Part 3456

<blockquote><b>Draw</b> thee waters for the siege. <i>Nahum iii. 14.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I opened the tumor by the point of a lancet without <b>drawing</b> one drop of blood. <i>Wiseman.</i></blockquote>

<sd>(b)</sd> <def>To pull from a sheath, as a sword</def>.

<blockquote>I will <b>draw</b> my sword, my hand shall destroy them. <i>Ex. xv. 9.</i></blockquote>

<sd>(c)</sd> <def>To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive</def>.

<blockquote>Spirits, by distillations, may be <b>drawn</b> out of vegetable juices, which shall flame and fume of themselves. <i>Cheyne.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Until you had <b>drawn</b> oaths from him. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<sd>(d)</sd> <def>To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive</def>.

<blockquote>We do not <b>draw</b> the moral lessons we might from history. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<sd>(e)</sd> <def>To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, or the like; as, to <i>draw</i> money from a bank</def>. <sd>(f)</sd> <def>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 <i>drew</i> a prize</def>. <sd>(g)</sd> <def>To select by the drawing of lots</def>.

<blockquote>Provided magistracies were filled by men freely chosen or <b>drawn</b>. <i>Freeman.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To remove the contents of</def>; as: <sd>(a)</sd> <def>To drain by emptying; to suck dry.</def>

<blockquote>Sucking and <b>drawing</b> the breast dischargeth the milk as fast as it can generated. <i>Wiseman.</i></blockquote>

<sd>(b)</sd> <def>To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; <as>as, to <ex>draw</ex> a fowl; to hang, <ex>draw</ex>, and quarter a criminal</as></def>.

<blockquote>In private <b>draw</b> your poultry, clean your tripe. <i>King.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave.</def> "Where I first <i>drew</i> air."

<i>Milton.</i>

<blockquote><b>Drew</b>, or seemed to <b>draw</b>, a dying groan. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire.</def>

<blockquote>How long her face is <b>drawn</b>! <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>And the huge Offa's dike which he <b>drew</b> from the mouth of Wye to that of Dee. <i>J. R. Green.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>A flattering painter who made it his care To <b>draw</b> men as they ought to be, not as they are. <i>Goldsmith.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Can I, untouched, the fair one's passions move, Or thou <b>draw</b> beauty and not feel its power? <i>Prior.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; <as>as, to <ex>draw</ex> a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange.</as></def>

<blockquote>Clerk, <b>draw</b> a deed of gift. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>10.</b> <def>To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; -- said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); <as>as, a ship <ex>draws</ex> ten feet of water</as>.</def>