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rsed, and then taken up. Bouvier. The rate of reëxchange is regulated with respect to the drawer, at the course of exchange between the place where the bill of exchange was payable, and the place where it was drawn. Reëxchange can not be cumulated. Walsh.

A drawn game; specif. (Trente et quarante),

n to temperance. Shak. To rein in or rein up, to check the speed of, or cause to stop, by drawing the reins.

To strive or struggle against anything; to make resistance; to draw back; to feel or show repugnance or reluctance. Apt to reluct at the excesses of it [passion]. Walton.

Sympathetic sorrow; pity; compassion. Curse on the unpardoning prince, whom tears can draw To no remorse. Dryden. But evermore it seem'd an easier thing At once without remorse to strike her dead. Tennyson.

fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment. The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough. Clarendon.

A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.

which an aqueduct or rising main delivers water, and from which a distributing reservoir draws its supply.

Unwilling to go on; obstinate in refusing to move forward; stubborn; drawing back. Restive or resty, drawing back, instead of going forward, as some horses do. E. Philips (1658). The people remarked with awe and wonder that the beasts which were to drag him [Abraham Holmes] to the gallows became restive, and went back.…

To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to curb. Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose! Shak.

To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively. He . . . retired himself, his wife, and children into a forest. Sir P. Sidney. As when the sun is present all the year, And never doth retire his golden ray. Sir J. Davies.

To trace over again, or renew the outline of, as a drawing; to draw again.

To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle.

CApable of retraction; capable of being drawn back or up; as, the claws of a cat are retractile.

The act of retracting, or drawing back; the state of being retracted; as, the retraction of a cat's claws.

In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel. (b) (Surg.)

To draw back; to retract. [Obs.] Harvey.

To draw back; to withdraw. [Obs.] Spenser.

A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal. "Revulsions and pullbacks." SSir T. Brovne.

; gay; merry; delightful to the view, as a landscape. In such cases the sublimity must be drawn from the other sources, with a strict caution, howewer, against anything light and riant. Burke.