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The quality or state of being brawny.

Having large, strong muscles; muscular; fleshy; strong. "Brawny limbs." W. Irving.

A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds. Caraways, or biscuits, or some other [comfits]. Cogan.

See Caraway.

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

The crop of a bird.

of the family Astacidæ, resembling the lobster, but smaller, and found in fresh waters. Crawfishes are esteemed very delicate food both in Europe and America. The North American species are numerous and mostly belong to the genus Cambarus. The blind crawfish of the Mamoth Cave is Cambarus pellucidus. The common Europe…

A Crawford peach; a well-known freestone peach, wich yellow flesh, first raised by Mr. William Crawford, of New Jersey.

To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and kness; to creep. A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another. Grew.

A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.

One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile.

Creepy. [Colloq.]

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.

d, 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.

A single cut with a knife.

Capable of being drawn.

it, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature. The avaridrawback from the wisdom ascribed to him. Hallam.

thed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train.

A machine in which strips of metal are drawn through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; -- also called drawing bench.