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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Draw \Draw\, v. t. 1. In various games: a (Cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket. b (Golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left c (Billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball. d (Curling) To throw up (the stone) gently. 2. To leave (a contest) undecided; as the battle or game was drawn. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Draw \Draw\, n. 1. The result of drawing, or state of being drawn; specif.: a A drawn battle, game, or the like b The spin or twist imparted to a ball, or the like by a drawing stroke. 2. That which is drawn or is subject to drawing. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Draw \Draw\ (dr[add]), v. t. [imp. {Drew} (dr[udd]); p. p. {Drawn} (dr[add]n); p. pr & vb n. {Drawing}.] [OE. dra[yogh]en, drahen draien, drawen, AS dragan; akin to Icel. & Sw draga, Dan. drage to draw, carry, and prob. to OS dragan to bear, carry, D. dragen, G. tragen Goth. dragan; cf Skr. dhraj to move along glide; and perh. akin to Skr. dhar to hold bear. [root]73. Cf 2d {Drag}, {Dray} a cart, 1st {Dredge}.] 1. To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved to pull along to haul; to drag; to cause to follow He cast him down to ground, and all along Drew him through dirt and mire without remorse. --Spenser. He hastened to draw the stranger into a private room --Sir W. Scott. Do not rich men oppress you and draw you before the judgment seats? --James ii 6. The arrow is now drawn to the head. --Atterbury. 2. To influence to move or tend toward one's self to exercise an attracting force upon to call towards itself to attract; hence to entice; to allure; to induce. The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. --Shak. All eyes you draw, and with the eyes the heart. --Dryden. 3. To cause to come out for one's use or benefit; to extract; to educe; to bring forth; as: a To bring or take out or to let out from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well etc The drew out the staves of the ark. --2 Chron. v. 9. Draw thee waters for the siege. --Nahum iii. 14. I opened the tumor by the point of a lancet without drawing one drop of blood. --Wiseman. b To pull from a sheath, as a sword. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them --Ex. xv 9. c To extract; to force out to elicit; to derive. Spirits, by distillations, may be drawn out of vegetable juices, which shall flame and fume of themselves. --Cheyne. Until you had drawn oaths from him --Shak. d To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive. We do not draw the moral lessons we might from history. --Burke. e To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, or the like as to draw money from a bank. f To take from a box or wheel, as a lottery ticket; to receive from a lottery by the drawing out of the numbers for prizes or blanks; hence to obtain by good fortune; to win; to gain; as he drew a prize. g To select by the drawing of lots Provided magistracies were filled by men freely chosen or drawn. --Freeman. 4. To remove the contents of as: a To drain by emptying; to suck dry. Sucking and drawing the breast dischargeth the milk as fast as it can generated. --Wiseman. b To extract the bowels of to eviscerate; as to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal. In private draw your poultry, clean your tripe. --King. 5. To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence also to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave. ``Where I first drew air.'' --Milton. Drew, or seemed to draw, a dying groan. --Dryden. 6. To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire. How long her face is drawn! --Shak. And the huge Offa's dike which he drew from the mouth of Wye to that of Dee. --J. R. Green. 7. To run, extend, or produce, as a line on any surface; hence also to form by marking; to make by an instrument of delineation; to produce, as a sketch, figure, or picture. 8. To represent by lines drawn; to form a sketch or a picture of to represent by a picture; to delineate; hence to represent by words to depict; to describe. A flattering painter who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be not as they are --Goldsmith. Can I, untouched, the fair one's passions move Or thou draw beauty and not feel its power? --Prior. 9. To write in due form to prepare a draught of as to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange. Clerk, draw a deed of gift. --Shak. 10. To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; -- said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as a ship draws ten feet of water. 11. To withdraw. