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verb draw v. t. (past drew; past part. drawn; pres. part. drawing) 1.To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow. "He cast him down to ground, and all along Drew him through dirt and mire without remorse." "He hastened to draw the stranger into a private room." "Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?" "The arrow is now drawn to the head." 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." "All eyes you draw, and with the eyes the heart." 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." "Draw thee waters for the siege." "I opened the tumor by the point of a lancet without drawing one drop of blood." (b)To pull from a sheath, as a sword. "I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them." (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." "Until you had drawn oaths from him." (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." (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." 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." (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." 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." "Drew, or seemed to draw, a dying groan." 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!" "And the huge Offa's dike which he drew from the mouth of Wye to that of Dee." 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." "Can I, untouched, the fair one's passions move, Or thou draw beauty and not feel its power?" 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." 10.To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as, a ship draws ten feet of water. 11.To withdraw. (Obs.) "Go wash thy face, and draw the action." 12.To trace by scent; to track; a hunting term. 13.(Games) (a)(Cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket. (b)(Golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left. (c)(Billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball. (d)(Curling) To throw up (the stone) gently. 14.To leave (a contest) undecided; as, the battle or game was drawn. "Win, lose, or draw." Note: Draw, in most of its uses, retains some shade of its original sense, to pull, to move forward by the application of force in advance, or to extend in length, and usually expresses an action as gradual or continuous, and leisurely. We pour liquid quickly, but we draw it in a continued stream. We force compliance by threats, but we draw it by gradual prevalence. We may write a letter with haste, but we draw a bill with slow caution and regard to a precise form. We draw a bar of metal by continued beating. To draw a bow, to bend the bow by drawing the string for discharging the arrow. To draw a cover, to clear a cover of the game it contains. To draw a curtain, to cause a curtain to slide or move, either closing or unclosing. "Night draws the curtain, which the sun withdraws." To draw a line, to fix a limit or boundary. To draw back, to receive back, as duties on goods for exportation. To draw breath, to breathe. To draw cuts or To draw lots. See under Cut, n. To draw in. (a)To bring or pull in; to collect. (b)To entice; to inveigle. To draw interest, to produce or gain interest. To draw off, to withdraw; to abstract. To draw on, to bring on; to occasion; to cause. "War which either his negligence drew on, or his practices procured." To draw (one) out, to elicit cunningly the thoughts and feelings of another. To draw out, to stretch or extend; to protract; to spread out. "Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?" "Linked sweetness long drawn out." To draw over, to cause to come over, to induce to leave one part or side for the opposite one. To draw the longbow, to exaggerate; to tell preposterous tales. To draw (one) to or To draw (one) on to (something), to move, to incite, to induce. "How many actions most ridiculous hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy?" To draw up. (a)To compose in due form; to draught; to form in writing. (b)To arrange in order, as a body of troops; to array. "Drawn up in battle to receive the charge." Synonyms: To Draw, Drag. Draw differs from drag in this, that drag implies a natural inaptitude for drawing, or positive resistance; it is applied to things pulled or hauled along the ground, or moved with toil or difficulty. Draw is applied to all bodies moved by force in advance, whatever may be the degree of force; it commonly implies that some kind of aptitude or provision exists for drawing. Draw is the more general or generic term, and drag the more specific. We say, the horses draw a coach or wagon, but they drag it through mire; yet draw is properly used in both cases.
Draw v. i. (past drew; past part. drawn; pres. part. drawing) 1.To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling; as, a horse draws well; the sails of a ship draw well. Note: A sail is said to draw when it is filled with wind. 2.To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well. "The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep." 3.To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement. "Keep a watch upon the particular bias of their minds, that it may not draw too much." 4.(Med.) To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism; said of a blister, poultice, etc. 5.To have draught, as a chimney, flue, or the like; to furnish transmission to smoke, gases, etc. 6.To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword. "So soon as ever thou seest him, draw; and as thou drawest, swear horrible." 7.To perform the act, or practice the art, of delineation; to sketch; to form figures or pictures. "Skill in drawing." 8.To become contracted; to shrink. "To draw into less room." 9.To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one's self; with prepositions and adverbs; as, to draw away, to move off, esp. in racing, to get in front; to obtain the lead or increase it; to draw back, to retreat; to draw level, to move up even (with another); to come up to or overtake another; to draw off, to retire or retreat; to draw on, to advance; to draw up, to form in array; to draw near, draw nigh, or draw towards, to approach; to draw together, to come together, to collect. 10.To make a draft or written demand for payment of money deposited or due; usually with on or upon. "You may draw on me for the expenses of your journey." 11.To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo draught; as, a carriage draws easily. 12.To sink in water; to require a depth for floating. "Greater hulks draw deep." To draw to a head. (a)(Med.) To begin to suppurate; to ripen, as a boil. (b)Fig.: To ripen, to approach the time for action; as, the plot draws to a head.
