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ed over the side of a vessel to lessen her leeway when closehauled, by giving her greater draught.

Oblivion; a draught of oblivion; forgetfulness.

ne is wound. -- Log slate. (Naut.) See Log board (above). -- Rough log (Naut.), a first draught of a record of the cruise or voyage. -- Smooth log (Naut.), a clean copy of the rough log. In the case of naval vessels this copy is forwarded to the proper officer of the government. -- To heave the log (Naut.), to cast…

One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.

To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of. [He] proceeded to mingle another draught. Hawthorne.

Fresh, or new. [Obs.] "Shoes full moist and new." "A draught of moist and corny ale." Chaucer.

A sip or small draught; esp., a draught of intoxicating liquor; a dram.

re, the plastering of the inside of flues, intended to give a smooth surface and help the draught.

One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman.

To impregnate or mix with a love potion; as, to philter a draught.

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.

One who draws up or forms pleas; the draughtsman of pleas or pleadings in the widest sense; as, a special pleader.

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

wland to the church. Cowell. -- Plow beam, that part of the frame of a plow to which the draught is applied. See Beam, n., 9. -- Plow Monday, the Monday after Twelth Day, or the end of Christmas holidays. -- Plow staff. (a) A kind of long-handled spade or paddle for cleaning the plowshare; a paddle staff. (b) A plow…

The clevis or draught iron of a plow.

A draught. "Potations pottle deep." Shak.

A draught; a dose; usually, a draught or dose of a liquid medicine. Shak.

ket for holding fruit. He had a . . . pottle of strawberries in one hand. Dickens. Pottle draught, taking a pottle of liquor at one draught. [ Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished copy. [Obs.] Shak.

natural numbers; a logarithmic scale. -- Proportional scales, compasses, dividers, etc. (Draughting), instruments used in making copies of drawings, or drawings of objects, on an enlarged or reduced scale.