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thereon he lay. Spenser. I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room. Bacon. Against this fire do I shrink up. Shak. And shrink like parchment in consuming fire. Dryden. All the boards did shrink. Coleridge.

To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin shrivels with age; -- often with up.

To draw up or contract (the shoulders), especially by way of expressing dislike, dread, doubt, or the like. He shrugs his shoulders when you talk of securities. Addison.

r side. (Fort.) See Exterior, and Illust. of Ravelin. -- Interior side (Fort.), the line drawn from the center of one bastion to that of the next, or the line curtain produced to the two oblique radii in front. H. L. Scott. -- Side by side, close together and abreast; in company or along with. -- To choose sides, to…

In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame or the like, the open space, the opening.

The harness of a drawloom.

A drawloom.

or; to show an easier or shorter process for doing or making. The collection of duties is drawn to a point, and so far simplified. A. Hamilton. It is important, in scientific pursuits, to be caitious in simplifying our deductions. W. Nicholson.

The length of a perpendicular drawn from one extremity of an arc of a circle to the diameter drawn through the other extremity.

A drawling or monotonous tone, as of a badly executed song.

To draw into the mouth; to suck up; as, a bee sips nectar from the flowers.

To convey, or draw off, by means of a siphon, as a liquid from one vessel to another at a lower level.

To perch; to rest with the feet drawn up, as birds do on a branch, pole, etc.

ing room, an apartment where the members of a family usually sit, as distinguished from a drawing-room, parlor, chamber, or kitchen.

te from which a gun barrel or pipe is made by bending and welding the edges together, and drawing the thick tube thus formed.

To draw the outline or chief features of; to make a rought of.

iarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry.

lful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as, skillful at the organ; skillful in drawing. And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentations to wailing. Amos v. 16.

To draw or serve, as drink. [Obs.] Bacchus the wine them skinketh all about. Chaucer. Such wine as Ganymede doth skink to Jove. Shirley.

Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended; as, a slack rope.