Part 3458

<i>Shak.</i>

<cs><col>To draw to a head</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <cd>To begin to suppurate; to ripen, as a boil.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> Fig.: <cd>To ripen, to approach the time for action; as, the plot <i>draws to a head<i>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Draw</h1> <Xpage=452>

<hw>Draw</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of drawing; draught.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A lot or chance to be drawn.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A drawn game or battle, etc.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>That part of a bridge which may be raised, swung round, or drawn aside; the movable part of a drawbridge. See the Note under <er>Drawbridge</er>.</def> <mark>[U.S.]</mark>

<h1>Drawable</h1> <Xpage=452>

<hw>Draw"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being drawn.</def>

<h1>Drawback</h1> <Xpage=452>

<hw>Draw"back`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A lose of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature.</def>

<blockquote>The avari<?/e of Henry VII . . . . must be deemed a <b>drawback</b> from the wisdom ascribed to him. <i>Hallam.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Com.)</fld> <def>Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied.</def>

<i>M<?/Culloch.</i>

<h1>Drawbar</h1> <Xpage=452>

<hw>Draw"bar`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Railroad)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for coupling a locomotive to a tender or car.</def>

<h1>Drawbench</h1> <Xpage=452>

<hw>Draw"bench`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A machine in which strips of metal are drawn through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; -- also called <i>drawing bench</i>.</def>

<h1>Drawbolt</h1> <Xpage=452>

<hw>Draw"bolt`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Engin.)</fld> <def>A coupling pin. See under <er>Coupling</er>.</def>

<h1>Drawbore</h1> <Xpage=452>

<hw>Draw"bore`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Joinery)</fld> <def>A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together.</def>

<i>Weale.</i>

<h1>Drawbore</h1> <Xpage=452>

<hw>Draw"bore`</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make a drawbore in; <as>as, to <ex>drawbore</ex> a tenon</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it.</def>

<h1>Drawboy</h1> <Xpage=452>

<hw>Draw"boy`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Weaving)</fld> <def>A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office.</def>