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To draw out; to extract. [R.] "He must the teeth outdraw." Gower.

To exaggerate; to overdo.

To draw again; to make a second draft or copy of; to redraft.

To draw or delineate rapidly and by way of a first sketch.

Drawn out from a heated solid bar, as by a process of spiral rolling which first hollows the bar and then expands the cavity by forcing the bar over a pointed mandrel fixed in front of the rolls; - - said of a weldless tube.

One whose business it is to extract teeth with instruments; a dentist. Shak.

To draw aside or open; to draw back. Angels undrew the curtain of the throne. Young.

To draw up. [R.] Milton.

In water-color painting, work in, or a work done chiefly in, washes, as distinguished from that done in stipple, in body color, etc.

One who draws metal into wire.

To form (a piece of metal) into wire, by drawing it through a hole in a plate of steel.

To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like. Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything. Hooker.

The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.

One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.

A room for retirement from another room, as from a dining room; a drawing-room. A door in the middle leading to a parlor and withdrawing-room. Sir W. Scott.

The act of withdrawing; withdrawal. W. Belsham.

A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc. [Obs.]

To estrange; to withdraw. [Obs.]

To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.

To draw or conduct away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part. [Obs.] If we abduce the eye unto either corner, the object will not duplicate. Sir T. Browne.