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First outlook or appearance. Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn. Gray.

Painted, drawn, sketched, or marked with a pencil.

Lines of white or black paint drawn along a mortar joint in a brick wall. Knight.

See 2d Pawn.

pective plane, the plane or surface on which the objects are delineated, or the picture drawn; the plane of projection; -- distinguished from the ground plane, which is that on which the objects are represented as standing. When this plane is oblique to the principal face of the object, the perspective is called obliqu…

ge (with or without a top), open, or having no side pieces, in front of the seat. It is drawn by one or two horses.

A revolving disk on which figures drawn in different relative attitudes are seen successively, so as to produce the appearance of an object in actual motion, as an animal leaping, etc., in consequence of the persistence of the successive visual impressions of the retina. It is often arranged so that the figures may be…

A condition of the penis in which the prepuce can not be drawn back so as to uncover the glans penis.

One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn.

To pledge or pawn. [Obs.]

The act of pledging or pawning.

Pledging, pawning. [R.]

A pledge or pawn.

An indoor modification of lawn tennis played with small bats, or battledores, and a very light, hollow, celluloid ball, on a large table divided across the middle by a net.

ted longitudinally, for making the pinions of clocks and watches. It is formed by being drawn through holes of the shape required for the leaves or teeth of the pinions.

A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything, as of a building; a graphic representation; a diagram.

g a species of bailment; also, that which is so delivered or deposited; something put in pawn.

A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.

A well-known implement, drawn by horses, mules, oxen, or other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining plow. Where fern succeeds ungrateful to the plow. Dryden.

tery (Elec.), a voltaic battery so arranged that the plates can be plunged into, or withdrawn from, the exciting liquid at pleasure.