To DRAWL, v. n. To utter any thing in a flow dr: 2 
veling way : 
Then mount the clerks, and in one lazy tone 
Through the long heavy page drawl on. Pope. 
DR AW'LATCHES,yi Thieves and robbers, mention¬ 
ed by Lambert in his Eiren. i. c. 6. He calls them thieves, 
wafers , and roberdfmen ; the two laft words are now grown 
out of ufe. See 3 Edw. III. c. 14. 7 Rich. II. c. 5. 
DRAWN, part, [from draw."] —An army was drawn to¬ 
gether of near fix thoufand horfe. Clarendon. 
So lofty was the pile, a Parthian bow, 
With vigour drawn, muft put the ftiaft below. Dryden. 
Equal ; where each party takes his own flake.—If wc 
make a drawn game of it, or procure but moderate ad¬ 
vantages, every Britilh heart muft tremble. Addifon .— 
With a fword drawn.—What, art thou drawn among 
thofe heartlefs hinds ? Shakefpcare .—Open; put alide, or 
unclofed : 
A curtain drawn prefented to our view 
A town belieg’d. Dryden. 
Evifcerated.—There is no more faith in thee than in a 
ftoned prune ; no more truth in thee than in a drawn fox. 
Shakefpcare. —Induced as from fome motive.—The Irilh 
will better be drawn to the Englifh, than the Englifli to 
the Irilh government. Spenfer. —As this friendfttip was 
drawn together by fear on both fides, fo it was not like to 
be more durable than was the fear. Haward. 
“ Drawn wells are feldom dry.” The Latins fay, 
Puteus fi hauriatur melior evadit. The Greeks, tyfeara. otrr- 
>\Ufj.evce. yojTau. Implying that motion, ufe, and 
exercife, improve every thing. Waters, when they ftag- 
nate, become putrid. The air, not agitated by the wind, 
would be unwholefome, if not peftilential. Every in- 
ftrument of fteel, if diffufed, grows nifty ; but, above all, 
the minds of men, if not exercifed, and improved, would 
foon become dry, barren, and favage. 
DR AW'NET,y. A net for taking wildfowl, &c. See 
the article Bird-catching, vol. iii. p. 53. 
DR AW'WEI.L,/i A deep well; a well out of vvhicli 
water is drawn by a long cord.—The firft conceit, tending 
to a watch, was a drawwelT. the people of old were wont 
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