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and the travers draw anon. Chaucer. And the entrance of the king, The first traverse was drawn. F. Beaumont.

Relating to, or drawn from, trees. [Obs.] Spenser. Treen liquors, especially that of the date. Evelyn.

A steel cylinder round which metal is drawn in the process of forming tubes. Tomlinson.

To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.

A narrow cart that is pushed by hand or drawn by an animal. [Eng.]

A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace. [Written also trompe, and trombe.]

and other heavy articles. Goods were conveyed about the town almost exclusively in trucks drawn by dogs. Macaulay.

A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse. By twisting the stick the compression is made sufficiently painful to keep the animal quiet during a slight surgical operation. J. H. Walsh.

ularly called the bag in cows and other quadrupeds. See Mamma. A lioness, with udders all drawn dry. Shak.

vering the flood, Under amazement of their hideous change. Milton. Under arms. (Mil.) (a) Drawn up fully armed and equipped. (b) Enrolled for military service; as, the state has a million men under arms. -- Under canvas. (a) (Naut.) Moved or propelled by sails; -- said of any vessel with her sail set, but especially o…

or preserving the ashes of the dead after cremation, and anciently for holding lots to be drawn. A rustic, digging in the ground by Padua, found an urn, or earthen pot, in which there was another urn. Bp. Wilkins. His scattered limbs with my dead body burn, And once more join us in the pious urn. Dryden.…

by the usage between different countries, when a bill of exchange is payable; as, a bill drawn on London at one usance, or at double usance.

A stab of iron welded to the side of a forging, as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging. Contingent, or Springing, use (Law), a use to come into operation on a future uncertain event. -- In use. (a) In employment; in customary practice observance. (b) In heat; --…

An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy. The long-drawn aisle and fretted vault. Gray.

A small, two-wheeled vehicle, like a Bath chair, to be drawn or pushed by a boy or man. [R.]

A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise.

Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form. In warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. Milton.

A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of water.

harness are fastened, and by which a carriage, a plow, or other implement or vehicle, is drawn; a whiffletree; a swingletree; a singletree. See Singletree. [People] cut their own whippletree in the woodlot. Emerson.

so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or less circular motion caused by its flowing in an irregular channel, by the coming together of opposing currents, or the like.