{Dotting pen}, a pen for drawing dotted lines.
{Drawing}, or {Ruling}, {pen}, a pen for ruling lines having
a pair of blades between which the ink is contained.
{Fountain pen}, {Geometric pen}. See under {Fountain}, and
{Geometric}.
{Music pen}, a pen having five points for drawing the five
lines of the staff.
{Pen and ink}, or {pen-and-ink}, executed or done with a pen
and ink; as, a pen and ink sketch.
{Pen feather}. A pin feather. [Obs.]
{Sea pen} (Zo["o]l.), a pennatula. [Usually written
{sea-pen}.]
He cast him down to ground, and all along Drew him
through dirt and mire without remorse. --Spenser.
He hastened to draw the stranger into a private
room. --Sir W.
Scott.
Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the
judgment seats? --James ii. 6.
The arrow is now drawn to the head. --Atterbury.
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. --Shak.
All eyes you draw, and with the eyes the heart.
--Dryden.
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. --2 Chron.
v. 9.
Draw thee waters for the siege. --Nahum iii.
14.
I opened the tumor by the point of a lancet
without drawing one drop of blood. --Wiseman.
(b) To pull from a sheath, as a sword.
I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy
them. --Ex. xv. 9.
(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. --Cheyne.
Until you had drawn oaths from him. --Shak.
(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. --Shak.
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.] --Chaucer.
Go wash thy face, and draw the action. --Shak.
12. To trace by scent; to track; -- a hunting term.
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.'' --Herbert.
{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. --Shak.
{To draw cuts} or {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. --Addison.
{To draw on}, to bring on; to occasion; to cause. ``War which
either his negligence drew on, or his practices
procured.'' --Hayward.
{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?'' --Ps. lxxxv. 5. ``Linked sweetness long
drawn out.'' --Milton.
{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 on to} (something), to move, to
incite, to induce. ``How many actions most ridiculous hast
thou been drawn to by thy fantasy?'' --Shak.
{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.''
--Dryden.
Usage: 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.
2. The act or the art of representing any object by means of
lines and shades; especially, such a representation when
in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors
of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with
hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation;
also, the figure or representation drawn.
3. The process of stretching or spreading metals as by
hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and
cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies.
4. (Textile Manuf.) The process of pulling out and elongating
the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers,
to prepare it for spinning.
5. The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.
Note: Drawing is used adjectively or as the first part of
compounds in the sense of pertaining to drawing, for
drawing (in the sense of pulling, and of pictorial
representation); as, drawing master or drawing-master,
drawing knife or drawing-knife, drawing machine,
drawing board, drawing paper, drawing pen, drawing
pencil, etc.
{A drawing of tea}, a small portion of tea for steeping.
{Drawing knife}. See in the {Vocabulary}.
{Drawing paper} (Fine Arts), a thick, sized paper for
draughtsman and for water-color painting.
{Drawing slate}, a soft, slaty substance used in crayon
drawing; -- called also {black chalk}, or {drawing chalk}.
{Free-hand drawing}, a style of drawing made without the use
of guiding or measuring instruments, as distinguished from
mechanical or geometrical drawing; also, a drawing thus
executed.