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iness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc. Theologians and moralists . . . talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it. Landor.

A housebreaker or thief. [Obs.] Old Play (1631).

The act of speaking with a drawl; a drawl. -- Drawl"ing*ly, adv. Bacon.

Same as Drawbar (b).

A kind of loom used in weaving figured patterns; -- called also drawboy.

See Draw, v. t. & i. Drawn butter, butter melter and prepared to be used as a sort of gravy. -- Drawn fowl, an eviscerated fowl. -- Drawn game or battle, one in which neither party wins; one equally contested. -- Drawn fox, one driven from cover. Shak. -- Drawn work, ornamental work made by drawing out threads from…

A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet. Crabb.

dened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.

A rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car, and bears the pull required to draw the train.

See Drawing knife.

The spring to which a drawbar is attached.

Drawn in air; imaginary. This is the air-drawn dagger. Shak.

To copy, as a design or painting, by tracing with a pencil on oiled paper, or other transparent substance.

Sucked by cubs. [R.] This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch. Shak.

The act of drawing after, or pursuing, deer with a dog. Cowell.

To sew up, so nicely that the seam is not perceived; to renter. Marryat.

One who finedraws.

Drawn out with too much subtilty; overnice; as, finedrawn speculations.

Drawn in.

Extended to a great length. The cicadæ hushed their long-drawn, ear-splitting strains. G. W. Cable.