Results for draw

Definitions of draw:

part of speech: past tense

Drew.

part of speech: verb

To haul; to raise, as water from a well; to pull along; to pull out or unsheath; to attract; to suck or inhale; to take or let out a liquid; to sketch or delineate; to have, receive, or take, as money; to pull or exert strength in drawing; to move, advance, or approach.

part of speech: verb transitive

To pull along or haul; suck in; pull out; force our; to extend in length; stretch; disembowel; as, to draw a fowl; take or bring or bring out, as water; a number in a lottery, etc.; to represent on paper with a pen or pencil; to write in legal form; require to float in; as, the vessel draws twenty feet of water; inhale; as, to draw a sigh; attract or allure; receive; leave undecided; as, to draw a game.

part of speech: present participle

Drawing.

part of speech: adjective

DRAWABLE.

part of speech: verb intransitive

To pull: to practice drawing: to move: to approach:- pa. t drew; pa. p. drawn.

part of speech: verb transitive

To pull along: to bring forcibly towards one: to entice: to inhale: to take out: to deduce: to lengthen: to make a picture of, by lines drawn: to describe: to require a depth of water for floating.

part of speech: noun

The act of drawing; a game left undecided.

part of speech: verb intransitive

Act as an inducement; shrink; take, pull, or force something out; move; as, to draw near; to be pulled; to practice the art of making pictures with a pen or pencil; to write a formal demand for money, supplies, etc; as, you may draw on the bank for the amount; to allow a current of air to pass; as, the chimney draws well.

part of speech: noun

The act of drawing: anything drawn: among sportsmen, the act of forcing a fox from his cover, a badger from his hole: etc: the place where a fox is drawn. Also something designed to draw a person out to make him reveal his intentions or what he desires to conceal or keep back, or the like: a feeler. ( Slang.) " This was what in modern days is called a draw. It was a guess put boldly forth as fact to elict by the young man's answer whether he had been there lately or not."- C. Reade.

part of speech: past participle

Drawn.

Usage examples for draw:

• And then happened just what Uncle Tad had told the children would take place if they could draw a crowd outside the store. "Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Keeping Store", Laura Lee Hope

• " And I was sorry to see Gale mixed up in it," he concluded, in his effort to draw Nan out, " sorry. "Nan of Music Mountain", Frank H. Spearman

• I knew, continued Miette, with a knowing look, that you came here to draw water every morning at the same hour. "The Fortune of the Rougons", Emile Zola

• I will try and not draw blood. "Sant' Ilario", F. Marion Crawford