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<p><b>8.</b> <fld>(Milling)</fld> <def>The slant given to the furrows in the dress of a millstone.</def>

<p><b>9.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See <er>Draught</er>.</def>

<p><b>10.</b> <def>A current of air. Same as <er>Draught</er>.</def>

<h1>Draft</h1> <Xpage=450>

<hw>Draft</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as <er>Draught</er>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. Same as <er>Draught</er>.</def>

<note>&hand; The forms <i>draft</i> and <i>draught</i>, in the senses above-given, are both on approved use.</note>

<cs><mcol><col>Draft box</col>, <col>Draft engine</col>, <col>Draft horse</col>, <col>Draft net</col>, <col>Draft ox</col>, <col>Draft tube</col></mcol>. <cd>Same as <i>Draught box<i>, <i>Draught engine<i>, etc. See under <er>Draught</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Draft</h1> <Xpage=450>

<hw>Draft</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Drafted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Drafting</er>.]</wordforms>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To draw the outline of; to delineate.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To compose and write; <as>as, to <ex>draft</ex> a memorial</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select.</def>

<blockquote>Some royal seminary in Upper Egypt, from whence they <b>drafted</b> novices to supply their colleges and temples. <i> Holwell.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To transfer by draft.</def>

<blockquote>All her rents been <b>drafted</b> to London. <i> Fielding.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Draftsman</h1> <Xpage=450>

<hw>Drafts"man</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Draughtsman</er>.</def>

<h1>Drag</h1> <Xpage=450>

<hw>Drag</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See 3d <er>Dredge</er>.]</ety> <def>A confection; a comfit; a drug.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Drag</h1> <Xpage=450>

<hw>Drag</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dragged</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Dragging</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>draggen</ets>; akin to Sw. <ets>dragga</ets> to search with a grapnel, fr. <ets>dragg</ets> grapnel, fr. <ets>draga</ets> to draw, the same word as E. <ets>draw</ets>. <?/ See <er>Draw</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; <as>as, to <ex>drag</ex> stone or timber; to <ex>drag</ex> a net in fishing.</as></def>

<blockquote><b>Dragged</b> by the cords which through his feet were thrust. <i>Denham.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The grossness of his nature will have weight to <b>drag</b> thee down. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, <b>drags</b> its slow length along. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag.</def>