Part 524

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.