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The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a muscle.

Serving to draw; pulling; attracting; as, tractive power.

That which draws, or is used for drawing.

as conceived as described by the motion of one end of a tangent line as the other end was drawn along the given line.

To draw away; to seduce. [Obs.] I can forget the weakness Of the traduced soldiers. Beau. & Fl.

To draw or drag, as along the ground. And hung his head, and trailed his legs along. Dryden. They shall not trail me through their streets Like a wild beast. Milton. Long behind he trails his pompous robe. Pope.

To draw along; to trail; to drag. In hollow cube Training his devilish enginery. Milton.

An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil.

ay laid in the streets of a town or city, on which cars for passengers or for freight are drawn by horses; a horse railroad.

To remove from one substance or surface to another; as, to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone. Tomlinson.

barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like. Men drinken and the travers draw anon. Chaucer. And the entrance of the king, The first traverse was drawn. F. Beaumont.

Relating to, or drawn from, trees. [Obs.] Spenser. Treen liquors, especially that of the date. Evelyn.

To draw or haul a load, as oxen.

ame of a table. Trestle board, a board used by architects, draughtsmen, and the like, for drawing designs upon; -- so called because commonly supported by trestles. -- Trestle bridge. See under Bridge, n.

A steel cylinder round which metal is drawn in the process of forming tubes. Tomlinson.

To draw in outline, as with a pen; to delineate or distinguish without color, as arms, etc., in heraldry. They forget that they are in the statutes: . . . there they are tricked, they and their pedigrees. B. Jonson.

OF or pertaining to rotary motion; having power to draw out or turn round. "By art trochilic." Camden.

To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.

A narrow cart that is pushed by hand or drawn by an animal. [Eng.]

A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace. [Written also trompe, and trombe.]