Part 525

(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.