·noun The act of drawing; draught.
II. Draw ·noun A drawn game or battle, ·etc.
III. Draw ·vt To remove the contents of.
IV. Draw ·noun A lot or chance to be drawn.
V. Draw ·vt To select by the drawing of lots.
VI. Draw ·vt To Withdraw.
VII. Draw ·vt To drain by emptying; to suck dry.
VIII. Draw ·vt To pull from a sheath, as a sword.
IX. Draw ·vi To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword.
X. Draw ·add. ·vt To throw up (the stone) gently.
XI. Draw ·add. ·noun A drawn battle, game, or the like.
XII. Draw ·vi To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.
XIII. Draw ·vi To become contracted; to Shrink.
XIV. Draw ·add. ·noun That which is drawn or is subject to drawing.
XV. Draw ·vi To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well.
XVI. Draw ·add. ·noun The result of drawing, or state of being drawn;.
XVII. Draw ·vt To trace by scent; to Track;
— a hunting term.
XVIII. Draw ·vi To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement.
XIX. Draw ·add. ·vt To leave (a contest) undecided; as, the battle or game was drawn.
XX. Draw ·add. ·noun The spin or twist imparted to a ball, or the like, by a drawing stroke.
XXI. Draw ·vi To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo draught; as, a carriage draws easily.
XXII. Draw ·vi To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism;
— said of a blister, poultice, ·etc.
XXIII. Draw ·vi To have draught, as a chimney, flue, or the like; to furnish transmission to smoke, gases, ·etc.
XXIV. Draw ·vi To make a draft or written demand for payment of money deposited or due;
— usually with on or upon.
XXV. Draw ·vt To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as, to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange.
XXVI. Draw ·add. ·vt To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
XXVII. Draw ·vt To Extract; to force out; to Elicit; to Derive.
XXVIII. Draw ·vi To perform the act, or practice the art, of delineation; to Sketch; to form figures or pictures.
XXIX. Draw ·vt To extract the bowels of; to Eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal.
XXX. Draw ·vt 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.
XXXI. Draw ·vt To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to Derive.
XXXII. Draw ·vt 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.
XXXIII. Draw ·add. ·vt 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.
XXXIV. Draw ·noun 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.
XXXV. Draw ·add. ·vt 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.
XXXVI. Draw ·vt To extend in length; to Lengthen; to Protract; to Stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire.
XXXVII. Draw ·vi 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.
XXXVIII. Draw ·vt 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.
XXXIX. Draw ·vt To take into the lungs; to Inhale; to Inspire; hence, also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to Heave.
XL. Draw ·vt 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.
XLI. Draw ·vt 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.
XLII. Draw ·vt 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.
XLIII. Draw ·vt 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.
XLIV. Draw ·vt 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.
XLV. Draw ·vi 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.