(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To pull from a sheath, as a sword.
(v. t.) To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.
(v. t.) To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from
evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To select by the drawing of lots.
(v. t.) To remove the contents of
(v. t.) To drain by emptying; to suck dry.
(v. t.) To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a
fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal.
(v. t.) To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence,
also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave.
(v. t.) To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch;
to extend, as a mass of metal into wire.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as, to draw
a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To withdraw.
(v. t.) To trace by scent; to track; -- a hunting term.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a
well.
(v. i.) To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or
enticement.
(v. i.) To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism;
-- said of a blister, poultice, etc.
(v. i.) To have draught, as a chimney, flue, or the like; to
furnish transmission to smoke, gases, etc.
(v. i.) To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword.
(v. i.) To perform the act, or practice the art, of delineation;
to sketch; to form figures or pictures.
(v. i.) To become contracted; to shrink.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) To make a draft or written demand for payment of money
deposited or due; -- usually with on or upon.
(v. i.) To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo
draught; as, a carriage draws easily.
(v. i.) To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.
(n.) The act of drawing; draught.
(n.) A lot or chance to be drawn.
(n.) A drawn game or battle, etc.
(n.) 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.