adverb Up adv. 1.Aloft; on high; in a direction contrary to that of gravity; toward or in a higher place or position; above; the opposite of down. "But up or down, By center or eccentric, hard to tell." 2.Hence, in many derived uses, specifically: (a)From a lower to a higher position, literally or figuratively; as, from a recumbent or sitting position; from the mouth, toward the source, of a river; from a dependent or inferior condition; from concealment; from younger age; from a quiet state, or the like; used with verbs of motion expressed or implied. "But they presumed to go up unto the hilltop." "I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up." "Up rose the sun, and up rose Emelye." "We have wrought ourselves up into this degree of Christian indifference." (b)In a higher place or position, literally or figuratively; in the state of having arisen; in an upright, or nearly upright, position; standing; mounted on a horse; in a condition of elevation, prominence, advance, proficiency, excitement, insurrection, or the like; used with verbs of rest, situation, condition, and the like; as, to be up on a hill; the lid of the box was up; prices are up. "And when the sun was up, they were scorched." "Those that were up themselves kept others low." "Helen was up was she?" "Rebels there are up, And put the Englishmen unto the sword." "His name was up through all the adjoining provinces, even to Italy and Rome; many desiring to see who he was that could withstand so many years the Roman puissance." "Thou hast fired me; my soul's up in arms." "Grief and passion are like floods raised in little brooks by a sudden rain; they are quickly up." "A general whisper ran among the country people, that Sir Roger was up." "Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate." (c)To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, or the like; usually followed by to or with; as, to be up to the chin in water; to come up with one's companions; to come up with the enemy; to live up to engagements. "As a boar was whetting his teeth, up comes a fox to him." (d)To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly; quite; as, in the phrases to eat up; to drink up; to burn up; to sum up; etc.; to shut up the eyes or the mouth; to sew up a rent. Note: Some phrases of this kind are now obsolete; as, to spend up (); to kill up (). (e)Aside, so as not to be in use; as, to lay up riches; put up your weapons. Note: Up is used elliptically for get up, rouse up, etc., expressing a command or exhortation. "Up, and let us be going." "Up, up, my friend! and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double." It is all up with him, it is all over with him; he is lost. The time is up, the allotted time is past. To be up in, to be informed about; to be versed in. "Anxious that their sons should be well up in the superstitions of two thousand years ago." To be up to. (a)To be equal to, or prepared for; as, he is up to the business, or the emergency. (Colloq.) (b)To be engaged in; to purpose, with the idea of doing ill or mischief; as, I don't know what he's up to. (Colloq.) To blow up. (a)To inflate; to distend. (b)To destroy by an explosion from beneath. (c)To explode; as, the boiler blew up. (d)To reprove angrily; to scold. (Slang) To bring up. See under Bring, v. t. To come up with. See under Come, v. i. To cut up. See under Cut, v. t. & i. To draw up. See under Draw, v. t. To grow up, to grow to maturity. Up anchor (Naut.), the order to man the windlass preparatory to hauling up the anchor. Up and down. (a)First up, and then down; from one state or position to another. See under Down, adv. "Fortune... led him up and down." (b)(Naut.) Vertical; perpendicular; said of the cable when the anchor is under, or nearly under, the hawse hole, and the cable is taut. Up helm (Naut.), the order given to move the tiller toward the upper, or windward, side of a vessel. Up to snuff. See under Snuff. (Slang) What is up? What is going on? (Slang)
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