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To take away; to detract; to withdraw; -- usually with from. If we did derogate from them whom their industry hath made great. Hooker. It derogates little from his fortitude, while it adds infinitely to the honor of his humanity. Burke.

To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle.

To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw. Dryden.

th sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.

e of a person or a body of men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected. Detail drawing, a drawing of the full size, or on a large scale, of some part of a building, machine, etc. -- In detail, in subdivisions; part by part; item; circumstantially; with particularity.

To take away; to withdraw. Detract much from the view of the without. Sir H. Wotton.

A taking away or withdrawing. [Obs.] The detraction of the eggs of the said wild fowl. Bacon.

Tending to detractor draw. [R.]

ith, dew. A dewy mist Went and watered all the ground. Milton. When dewy eve her curtain draws. Keble.

A right line drawn from one angle to another not adjacent, of a figure of four or more sides, and dividing it into two parts.

A figure or drawing made to illustrate a statement, or facilitate a demonstration; a plan.

A drawing instrument, combining a protractor and scale.

The art or science of descriptive drawing; especially, the art or science of drawing by mechanical appliances and mathematical rule.

ed by the opposite boundaries; a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords drawn in a curve.

Diametral surface (Geom.), any line or surface which bisects a system of parallel chords drawn in a curve or surface. -- Diametral planes (Crystal.), planes in which two of the axes lie.

To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth. "If you diaper on folds." Peacham.

The act of drawing apart; separation.

plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing.

A type of internal-combustion engine in which the air drawn in by the suction stroke is so highly compressed that the heat generated ignites the fuel (usually crude oil), the fuel being automatically sprayed into the cylinder under pressure. The Diesel engine has a very high thermal efficiency.

Without dimensions; marking dimensions or the limits. Who can draw the soul's dimensive lines Sir J. Davies.