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3 definitions found 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]: Drew \Drew\, imp. of {Draw}. From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Drew, MS (city, FIPS 20020) Location: 33.80981 N, 90.53042 W Population (1990): 2349 (877 housing units) Area: 2.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 38737
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