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See Draft. [Obs.]

The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2)

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. Jay.

mament of big guns all of the same caliber. She has a displacement of 17,900 tons at load draft, and a speed of 21 knots per hour.

The payment in cash of a note, draft, etc.

To write or print on the face of (a draft, bill, etc.); as, to enface drafts with memoranda.

at a distance from each other, without the intervention of money, by exchanging orders or drafts, called bills of exchange. These may be drawn in one country and payable in another, in which case they are called foreign bills; or they may be drawn and made payable in the same country, in which case they are called inla…

ase or chamber, to create a blast of air (fan blast) for forge purposes, or a current for draft and ventilation; a fanner. -- Fan cricket (Zoöl.), a mole cricket. -- Fan light (Arch.), a window over a door; -- so called from the semicircular form and radiating sash bars of those windows which are set in the circular…

visible fiber embodied in the surface of; -- applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc.

A strong, light-draft, Dutch merchant vessel, carrying a mainmast and a mizzenmast, and a large gaff mainsail.

cipial, as in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, wheat, etc. N. Biddle. Margin draft (Masonry), a smooth cut margin on the face of hammer-dressed ashlar, adjacent to the joints. -- Margin of a course (Arch.), that part of a course, as of slates or shingles, which is not covered by the course immediately abo…

the notes or acceptances given by merchants for goods bought, or received on consignment; drafts on merchants for goods sold or consigned. McElrath.

commercial paper transferable by sale or delivery and indorsement, as bills of exchange, drafts, checks, and promissory notes.

To set down in musical characters. To note a bill or draft, to record on the back of it a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary.

A sheet-iron cover for articles in a leer or annealing arch, to protect them from drafts. Omnibus bill, a legislative bill which provides for a number of miscellaneous enactments or appropriations. [Parliamentary Cant, U.S.] -- Omnibus box, a large box in a theater, on a level with the stage and having communication wi…

To make drafts upon or against, in excess of the proper amount or limit.

es), a short, flaring pipe surrounding the blast nozzle in the smoke box, to equalize the draft.

A plan proposed; a draft of a proposed measure; a project.

Receiving ship, one on board of which newly recruited sailors are received, and kept till drafted for service.

To draw again; to make a second draft or copy of; to redraft.