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ounded; exaltation of feelings or purposes. Her peerless height my mind to high erection draws up. Sidney

Drawn outside of; -- used to designate a circle that touches one of the sides of a given triangle, and also the other two sides produced.

A piece of furniture used as a writing table, commonly with drawers, pigeonholes, and the like; a secretary or writing desk.

mau.] Eskimo dog (Zoöl.), one of breed of large and powerful dogs used by the Eskimos to draw sledges. It closely resembles the gray wolf, with which it is often crossed.

To remove; to banish; to withdraw; to avoid; to eloign. [Obs.] From worldly cares he did himself esloin. Spenser.

To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and distinctly evidenced. Glanvill. Had we . . . estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent. Hooker.

To subject to etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as a plate of metal. I was etching a plate at the beginning of 1875. Hamerton.

lar structure. -- Etching needle, a sharp-pointed steel instrument with which lines are drawn in the ground or varnish in etching. -- Etching stitch (Needlework), a stitch used outline embroidery.

The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting duty, whether true or false; rules of practice in respect to a single class of human actions; as, political or social ethics; medical ethics. The completeness and consistency of its moral…

To withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress. The Norwegians were forced to evacuate the country. Burke.

Act of drawing out ; exhaustion. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

aratus for excavating under water, in which silt and loose material mixed with water are drawn up by a pump. Knight.

vention of money, by exchanging orders or drafts, called bills of exchange. These may be drawn in one country and payable in another, in which case they are called foreign bills; or they may be drawn and made payable in the same country, in which case they are called inland bills. The term bill of exchange is often abb…

those of the church of England . . . the public exercise of their religion. Addison. To draw him from his holy exercise. Shak.

To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapor; as, the sum exhales the moisture of the earth.

To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

One who, or that which, exhausts or draws out.

Exodus; withdrawal. [Obs.] The time of the Jewish exody. Sir M. Hale.

The enlargement of the ship mathematically from a model or drawing to the full or building size, in the process of construction. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Reflexively, as To expatriate one's self: To withdraw from one's native country; to renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born, and become a citizen of another country.