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Go wash thy face, and draw the action --Shak. 12. To trace by scent; to track; -- a hunting term. Note: Draw, in most of its uses, retains some shade of its original sense to pull to move forward by the application of force in advance, or to extend in length, and usually expresses an action as gradual or continuous, and leisurely. We pour liquid quickly, but we draw it in a continued stream. We force compliance by threats, but we draw it by gradual prevalence. We may write a letter with haste, but we draw a bill with slow caution and regard to a precise form We draw a bar of metal by continued beating. {To draw a bow}, to bend the bow by drawing the string for discharging the arrow. {To draw a cover}, to clear a cover of the game it contains. {To draw a curtain}, to cause a curtain to slide or move either closing or unclosing. ``Night draws the curtain, which the sun withdraws.'' --Herbert. {To draw a line}, to fix a limit or boundary. {To draw back}, to receive back as duties on goods for exportation. {To draw breath}, to breathe. --Shak. {To draw cuts} or {lots}. See under {Cut}, n. {To draw in}. a To bring or pull in to collect. b To entice; to inveigle. {To draw interest}, to produce or gain interest. {To draw off}, to withdraw; to abstract. --Addison. {To draw on}, to bring on to occasion; to cause ``War which either his negligence drew on or his practices procured.'' --Hayward. {To draw one out}, to elicit cunningly the thoughts and feelings of another. {To draw out}, to stretch or extend; to protract; to spread out -- ``Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?'' --Ps. lxxxv. 5. ``Linked sweetness long drawn out.'' --Milton. {To draw over}, to cause to come over to induce to leave one part or side for the opposite one {To draw the longbow}, to exaggerate; to tell preposterous tales. {To draw (one)} {to or on to} (something), to move to incite, to induce. ``How many actions most ridiculous hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy?'' --Shak. {To draw up}. a To compose in due form to draught; to form in writing. b To arrange in order as a body of troops; to array. ``Drawn up in battle to receive the charge.'' --Dryden. Syn: To {Draw}, {Drag}. Usage: Draw differs from drag in this that drag implies a natural inaptitude for drawing, or positive resistance; it is applied to things pulled or hauled along the ground, or moved with toil or difficulty. Draw is applied to all bodies moved by force in advance, whatever may be the degree of force; it commonly implies that some kind of aptitude or provision exists for drawing. Draw is the more general or generic term, and drag the more specific. We say the horses draw a coach or wagon, but they drag it through mire; yet draw is properly used in both cases. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Draw \Draw\, v. i. 1. To pull to exert strength in drawing anything to have force to move anything by pulling; as a horse draws well the sails of a ship draw well Note: A sail is said to draw when it is filled with wind. 2. To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well The woman saith unto him Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with and the well is deep. --John iv 11. 3. To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement. Keep a watch upon the particular bias of their minds, that it may not draw too much --Addison. 4. (Med.) To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism; -- said of a blister, poultice, etc 5. To have draught, as a chimney, flue, or the like to furnish transmission to smoke, gases, etc 6. To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword. So soon as ever thou seest him draw; and as thou drawest, swear horrible. --Shak. 7. To perform the act or practice the art, of delineation; to sketch; to form figures or pictures. ``Skill in drawing.'' --Locke. 8. To become contracted; to shrink. ``To draw into less room.'' --Bacon. 9. To move to come or go literally, to draw one's self -- with prepositions and adverbs; as to draw away to move off esp. in racing, to get in front; to obtain the lead or increase it to draw back to retreat; to draw level, to move up even (with another); to come up to or overtake another; to draw off to retire or retreat; to draw on to advance; to draw up to form in array; to draw near nigh, or towards, to approach; to draw together, to come together, to collect. 10. To make a draft or written demand for payment of money deposited or due; -- usually with on or upon You may draw on me for the expenses of your journey. --Jay. 11. To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo draught; as a carriage draws easily. 12. To sink in water; to require a depth for floating. ``Greater hulks draw deep.'' --Shak. {To draw to a head}. a (Med.) To begin to suppurate; to ripen, as a boil. b Fig.: To ripen, to approach the time for action as the plot draws to a head. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Draw \Draw\, n. 1. The act of drawing; draught. 2. A lot or chance to be drawn. 3. A drawn game or battle, etc [Colloq.] 4. That part of a bridge which may be raised, swung round, or drawn aside; the movable part of a drawbridge. See the Note under {Drawbridge}. [U.S.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: draw n 1: a gully that is shallower than a ravine 2: the situation in a contest in which the winner is undecided at the end "the game ended in a draw"; "their record was 3 wins, 6 losses and a tie" [syn: {standoff}, {tie}] 3: an entertainer who attracts large audiences; "he was the biggest drawing card they had" [syn: {drawing card}, {attraction}] 4: anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random; "the luck of the draw" or "they drew lots for it" [syn: {lot}] 5: a card or cards dealt or taken from the pack; "he got a pair of kings in the draw" 6: a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer [syn: {hook}] 7: the quarterback moves back as if to pass and then hands the ball to the fullback who is running toward the line of scrimmage [syn: {draw play}] 8: poker in which a player can discard cards and receive substitutes from the dealer; "he played only draw and stud" [syn: {draw poker}] 9: the act of drawing or hauling something "the haul up the hill went very slowly" [syn: {haul}, {haulage}] v 1: cause to move along the ground by pulling; "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled" [syn: {pull}, {force}] [ant: {push}] 2: attract or elicit; "The school attracts students with artistic talents"; "His playing drew a crowd" [syn: {attract}, {fetch}, {pull}, {pull in}, {draw in}] 3: get or derive; "He drew great benefits from his membership in the association" [syn: {reap}] 4: make a mark or lines on a surface; "draw a line"; "draw the outlines of a figure in the sand"; "trace an animal shape" [syn: {trace}, {line}, {outline}, {describe}, {delineate}] 5: make formulate, or derive in the mind; "I draw a line here"; "draw a conclusion"; "draw parallels"; "make an estimate"; "What do you make of his remarks?" [syn: {make}] 6: bring take or pull out of a container or from under a cover; "draw a weapon" [syn: {pull}, {pull out}, {get out}, {take out}] 7: make a drawing of represent by drawing, with a pencil, chalk, etc on a surface; "She drew an elephant" 8: take liquid out of a container or well "She drew water from the barrel" [syn: {take out}] 9: give a description of "He drew an elaborate plan of attack" [syn: {describe}, {depict}] 10: select or take in from a given group or region; "The participants in the experiment were drawn from a representative population" 11: draw responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.; "The President's comments drew sharp criticism from the Republicans"; "The comedian drew a lot of laughter" 12: suck in or take as of air; "draw a deep breath"; draw on a cigarette" [syn: {puff}, {drag}] 13: move or go steadily or gradually; "The crowd is drawing nearer to the square" 14: remove funds, from a bank account; "She drew $2,000 from the account" [syn: {withdraw}, {take out}] [ant: {deposit}] 15: choose at random; "draw a card"; "cast lots" [syn: {cast}] 16: in baseball: earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher; "He drew a base on balls" [syn: {get}] 17: bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition; "She was drawn to despair"; "The President refused to be drawn into delivering an ultimatum" 18: cause to flow: "draw blood" 19: write a legal document or paper; "The will was drawn when he was 89 years old" 20: engage in drawing; "He spent the day drawing in the garden" 21: move or pull so as to cover or uncover something "draw the shades"; "draw the curtains" 22: allow a draft; "This chimney draws very well" 23: require a specified depth for floating; "This boat draws 70 inches" 24: be able to take in as of liquids; "The sponge absorbs water well" [syn: {absorb}, {suck}, {imbibe}, {soak up}, {sop up}, {suck up}, {take in}, {take up}] 25: to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips," "This material drew after having been washed in hot water" [syn: {pucker}, {rumple}, {cockle}, {crumple}, {knit}] 26: pull back the sling of (a bow); "The archers were drawing their bows" [syn: {pull back}] 27: finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.; "The teams drew a tie" [syn: {tie}] 28: contract; "Her skin drew in the cold air" 29: reduce the diameter of (a wire or metal rod) by pulling it through a die; "draw wire" 30: steep in or as if in the manner of tea 31: remove the entrails of "draw a chicken" [syn: {disembowel}, {eviscerate}] 32: flatten, stretch, or mold metal or glass, by rolling or by pulling it through a die or by stretching; "draw steel" 33: cause blood, pus, or other bodily fluids to localize at one point
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